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- • •1. : A Via ,.. r . • '~. F 4, , ' , ilia. .3c eveted to make, possibly suc ec.l in one or oilier. He could not give credit to poss:bility cf the enemy% landing any where ; country united and prepared as we were, need Jot txpeEt an attempt to invade us ; nor could 'ur coasts be approached in any part without the utmost danger, and almost certainty of fai lure of success to the enemy. So far was he front coincidis in the childish apprehensions, which !he speech, to which be alluded, expressed, that he would, for the sake of argument, admit for a :no anent, that the enemy did effect a landing, nay, more, that he made his way, in spite of all our forces and all cur endeavours, that he reached this rich and luxurious metropolis, laid it in ashes, put a momentary end to trade and commerce, made bankrupts of all wealthy Jews and, brokers in 'Change, and annihilated the three per cents. still he would not abandon himself to despair, and think the cause a but cause. lie should, even then, feel hope, from a consciousness that there remained much worth fighting for, and that the spirit of the people would stil curt itself, and with renewed energy and undaunted valor pursue the foe, till they drove him out of their couptrv. I promised you, my Lords, at my opening, said his Lordship, that I should not detain you long, and I will keep my word. I will only add, Let us hear no more then of these argu ments of our weakness, these proclan►ations of alarm and terror. Let no man assume a dastardly feeling, but face the danger, which, notwithstand• ing what I have said, I by no means despise. or un derrate. It is great and urgent, most undoubtedly, but meet it like men, and you have nothing to ap „prebend. Be lint true to yourselves, and you are invincible: shrink from the danger like trem'aling cowards, and you arc ruined ! The question was then put, and the Bill passed with amendments. The Irish Militia Pay Bill then passed the Com mittee, and was afterwards read a third time. Another Bill, relative to the Committee of Ire land, also passed through the same stages. Acljorrned at six o'clock till ten to-morrow, when the House meets to receive. the Army Re serve Bill hack from the House of Commons, as it is to receive the Royal Assent, with the two Militia Bills, and a private Bill, by Commission. HOUSE OF COMMONS. TVESDAY, JULY 5. General GASCOIGNE gave notice, that he should on Monday move for a Committee to inquire into the State of the Trade cf this Country, particularly the Import Trade, and, also for ascertaining the be/ mode of relieving any temporary embar rassment that might clist. The reason he gave so tong a notice was, to afford an opportunity to Mi ristvrs, if they thought proper, to propose some measure upon the subjett. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that Government would bring forward a pro position upon this subjed as soon as convenient, and lie hoped no Gentleman would bring it forward prematurely. General GASCOIGNE replied, that if Ministers would please to bring forward some proposition upon dae sai)jed, he should withdraw his notice. The CIIANCE.I.LOR of the EXCHEQUER rejoined, that Ministers would be governed in their eondua by the -,tate of the country ; but he trusted there would be no occasion to bring such a measure forward. General GASCOIGNE then fixed his notice for Monday. FAST INDIA DOCK BILL. On the Motion for bringing up the Report of the East India Dock Bill, Sir WILLIAM PULTENEY objeded to it ; he disapproved of many of the provisions of the Bill, which he said had been brought in in a clandestine manner, and contrary to the forms of the House. Sir F. BARING defended the Bill ; he said it was not brought in to promote the interest of indi viduals, but with a view of producing great public advantage ; h would benefit the public revenue ; it would afford protedion to trade, and would prevent plunder ; and, as a proof of the merits of the Bill, there was but one solitary Petition against it, from a single indiv;dual . Mr. C ALC RAFT said, if this Bill was calculated to benefit the public revenue, he would be the last man to oppose it. If these Docks were intended for general benefit, why were they not in a situation in which all East India ships could derive benefit from them ? It was impossible that many of the large East Indiamen could get into these Docks without breaking bulk, and getting rid of a part of their cargo. He was sure that there were situations within the Port of London, in which Docks might have been made to accommodate all the East India shipping . Sir 1 . 'METCALF enured at length into the grounds upon which the Bill had been brought for , ward, and contended, that if the East India Com pany, if all the persons concerned in this Trade, if all the persons who were best acquainted with the subject, were satisfied with the benefits that would result from this Bill, he hoped it would outweigh the opposition of the two lion. Members who had opposed it, however reputable they might be. A short conversation ensued between Mr. At kins, Mr. Dent, and Mr. Vansittart. The Report was then brought up, after which Mr. Calcraft proposed an amendment, the object of which was, that I ndiamen that were obliged to break bulk in Long Reach should not be obliged to pay' the Dock Duties on the whole of their tonnage. This amendment was opposed by Sir F. Baring and Sir T. Metcalf. The Gallery was cleared for a di- v; ,ion, brit we understand it less rejeacii without a division. While strangers were excluded, we understood that the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved that the House should go into a Committee on the In come Bill. When we were admitted, we found Mr. Alderman Coombe Gpposing the Speaker's leaving the Chair. He said he had been instruaed by his Constituents to oppose the Bill, and he should cer tainly oppose it. because he considered it as unjust and partial in its operation. The LORD MAYOR said, he was disposed to pay great respea to the instru&ions of his Consti tuents, but in must recolith that he was a Repre sentative of the whole Country as well as of the City. He thought it would be right to know the provisions of the Bill, and the nature of the modifications that were to 11# proposed, before au opposition was exude to the Bill.—He certainly should attend most sedu. lously to the interests of his Constituents, and should in a Committee do all in his power to make it as egad aspossible in its operation. ••••• - 4, Ste 30 El N AI;DERSON said, the Honse did not yet know what were the provisions of the Bill, there fore Le ehould vote for the Speaker leaving the Chair. Mr. BASTARD said, he Iwas one of those who thought that the country had better perish than the Income Tax be laid on, but he wished to know to what extent land was to be taxed, before he gave his consent to the Speaker's leaving the Chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that even if he gave an unftvourable answer to ,the Hon. Gentleman's question, it would not justify him in opposing the Speaker's leaving the Chair, be cause it was open toany Gentlemantopropose amend ments in the Committee. His answer to the Hon. Gentleman's question was this : the proprietor of land could not be taxed more than 5 per cent. for the land he let to his tenant ; but if he united the charaeters of landlord and tenant, and kept his land in his own hands, he would pay in both situations, viz. Is. in the pound as landlord, and 9d. as tenant. In reply to what had fallen from the worthy Alder man, he said, that when the Income Tax was brought forward, lie gave it.his support, because he consider ed it as a wise measure, and he was far from wish ing to possess any popularity from having pro posed to repeal it, because he, upon that occasion, stated, that that measure, or some modification of it, must be resorted to again at the commence ment of a war. He never considered that it was impassible to soften that measure ; but until he had' looked into it, with the best assistance he could pro cure, he was not aware of the means which might be adopted to render it palatable to the feelings of the people. The difference between the present Bill and the Income Tax was not in the general priaciple, but in the mode of colleding it, because he hoped the plan now proposed would prevent the necessity of disclosure. It was proposed to make a distinftion between that species of property which was visible, such as land and money Which was lent upon interest, and that species of property which arose from trade professions. With regard to the latter, it was very necessary to avoid the necessity of disclosure as much as pos sible, so as not to give an opening to fraud. lie flattered himself that having bestowed great atten tion to this subject, that a mode would be suggested by which the necessity of disclosure would, in a great degree, be prevented ; but this would be a •matter of future consideration. Another advantage attending this measure was, that it would be more simple, and less inconvenient in its operation than the Income Tax. There were some of the leading features of the measure. His wish was, that the House would permit the Amendments to he made pee . fielea, that then the Bill should be printed ; all he asked was, that the measure should be fully and fairly examined. He by no means flattered himself that it was possible, in a measure of such magnitude and importance as the present, to render this Bill completely unobjectionable : he was afraid, that even after he had had the benefit of the wisdom of that House, the measure would he at tended with serious difficulties and objedions. The House, therefore, would not think of rendering the Bill perfed, but of rendering it as perfect as possible. He did not believe that it was the wish of the City of London, that while the rest of the com munity was called upon to contribute so largely, that they should not contribute their fair proportion: he was sure such could not be the wish of the City of London, and he trustee. that the Worthy Al derman would lend his assistance in the Com mittee to render this measure as unobjeetionahie, and at the same time as effeaual as it was possible ; because unless that Honourable Member was pre pared to suggest some other mode by which the Ci tizens of London, - and the trading part of the com munity in general could be called upon to bear their share in the general hurthen, he would not, he was sure, give an unqualified opposition to this mea sure. After the measures that had been adopted, and the large stuns that had been raised, the House would not do their duty if they were to stop there, and not to call upon other classes of the community for their share of the contribution, who were nct so immediately affected by the measures which had al ready been agreed to. Mr. BASTARD explained. Mr. GREGOR said, he did not mean to objeft to this measure altogether, though he thought some parts of it were very objedionable, and particularly that the Tax upon Land was one-ninth in the pound, which was larger than the tax upon other species of property. The ATTORNEY GENERAL replied, that land was not taxed at Is. 9d. in the pound, but the tax went upon this principle, that land produced two incomes, one to the landlord and another to the tenant, and that was the principle upon which the tax was founded, which evidently was not a tax of Is. 9d. upon land. Sir Robert Buxton, Lord A. Hamilton, Sir Francis Baring, 1)r. Lawrence, Mr. Kinnaird, and Mr. W. Smith, spoke to the question. Lord HAWKESBURY said, he should rather have chosen to defer the discussion on this subject to a future day, but he did not wish the speech of the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Smith) to go itch un answered. The Honourable Gentleman had laid down two principles, in which he perfeetly agreed, that no tax could be perfectly equal, and that it was their duty to make it as equal as possible. Of these principles, however, the lion. Gentleman seemed afterwards to have lost sight. Though an Income Tax was unequal, it was not more so than any other tax. The Hon. Gentleman had approved of the idea of raising a large part of the Supplies within the year ; but whatever might be his opinion, or the opinion of any one respelling that subject, with reference to the inequality or equality of a 'l'ax, the effect was the same ; as whether ten millions or. one were to be raised within the year, the principle was the same. Upon this principle he would ask, whether a Tax on Income could be considered as bearing heavier upon the community, than taxes upon consumption ? He knew that it had wisely been endeavoured to impose Taxes upon Cor.sump- Lion, but that power wets now much limited. The Bill was then ordered to be printed and taken into further consideration on Monday. The SECRETARY at WAR moved the Order of the Day for taking into further consideration the English Militia Pay Bill.--:fhe Dill was recommit ted immediately. In the Committee, Mr. Bastard said, that with re gard to the preetice which was to be the result of this Bill, he hoped That the British Militia would not learn the whole Austrian discipline. There was a part of that discipline which neither the officers of the ecitish Militia nor the.amen understood, and he 1 .• IMO lan hoped they weuldne% er nnilerstand is—that was to re treat. He hoped as had been said already, that %dile an hundred English Militia-men were together, they would never retreat one inch ; they might advance at command, but never retreat.—Many of us might fall, but if this was our determination, we must be at last successful. We wanted no instrations to dispose of our courage any way but to exert it.— Austrians might retreat, Austrians might be de feated, Austnans might be disgraced, but the English must do neither, must tight until they defeat their enemy, they must fight while a man remains of them to he opposed to a foe.— Such a spirit would be invincible, and such a spirit the people of England possessed, and would chew on a fit occasion for sheaving it—that was his opi nion. He then proceeded to make some observa tions on the liill as it related to the condition of Ad jutants and other Officers. 'Phis produced a short conversation between Mr. Bastard, Mr. Dennis Browne, and the Secretary at War, after which the Bill passed the Committee. Adjourned at nine o'clock. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6. The 3 per Cents. Reduced, were yesterday morning so low as 51, and the Omaium was ata discount of 71. From this state, however, they recovered consider ably in the course of the day, and the Omnium, to wards the close of the Market, was down at 51. The most plausible cause for this change was a rumour of a change in the intended financial arrangement of the Minister. It was generally stated that the Bank had re monstrated against the tax on dividends, and declared their determination to relinquish the management of the funds rather than submit to collet this tax. It was also generally understood, that the Minister, yielding to the arguments of the Directors, has given up the idea ofcolleaing the Tax at the Bank, and some persons even ventured to affirm, that it was his intention to abandon the Income Tax in toto. The credit attach ed to these reports, may be fairly presumed to be the cause of the favourable change in the Market, as the weight of the Income Tax has been ac knowledged a principal cause of the late depression of the Funds. This simple circumstance affords a curious view of the public mind. The menace of invasion becomes every hour louder and louder. It is reverberated from every corner, and thousands, who thought it yesterday an impossibility, regard it this day as a practicable enterprize. If then inva sion were the cause of the fall, we might expel that the depression of the funds would keep pace with the probability of the attempt. Yesterday, how ever, the funds rose in the face of the increased alarm of invasion, upon the solitary hope of the abandonment, or alleviation of a burthensome tax. What are the privations accompanying such a tax, compared with the disadvantages that must attend a successful landing upon our shores ? We answer nothing. The inference is therefore obvious. The public consider invasion as a chimera, or a desperate undertaking. We yesterday received the Paris papers of the Ist inst. They contain the disgusting details of the slavish adulation paid, upon his tour, to the Corsican pigmy. The Oilicial Journal, however, in its faithful report, takes care to omit the salute of the two English frigates in the road of Boulogne. The new levies will not be kept distind from the regular army, and trained at separate depots. They are to be joined with the regular regiments now at home. As soon as the ballot takes place, and the men are mustered, they are to be sent off instantly to the head-quarters of the nearest regiments,with which, according to the most convenient proportions, they will be brigaded. The Cabinet Council last week resolved to issue orders for impressing landsmen with vigour, the im press began on Saturday night and has been con tinued without intermission. All persons apparent ly idle or disorderly were seized, and on Saturday night many tradesmen were of course found in that character.—All the police offices had press warrants sent to them, and they were very a6tive. Upwards of ! 000 men were picked up in twenty-four hours. In consequence of the representations made to the French Government by those traitors who have re nounced the rights of Englishmen, and enrolled themselves among the slaves of the Corsican, the fol iow ing modifications have taken place in the decree for the imprisonment of the English :—l . The artists and artizans, employed in French manufactories, stztll not be obliged to quit the commune where those establishments are situated, if the principals claim them, and engage to answer for them. 2. Such ' Englishmen asliave established manufactories or com mercial houses in rural communes, or small towns, in which there is no military Commandant or Officer of Gendarmerie, may, after submitting themselves to the Officer of the nearest city, return to their manu factories or commercial houses. 3. Those English men who, since the peace, and before the declaration of war, manifested an intention of establishing them selves in France, and of becoming French Citizens, and who have complied with the formalities requisite for that purpose, arc not comprised in the disposi tions of the decree. ,4**4 . wer7 • -4' • 40 1 FASIIION*. LADY HEATi f cOTE Gave a CI and Rout on Monday evening last at live. house in Grobveuor-Nuare, to nearly three hundred persons of distinction) after the rout her Ladyship entertained a seleA party of friends to a selen sup. per; among the company were noticed the follow. ing Prince E•terhare, Pnrtugucee Ataboutdor. liquibun and St Alban's. F.arle—Pcity Stmillope, Winehelsea, and Carli4le. Visrounte—Lowtt,cr, Forbes, Fa:.iioatli, Morpeth, chibbnruk, and Mountry. Lord —A Cordon, St. If !en's, Arnhem, Aurkfrinrt, Ftentincl:, C Manner-, Valiers, o,s,:liton, G. L. Goe-r• fiorinzdmi. . Generals—At. John, Tarleton, Gresvenot. CO S •0 1 1 . - . 11)0fr, and Coniirr. MeArs..a-Levrea, 0. Hunte.r, Dennison, I'. Chap'.ain, FAer Plattnimt, HneAder, Duff, Waldesrace, Delniy, A. S m i th , Lauretic.-, Sl o ane, Perry, Hale, Dickens, Latouch r , P iers : point, Churchill, Talbot, Micklewhite, Clinlinomfelry, main, !oasis, Beekford, St. G. Caulfield, Lloyd, Acheson, 0,4 Brotnnell. Duchesses—Northumberland, Rutland, Bolton, and St it. b.% IV/archlonesses—flownshire and Hertford. CourinNscs---Wald,..grave, Galknvay, Carbele, Etnzace, Liverpool, Euston, Chatham, and Clare. Viscountewev—bowther and Castlereagh Latlics—L. Manners, three Perm, Clive, A. Wyndhint, M. Waltlegrave, S. Stewart, Howard, De Clifford, C. E ham, B uee, T. Viner, Pelham, Templeton, two GrevilL , M. Singleton, W Wombswell, Garlies, C. iggtt, Set m„u Cadogaii, C. Jenkinson, E. Monk, Corry, E Cross, C. ma, Dowager De Claud, ,M.Bentinck, C. Grevtlle, and H. Fitzgerald. Mi.stre.ses-t-R igby, Dickens Fielding, T. o.zplain, R. Smith, Thom MOM, Fitzherbea, 'Carleton, lelusteri, Smiti , St. G Caulfield, Freemantle. Misies—Mansers, Dick Fielding, Lowther, Cook Thompson, Hill, Pelham, Boseowen, Caton, Fitzroy, A og uot . , , Jeuiciusun, Munk, Croft, three Ferdyces,Harvey. Yesterday morning, soon after breakfast, his M. jEsr v, the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, and the Prino! , =e; SOPHI A and A.Ns LTA * attended by General GWYNNE,,, Major DECBROW, and Lady IC,I BELLA THYNNE, took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great Park. Her Mt.itsTv, the Princesses AUGUST• and ELIZABETH, attended by the .Marchioness of BAv and Daughter, and Countess of AYLESBC:RY, toik an airing to Frogmore. In the evening the Royal Family left Windsor for Kew. This day his MAJESTY will hold a Levee. On Monday the Corporation of Windsor voted an Address to His Majesty. We understand they would have voted it sooner, had it not been for the espe6tation of calling a meeting of the inhabitants, in which they were disappointed. On Sunday last, His Royal Highness the Duke of YoRK gave a very elegant Dinner at the Ship, at Weybridge, to a large party of Military Officers ; among the Company were General Dovtx, Genet-Al MACDONALD, Col. M'CLouD, Col. STEWART., Capt. TAYLOR, Mr. GREENWOOD, &c. The Parish of Snoring, in Norfolk, has offered to raise a corps of Volunteers, but it was feared the fellows might be disposed to slop upon duty. The Earl and Countess of BLICKiNCHAMSHIRE. leave town on Sunday next, for their seat in No:- folk. The Earl of CHOLMONDEL EV and Family leave town next week for Cholmondeley-Hall, Cheshire. from whence they proceed to their seat in Norfolk. The Right Hon. Mr. BE RESFOR D returned to town last night from the scat of Lord EA R LEY, where he has been for some days on a visit. The Army of Reserve Bill will fall lightly upon the mor•mill , nerr. While there are so many pretty girls out of employ, these gew-gaw gentlemen can easily find suls'iluicc. Lady PrUNLOCK F: removed last week to her new residence, 22, in Albemarle-street. The PRINCE of WALLS left town on Monday for Brighton. A beautiful young Duchess lately ordered a Lori', he in Long-Acre. The Duke came next day and fondly countermanded it, being apprehensive that her Grace might catch cold in an open car riage. _ _ Fourteen waiters were taken on Monday by a press-gang, at a house of call. Upon their arri sal at the tender, the sailors made a gib-sail of the t0,,,./5 found in their pockets. All the stiff and coy old maids have expressed their readiness to enter the army of reserve. The Earl of MoupursoßßlS gave yesterday an elegant Dinner to a party of friends at Grove. The Earl of BERKELEY has arrived at Ports mouth, to take the command of the South Glou cester Militia at that place, and the Earl of Esser the Heretlmdchire, at Gosport. When .1E Li us CAISA It invaded England, he found the English ladies upon the shore na/ed and paintel ready to resist him. From the female migrations t the coast, BONAPARTE may exped a similar re‘ep tion. As the Earl and Countess of CHOI. MONDELET were walking, on Sunday evening, at the Basin, in the Green Park, near the upper gate leadin g f into Piccadilly, they were surrounded by a mo b o pick pockets. The Earl was fortunate enough to save his watch, but he lost ten guineas and a bunch cf leeys. Yesterday the LORD MAYOR was attended by the Master and Warden's of the Baker's Company. and having inspected the weekly returns of ear Mealweighers, ordered the price to be continued a; before, viz the quartern loaf wheaten 94d. and household 8:d. The unrivalled Dancing of Mrs. PARKER, in the new Local Divertisement at the Ca 'lc us, will eve: be considered a grand desideratum. The merit corn-, bined in the Piece, and the unprecede n ted loyalty of its sentiments, can never be equalled. We under stand it will be repeated this evening, with such s variety of Entertainments, as must prove the great popularity of that elegant Place of Sanuner Amuse ment. Early yesterday morning the room which Si JACOB AST LEY occupies at ..the Swan Hotel, Wes:- minster Bridge, was robbed of Sir JACOB'S pocket book, containing bank notes to the amount of 4011 and several articles of wearing apparel. Sir JAcos left his bed-room to go into the coffeeroom to breakfast, when his property was cafe, and on bic return to dress he discovered the robbery. 'The man who slept in the adjoining room to Sir limos is strongly suspe6ted to be the robber, an he left the house in a short tinae-attorsuddenk, wiJainittakins any. kasha. - .L. I P F7 THEATRE-RorAL, HArmARKET. THIS EVENING will be presented, (for the 9d tinic this Seaton) the Comedy of THE HEIR AT LAW. Daniel Amiss (alias Lord Dnberlv,) Mr. Bli.sset; Dick Dowlas, Mr. Palmer; Doctor Parielosi, (8d time) Mr. El liston ; Zekiel Homespun, Mr. Mathews. Deborah Dowlas (alias Lady Duberly) Mrs. Ward ; Caroline Dormer, Mtg. Goodall ; Cicely Homespun, Mrs. Gibbs. To which will be added (for the Lail Time this Season) the Grand Pautnmintical Ballet of OBI; Or, THREE-FINGER'D JACK.