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• 4 . irtssenlioating &satisfaction and discontent. Tb. se discontents were fomented, he believed, in Cork, and he knew them to be so in Waterford. The war re gulation, however, extended no farther than to the mode of colleting the Taxes, and not to the Taxes themselves. That regulation was shortly to expire, and it was not at present thought neceseary to re new it. Mr. BAG ELL said, he did not know before, that the war-tax had or was about to expire. The question was then put on the first resolution, the effed of which was, that the dnties an eaporta von and drawbacks, from the ports v inland, should cease and determine in Ireland, .xcept the export duties on sugar, and the it duties on malt. .0 Col. BAGWELL, before the decision was taken, wished to suggest, that there were a number of very respedable Gentlemen from different parts of Ireland, who had yet no opportunity of acquainting themselves with the sense of their constituents, or the different bearings of a measure so novel, as making these taxes permanent, some of which were impose ' d for temporary purposes in that country. They would, therefore, esteem it a favour if his Right Hon. Friend would delay his proposition for a few days, in order to give the means of the requisite information to be procured. There were very good reasons for thinking th tt the Tanners Tax was far from being elnitably imposed. The case was not the sane in Ireland as in England : in the latter country, duty taken upon weight was no more than a penny in the pound, whereas, in Ireland, the tax was taken by the foot, which rose to the amount of ,twopence-halfpenny in the pound. By these means rt happened, that leather was frequently exported, in the first place, from Ireland to Great Britain, rtfterwards re-shipped, re-exported to Ireland, and so as to come into the market against the tanners and leather-sellers in that country, at very great ad vantage. He declared, that his onlywish on this and every Other occasion was, that the transactions be tween the two countries should proceed in an anti cable and satisfadory manner, so as to leave no , nunds for discontent in any quarter. a• Mr. LATOUCHE also wished for some time longer to digest so important a measure, as that of making taxes, heretofore voted annually, permanent in Ireland. Mr. CORRY observed, that it was impossible felt any Gentleman to suppose it was an object to him to hurry through the House a measure which he felt to be of very great importance. if time was wanted four deliberation, he should agree to it cheer fully, hut Gentlemen must recollect that the Tares now proposed to be made permanent, were distinctly the same as those which had been constantly voted by the Irish Parliament. As to all that had been and, is regard to the Leather and Window Taxes, it amounted to nothing more than some rcgui.t tions as to the collection, and not to the Taxes them solves. He knew that in many places there were strong objections to the Window Duty, hut he fancied the fate was the same of any Tax that could be named ; and should it he repealed, it might be found very difficult to find any other to replace it. The Leather Tar, he observed, fairly considered, was never rinsed above a penny in the pound ; but he conceived the objedion to it to proceed from this circumstance, that persons in a small way, of no capital, and who paid no duty in Ireland. came hoe> the market to meet the regolar Tanners, and by the ire crier prices at which they could dispose of their goods, were enabled to undersel them. He (Mr. Corry) had proposed a remedy for that griev ance, for which he received the thanks of the Cor poration of the City of Dahlin. 'I he died of his reaulations was, that in the year when he produced Liss measure, the produce of the tax to the revenue was only t+,oool. ; and in the precedng year it was no less than .72.,a001. Ile had heard that the peo ple of ‘Vaterford were extremely discontented at the measure, about the time when he intended to em bark for England, and he delayed his voyage, pro posing to meet the parties concerned, in order to dis cuss tyre matter with diem. 'limy, however, thought proper to decline the meeting, and on consulting the tanners of Dublin, he found that the measure met with their complete approbof oa. They felt them selves happy in being relieved from the Visits of the revenue and custom-house officers, and the necessity of bribing them to make their situations in ore con venient. if any doubt remained, he was readv, and furnished with the menncof powingtothesatis6aion and content of the parties concerned the measures he brought forward. Ac to delaying his prepesi non, he had only to remind die Gentlemen who re cinestiol it, that it the Aa was not rcinferccd, the duties would expire on the `alth ino. and that he was only prevented front submitting the question stoner, by their absence front their parliamentary duties, as he wi , lied the subjaat to be canvassed and discussed by all those who might feel themselves concerned in it. Had they appeared sooner, ther would have had more time for dehberation, though it was at present pressing. The Alz vehicle related to the colledion, and upon which there seemed to be the present diversity of opinion, would not expire ',afore the 29t.h of September, which would of course leave a sufficient interval for any of them to enquire and consult the sense of their constituents. Mr. LEV. said, he was inoracted not to oppose tn: Leather Tax, which took away the advantages tt iii, it others had over the fai.Arader. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER expressed his hopes, that no Gentleman would press for further delay upon a subject, the principle of which had been very amply discussed in the last Session of Parliament, and dne notice given of the time when it was meant to be brought forward in the present. Every Member had, in that interval, time enough to make up his mind, and obtain any necessary information. In the meanwhile it should be considered, that the Bill which was to be brought 14, and which they were at liberty to debate, must pass before tl:e 25th of !starch, or the revenues of Ireland veere at an end. lie con fessed, that it was a matter of astonishment to him, how that revenue could have flourished under an nual grants, ,nnd he begged of the Committee to recollect, that should the ! louse fail of making Lledion Committees for five days, the revenues of Ireland would be in &lance. Colonel \ EREKER said, he had a right to take the part of his country on every occasion, and he did not see how any Member could think of calling Lim to question r it. After some farther conversation, the different re solutions were agreed to, and the report ordered to be received to-morrow. . Mr. WRAY moved, that the House should re . ; ' ' 91, ... -ry solve it k!llintl a . ;me 6f t.l) whole I 614 on ; the Irish Millar to-morTow. whith was agreed 1 k orn to. • The ATTORNEY GENERA! , of IRELAND (Right Hon. John Stewart), in consequence of the notices he gave yesterday, moved for leave to bring in a bill to prevent malicious cutting and wounding, called chalking in Ireland. And also for leave to bring in a bill for the better preventing the forgery of Bills of E::cliange in Ireland. Leave was given, and Committees appointed to prepare and bring up the s:ime. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved, that the Order of the Day for the Second Reading of the Bill for enabling his Majesty to settle .- Revenue on his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, be now read. The Order. was Read accordingly.—The Bill Read a Second Time, and on the Motion of the CnAsiero.tor of the ExenEtiota, referred to a Committee of the whole House to4rsorrow. On the Motion of the SECRETARY at WAR, the Order of the Day for the Third Reading of the Mutiny Biil, was read. The 14ill was then read a third time and passed, and ordered to be taken up to the Lords by Mr. Arrxannta. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved, that the Order of the Day, for the House l i resolving itself into a Committee of Supply, be now read. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved, that the Accounts of the Army Extra traordinaries be referred to the said Committee. Agreed to. * 'fi: House then resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House, Mr. ALEXANDER in the Chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it must be in the reculleeinn of the House, that in the last Session of Parliament, when he moved for the suns of one million six hundred thou sand pounds for the Army Extraordinaries, he ex pressed an apprehension that the expences attached to the support of an army so unusually large in time of peace, would render an excess unavoidable. That excess, he then stated, might probably amount to a million; and he now found that what he apprehend ed had taken place ; the excess, as it appears from the papers on the table, amounting to the sum of 1,032,1511. 4s. Bd. for the Army Extraordinaries, from the frith December 1801 to the 24th Decem ber 1802 inclusive. He was happy, however, to inform the Committee, that the sum nccesFary for the current year would not amount to more than 1,000,000, or at most to 1,200,001. He therefore moved, that a sum not exceeding 1,0320511. is. Bd. be granted to his Majesty for the Extramdnaries of the Army, from the 25th December 1801, to the 24th December 1802, both inclusive, which had not otherwise been provided for by Parliament. Mr. FULLER suggested, that so large an esti mate was liable to error, and that specifying the particular sums for particular purposes would afford better means of information and less opportunity of fraud to those concerned in the inferior depart ments. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it had been the constant custom for four or five years past to get as accurate statements as possible, and that every measure, which prudence or inge nuity could suggest, had been adopted to render any attempt at deception abortive. Before a bill was paid at the Treasury, it first passed through the hands of the Secretary of State, or under the in spect-64)n of the Comptrollers of the Army, and in every hlstance a complete check was given before payment, and a responsibility secured even after payment. Mr. FULLER thanked the CU *No , . rrna of the Emittl:9l Ea for the explanation he had given, which perfectly satisfied his mind. • Mr. JOHNSTONE wished for some explanation respeaing the sum of 3,001. which appeared in the estimate to have been paid for &wiling for the native troops of Ceylon ; he had not a doubt but that the most saristaCtory explanation could be given, and the only reason he had for noticing that charge was, that he imagined those articles Were - , encraily provided in India. • Mr. VANSITTART observed, that the state tf Ceylon now, Was very different from what it was when under the East India Company ; it was the part of Government to provide (until a proper fund could be formed for that purpose) for the military exigencies of Ceylon, which expellee would ulti mately tall upon the colony. General TAR LE.TON passed some encomiums on the accuracy of the estimates, which surpassed his expeCtations. lie therefore should agree to the re... Muttons, and begged leave to express a hope that tTie army of the whole empire should be put on the same footin„i , with that of England. The resolutions were then agreed to ; and the House being resumed, Mr. A T.EXA DLU brought up the report, which was ordered to be taken into con sideratoa on Friday next. Mr. BAGWELL moved, that the returns of the Clerks of the Peace for the several counties of Ire land, should be laid before the House, containing the names of the Freeholders registered in each county, at 501. '2Ol. and 44)5. Agreed to.—Ad journed. THEATRE-RordL, DRURr-LANE. Tills EVENING will be pre-elited :t New Historical Nay, in Three Acts, (411..4 THE HER() OF THE NORTH. The Overture at:il Music composed and selected by Mr. Kelly. The principid Characters by Mr. Pope, Mr. Wrottglit , m, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Mr. Dorton, Mr. Jun. Ntr. De Camp, Mr Caulfield, Mr. Sekwiek, Mr. Grimaldi, Mr. Gibbous, Mr. Fidler. Mrs. Young, Mrs. Mountain, Mrs. Ilarlowe, Misw Menage, Miss Mellon, Miss Tyrer. To i.which will lw added, .1 - HE PANNEL. The New Play of the Hero of the North continuing to he rez7eivcd midi universal applause, the Public are -t re spectfully informed that it will be repeated eery Tuesday, Thurmlay, avid Saturday s till further notice.—On Saturday, with The Wedding Day. THEATRE-ROniL, COVENT-GARDEN. TIIIS EVENING will be performed the Comic Opera of FAMILY QUARRELS. The ritwipat Characters by Mr. Brabant, Mr. Munden, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Emery, Mr. Cleverly, Mr. Simmons, and Mr. ineltsbut; Mrs. MameAs, Miss Clivpnian, Mrs. Malin, Miss Wad(ly, And Signora Storace. To whirl' will Ito added, THE JEW AND THE DOCTOR. On Soonlay, a new Comedy will be produced, called John SuH;•or, An Englishman's Fire-Side. line Prologue to be woken by Mr. Briniton...-with a Lyrical Epilogue by Mr. Johnstone. Tv which will be added, Twu Suibgs te)otu Sow. IMP TBRIT il PRESS. LON DON, THURSDAY, MARCH S. W." ,'4174 • In our Paper of Monday we stated, that a depu tation of twenty-four Members were chosen by the Legislative Body to wait upon the FLItT CONSUL to return thanks for his " View of the Republic," communicated upon the opening of the Session. — A series of Paris Papers, up to the 27th, received last night, state, that the Deputation waited upon him accordingly upon the 23d, and fulfilled the purpose of their mission. The address of thanks delivered upon the occasion says, " That the De putation will not enumerate all the great and useful things he has done, as they are engraven on the memory and hearts of the French, the Italians, the Swiss, and the German:." Except this - passage, in which the Germans are classed along with the sub- jab of the FlasT Cosset, who is represented as their patron and proteertor, there is nothing remarka ble in the address, unless it be an assurance of con tempt which it expresses "for the impotent efforts of the feeble enemies of the repose and happiness of I'r:ince." The expression is general ; but those who ate in the habit of reading the Moniteur, will not find it difficult to make the application.—This, however, is not the only Address which the Fiesr Co::sel. had 'he honour of receiving, in the course of last week. On the '2lst, forty-seven of the Swiss Deputies,the other nine havingleft l'aris,waitcd upon him; when the new Landamman returned thanks for his goodness,in giving to his country the Aft of Media_ " a work which," he says, " confirms the inde- . peantre of Switzerland." Low, indeed, is Swit zerland fallen, when a foreign Power is thanked for imposing upon it a Constitution at the point of the bayonet ; and perverted must be the Swiss no tions of liberty, when that is recognized as an aft of independanee, which is, in its nature, an un qualified at of slavery !—The civil code is now un der discussion. Several projets of laws have been laid before the Legislative Body, with the necessary explanation of theirtrature and principles. The most interesting thnt has been brought forward, relates to the right of citizenship, and the terms upon which foreigners may enjoy it. By extending this right to strangers who shall have been domiciliatcd a certain. number of years, it is evidently the policy of the Government to give every facility to the in crease of the French branch of the European family. The children of foreigners born in France are also French citizens, under certain moditicaticns. The Clef du Cabinet, and several other of the Paris papers, mention the arrest, at Rouen, of three persons in that city, who, after they had undergone a private examination, were sent off to Paris, under circum stances of profound Mystery. We have noticed it particularly; as the transaaion to which it alludes, is evidently the same announced in the following article, which appeared yesterday in The Morning Chronicle. " By t letter from Rouen, dated the 23d ult. we learn, that on'the 21st of February, a Frenchman, of the , mt4he . .of Boum; ,s is, just returned from Eaglatial***:esii With a number of his accomplices, artette# bj' the Government, in consequence of .es. fornin tien that they had entered' into a plot to ,nate the CHIEF CONSUL, and..afterwards to seize on the reins of G overnment. A number of papers I were found upon him, which are said to develop the diabolical scheme, and to implicate a number of persons in this country, emigrants from France. M. Boller: al s came over to England in the month of July last, with recommendations to several re speßable families to procure bins a situation as a tutor. lie did not succeed in this; and the account is, that he was drawn into the conspiracy by some of the emigrants resident in England, who still cherish the thoughts of a counter-revolution, by the means of tumult and anarchy. The suspe4ed persons were on the '2Bth alt. sent off froin Rouen to Paris in irons, and under a guard of fifty horsemen." It has been the pra6tice to attribute the gross calumnies propagated against this country, through the medium of the French Press, to an ignorance of our Manners, constitution, and charaaer. . This has.been the excuse assigned for all the calumnies, upon the new opposition, individually and collec tively, and for the plots and conspiracies alleged to havebeen planned and encouraged against the life of the Fi tor CoNsut.. We own we did not, at the time, see the drift of these calumnies ; but we were not disposed to flatter our vanity, by imputing ' them to the ignorance of the French Editors. They are not, we believe, quite so ignorant of England and Englishmen as they have been good-naturedly sup posed to be, and it is going rather too far, because the objea of a calumny is not seen, or its cause confessed, to consider it an idle and a stupid slander.—When then the name of a celebrated English Senator was foully, falsely, and audaciously coupled with the infernal machine—when other plots and conspira racies were subsequently conjured up under the pretended influence of England and Englishmen, we did not think they should be set down to ig would not, perhaps, be au CK tra- II- .01,, vagant assertion to say, that the trial of Lulotel DESP ARD has at least partly developed the motive. From the moment we read that part of FRANCIS'S testimony, stating that Colonel DxsPa an said, "no thing could be done upon a particular day alluded to, because he expeded mane" and newt front France," it did appear to us that the Paris Editors, in their previous charges of English plots and conspiracies against the FIRST CONSUL, were guarding a tender part. The Rouen Conspirators must, therefore, be taken as a part of this system.— Three poor Emigrants have gone to France to assassinate BONAPARTE, and assume the reins of Government. But there was a conspiracy against the KING of ENGLAND, proved in evi dence to have been maintained by money front France. Toputthetwocountries on a level, it is there fore necessary, that there should be a conspiracy against the life of the FIRST CoNsui. by men re cently returned from England. The French Funds arc rising high. They were on the '26th Feb. 6`2 f. c. ------- - It will be seen by the statement yesterday made by Mr. Colt aY, in the House of Commons, that the revenues of Ireland (under all the disadvantages that presented themselves in consequence of recent circumstances) are in a very flourishing state. The taws which he proposed to make permanent afford us a proof of thiswas they have in the last year amounted to 3,320,0001. whereat the charge upon them, according to the items laid before the house, were not more than '2,581,0001. The Vienna Court Gazette, of the 13th Febru ary, contains the following article : " Among the experiments and progress in rural ceconomy, which for their utility merit publication, were distinguished those of Counsellor liolsmai;tre, Direfror of the estates and Lordships of the Impe rial family. This economist has, in his sheep-walks in I lungary ' more than 2000 sheep of the Spanish breed. As he had, of late pan, lost many of them by the malady of the skin, which affe6ts those ani mals, he determined to inoculate all his sheep with the virus of that malady. He was previously as sured of the success and efficacy of Vaccination. This experiment • took place successively on 8000 lambs and '2OOO. None perished, and there were bu a very few on whom the matter did not operates M. Holsmaistre has again inoculated 1000 of thes animals, and put them among other sheep disorders ed by this kind of small-pox. None were infeeted, notwithstanding that com munication which would necessarily have been con tagious, if the principle of the disorder had not been destroyed by inoculation. Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the East India 'House; when Captains Mori ATT of the Ganges, and FA aqui! RSAN 01 Illeiflfred, for China, were sworn into the command of those ships ; Cap tains CLARKE of the Wexford, for Coast and China; BeaaowLs, Earl Howe, and MAXWELL, Calcutta, for Coast and Bay, took leave of the Court previous to those ships being finally dispatched for India. Yesterday the arrival of the Caledonia, extra shir, and Canda, Acre announced at the India House; the former left Bengal the 3d of Oetober, and the latter ' C . :Una the beginning of August, and St. Helena the 30th of December last. The brig Tdegrapb arrived in Chita Bth June.— The Dover Castle and Aria sailed from .Macon, on their return to Bengal, fid July. The David Scott arrived in China the 16th ; and Ceres, the 25th July. They were to be dispatched for England in ail the month of November. This day the LORD MAYOR will hold a Court of Common Council, for the eleftion of Clerk of Smithfield Market, and on other special affairs. A letter from Rome of the 24th of January says, " The Dutch Admiral De WINTER arrived with his squadron in the port of Cagliari. He demanded the permission of Government to land his forces on ac count of the sickness that prevailed amongst them, and the want in which they stood of. refreshments. The Governor, after having held a conference with the Commander of the English ships, refused the request. The Dutch Legislative Body has rejeaed the law proposed by Government in favour of the importa tion of rum from the English colonies, to the disad vantage of the trade of the Batavian colonies. The Batavian L.gislative Body terminated its extraordinary sitting on the 15th February. The Spring Session will open the 15th of April. The Government has taken a resolution relative to th e journey of the First Consul to Antwerp. As soon as it shall be informed of his arrival in that city, it will send to him a deputation of members of the Council of State. Of the four French brigades now in the Republic, two will remain, aad the other two will go to Louisiana. Mrs. Cosw A v is now in Paris, making and en graving desitNs from those pikaures of the groat masters which are deposited in the National Gal- lery. The Office which Mr. PIPEN had to discharge, as Sheriff of Surrey, was peculiarly distressing; for he had lost an only son, but a few days before he was called upon to see the late conspirators suffer death on a scaffold. The cold at Genoa has been unusually intense. The thermometer, on the 7th of February, stood a: nearly four degrees below the freezing point ; the river had begun to freeze near the banks, and a very heavy fall of snow took place. The novelty o f this scene drew all the inhabitants of the city to con template the brilliant phenomenon, which presented a sight that the oldest among them never hast.seen before. It furnished the entire pleasures of the day ; the theatres were shut, and the balls were suspended. Nobody could forego the pleasure of trampling the ' Snow ; even the most delicate ladies, fur the rarity of the thing, impressed upon it theirfootsteps, amidst the buffeting! of awry cold wind. Some youbg engravers seized this opportunity of exercising their talents, and exhibiting their works in public. AVerius was seen emerging from a sea of snow ; and a Bacchus was elevated on Lis tun. The learned also repaired to the scene, with microscopes in their,hands, to exa mine the snow, and the starry particles of which it was composed. The English and Dutch sailors. who happened to be there, immediately constructed some sledges, and exhibited to the wondering Ge noese a' speetlclei of vehich theL had not beige tbis remotest ides, • 1 .7 •