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that his statement tuns cdrretl. he should move for further documents. Ile then moved, that diet ebe laid before the Haase, a copy'of the tepnrt made by - John Cooper, Esq. Surveyor/eon al tit the port of :Dublin, as ordered by, and delivered to, the than. 'cellos of the Exchequer, in 'October 1502 : also other reports of a simila r kind, 'down to the latest Mr. FOSTER assured the 'Right Hon. Gentle wian,ithat in the statements lately made by him,he had 'made no allasion'whatever to the Union ; nor did he say that, during the discussions on thelhfion in Ire land, he had prediSed what the state of her finances would be. All be said was, that two years ago in 'that blouse, he had stated his apprehensions, as to what the situation of Ireland was likely to be. He never alluded to the Union as being the cause Of the failure of Irish finances. He now believed, that the situation Of Ireland wassuch as to be capable of great inquoventeirt, and of increasing rapidly in prosperity. And whateier he lied said on the subjell of the Union, during the discussions upon it in Ireland, he row felt it his Arty to forego every thing he then advanced ; sod 'to do his utmost endelvours to mend the deleas of the ceadny, and increase all the ad *vantages she must derive from the measure. These were the sentiments that had at all times been ex :pressed by him since the union took place. Now with respeft to the question of balances remaining in the hands of colleftors, He must contend that there was in the putter before the house, the sum of 530,0001. acknowledged to he in the hands of col ledlors. And he would ask the Right Hun. Gentle man if be thought the officers in Ireland did their dnty, if they sutfered arrears for two months, one 'filth of the revenue of Ireland, to remain in the hauls of those liable to pay taxes. He a ./S A usti fied in saying that the revenue was not colleCied as it ought to have been. What he asserted ties, that Government should now be in possession of these arrears, and that the money was withheld some where in its passagefront the pocket of the subject into the treasury. Mr. FRANCIS declared that the question re lating to these balmees was more surprising to him now than ever it wis before. When the Right Hon. gentleman made his statement on that point, it ap peared very unfavourable to another Right Hon. gentleman (Mr. Corry.) He took that statement as a charge against the government. But the ex. planation since given by Mr. Corry, if correct, was scoimiletely satisfactory. From that it appeared the tat in, were not in the Collectors hands, but were to Isecollected How was the House ever to be inform ed upon this tact ? Were the sums actually, or ought they to be, in t: ,e Collector's hands ; or was it, that they were not yet payable? If the gentlemen of England were not informed on this fact, they wog:Ups out of the /louse Much diss z tisficd. The Bight Hon. Gentleman did not give a satisfactory answer. Mr. FOSTER sal.f, what he meant to contend, was, that every farthing of arrears mentioned in the paper before the 11wue, ought to have been eoilect ed. ar . d in the Treasury of Ireland; that the arrears outstanding were those which ought not to have been suffered to lie out. This all he could say sit present; there were various items In the balances %h,eb woaLl he laid before the and might be ermined !lava:ter : upon these he would give every information in his power ; but he conld net sty any thing mere on the subject, till all the ac counts were laid beforo :he House. Mr. HAWTHORNE. said, that in order to be satisfied whether the balances were aetually in the hands of the Colle:tors, he applied to a Right I lon. Friend of his. who was Secretary to the Lord Lieu t..nant of Ireland, aad from him he had Lulled. that a toonth's credit was given for the payment of the dutiel on excise ; but that the Collettors were charged with the money for that time, although they could not have received it. This was the rea son why so much mor.ey appeared to be in their hands. He hoped this statement would remove say impression that might hare been made un;a-. vourable to the government of Ireland ; aini that those who bad suppessod her to be, from Cie state ments of the Right Hon. Gentleman. in a sinking state, would now enteroin a different opinion. Mr. FOSTER. denied his having ever said that Ireland was in a sinking state ; on the contrary, he had declared, that, by great efforu, she was capable of retrievins all those difficulties. Tao motion of Mr. Corry was then agreed to. Mr. CORRY then moved, that there be laid be fore the House, a copy of all the general orders issued by the C , nunissioners of Excise, &c. in Ire land, since 1 soo, tOr the better colic:non of the resenee.—Ordered. Mr. HUSICISSON obtained leave to bring in a Bill for appointing Commissioners for the better tarrying tato eft& the Property Tax A& of last year. He also obtained leave to bring in a Bill to ex plain and amend several An. relating to Hackney Coaches employed as Stage Coaches. THE LOTTERY. Mr. HUSKISSVii then gave notice, on behalf of Mr. Pit 4 who was now abrent, that it was tl:e • I.ion of his Right. lion. Friend, in the Com. :tee of Supply on Monday nest, to submit to the Just a Motion taxis': to the Lottery. The SECRETARY at WAR obtain:l leave to bring in a Bill to permit the Paymaster-General cf the Forces, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Barrack-Master General, Etc. to send and rr:eive letters free of postage. Mr. FOSTER, in a Committee of the whole Mouse, obtained leave to bring in a Bill :or confirm ing the Provisions of the A:tot the 34.1 of the King, so far as it prohibits the importrion of malt into Ite . .and ; and for repealing the power granted to the Lord Lieutenant of - Ireland, for prohibiting the use of oats and oatmeal in distilleries. The Report was bro . 4 - ht up, :he Resolution agreed to by the House ; and Mr. Forrsa afterwards brought up the Bill t— wlikla was read a first, and ordued to be read a se stood time to-morrow. Mr. FOOTS' brought a Bill to allow the circa. Nation of Small Notes in Ireland: read a first a,..1 ordered to be read a second time on Friday. He then obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better Colledlion of the Revenues in Ireland. The Committees of Supply and Ways and Woo wen pat of till Friday. Ott the motion of Mr. the !louse .I:etit into a Committee on the Corn Exportation Bill. In the Comnk..ee, Mr. PiVITESON moved, that all the fractious of pent.? struck out a the rates ; which was agreed to, The report was brought up, and ordered to be re-committed to morrow. The other Orders of the Day were disposed of. Adjourned. The pres.ure of rarlramentary Delaat ao.l other urgent tt.i rws, hay: for sam:. time necessarily exclud.-d several interest• ing a iticie. iut vidlal for publieatinn. Of these, Ti , e Funr Priitical Wind...hall certainly appear trrninr•rre. THE BRITISH P iiill°,SS. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 5. In the conversation in the House of Commons, on Monday night, upon the subject of the Civil List, Si; Joan Ntwronx said, " he would appeal to the French, if they had not found their situation worse, and their expences increased, by their success in overthrowing their old Government." We have beet forcibly struck with the justice of this observation. One of the most hazlsa..yed cants of the French Jacobins, against Monare:iieal Govern ments, was, the pretended enormity of the Civil List, and the great expenditure attending the rank and Courts of Kings. What has France gained by the Revolution that annihilated both ? Rive we not read of the expences of the C4ainpr.,n the Revolutionary Emperor. 800/OAK ft He has oriteredhis Civil List to be nominally no more than twenty-five millions of tyres (upwards cf one mil lion sterling), though, in fa 3, not only the whole re venue of France may be regarded as his nrimor pro perty, out rem the tributes extorted from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Holland, and Germany. He dis poses of the. one and the other, without any con trout, and as he chooses. but this is not enough. His Imperial Consort, the Revoltrinnary Empress, Joterunst, has her pirate revenue and resources. Sne sells places and proteaions, contraels and pro motions, life and death, hinny and imprisonment ; add to this, that the honourable company cf the far mers of the organised gambling-houses in France, pay her revolutionary Majesty in the month :100,000 livres (12,5C01.) as a dieuesup for her high protec tion. Of the revolutionary Imperial Highnesses, ,each has a fixed allowance of three millions of livres (125,0001,) in the year; and they are besides per mitted to sell indemnities to foreigners, and exclusive privileges to Frenchmen. They monopolise all the sums offered by baseness and ambition from abroad, and by wickedness and avidity at home. The pil lage in this manner colleaed by the whole tribe of revolutionaly Emperor, Empress, Imperial High ness, Arch-Eidlors, Constables, let.. 5::. during the two last years only, is estimated in France at 400 millions of byres, or Iti millions' sterling. This is as well known in the diplomatic circle at Paris, as it is over all France, that each of the female revo lutionary Imperial Highnesses has livres, or 50,6001. in the year, with the authority to plun der with impunity what they think proper, per fee and per nrfas. This is the regulari?, and eranamy France has gained by listening to her Jacobin re- formers, who, as a bowie derrhe, have augmented the taxes, in a manner, that the slaves of Bona, ass/ pay 20 to I more than the subjeas of Louis XVI. As to the salaries of our diplomatic agents, they are much less than those of equal rank, in the service of Russia, Austria, and France. The Secret Service Money of the two former States cannot be known ; ►ut in the French Budget, published in the .Ifor.i. seer. February_l SO3, seventy-nine miilions of liras, or between three or four millions sterling, were ac knowledged to have been expended, during the Re publican year X. a year V Price. Great Britain is justly supposed, in all parts of the world, the richest Empire ; but the revenue of our Sovereign is less than eren that of Kings of the second and third rank. The Kir.gs of Denmark, Sweden, Naples, and Spain, as well as the King of Prussia, the Empetors el Germany and Russia, have no fixed Civil List; and thirir cspences have no other bounds, but the.r will and patriotism. No former of Englans , ever had, and no coatempc rary Potentate on the Continent has such a numerous, amiable ar.d meritorious family to provide for, as our present siew7vedly beloved Sovereign. To cavil, therefore, at some few thousand p'unds in the richest country in Europe, where subjetts possess for tunes :7reater than many Foreign Princes, evinces neither patriotism nor policy, :Ad a jealous, narrow, or faaions mind. Political apostacy is scandal•ms, but the religious hypocrisy if Atheism is both infan olt and dan gerous; it adds cowardice t,• Circamstinces oft.en force vereigas to change nr to vary their an;ances and corm...El:ens with other SoYer.: . gns and with other States ; their eharaders remain notwith standing tit:impeached. becalm. the religion, and the morals of their sabjeas do no: culTer from it. But, when the Chief °fa grand empire, by his aft ions provcs his infideity, and b; Ls wi r.ls his hypocrisy: Warn wadin,giltrongh crime to sn'reme atith'erity, in evert step he has blasphemed his God and persecuted the the example is contagious, encouraging to vice, and distressing to virtue. From a 'country cursed ivlth such a ruler, all morality, as well as religion, must be banished ; no ties, either sacred or human, can restrain or direct the passions of a people of disbelievers and atheists. We have been led into tliese refieaions, by information received in Private Letters from France, that the Fong, in saluting the ferocious Corsican an EMPEROR of the FRENCH, has diao:roured and insulted all true Christians, and derided the Christian Religion itself, by politically baptising an atheisti cal murderer and poisoner, a Nlosr CHRISTIAN EMPEROR. On the 2..1.1 of July, 17!43, his now Most Christian Majesty, Bosi APART r, then Commandvr of the French Army in Egypt, issued, on his land ing, a Proclamation to the inhabitants, which, if any other evidence was wanted, will mark to all ages his contempt of Divine Institutions; a Proclamation, which began by erpressly den4ing JESUS CHRIST, an I proceeded to affirm, that the French adored the Sv rat. sic Brim°, and honoured the Prophet Msllo MEr and his holy Kar.m. "There is no other Gm)," says this abominable paper, " but Gov, and N 1 animal- is his prophet. The French are true Nlussulmen ; they reverence, more than the Mamelukes themselves, Gnu, his Prophet M Ant- MET, and the Koran! Hot long since they marched to Rome, , vibe.- v.; the throw of the Pope,who ex cited t:-.; ...srians against the professors of „ :.• Nl.thorretan religion). Afterwards they d their course to Malta, and droie out are e.r. - rt, who imagined they were ap pointed iiy God to make war on hi, faithful, the Ma hometaa•." These words are copied verbatim from a proclamation signed BONAPARTE, and counter signed BERT HI Ex, and cannot be unknown to the Ministers of Pius VII. but the men who advised the s;gning of the religious concordat, and acknowledge in it the atrocious EON Alt z, equally apostate to Goo and to MA H 0 ..I r, will bow, at the expense ut their consciences, duty, and rank, to even• demand dictated by tle Usurper's whim, po. hey, or ambition, acre he even to order them to substitute the Koran for the Bible. Yesterday, a Court of Dire tors was Lel l at the East India liotts , r, wh.en tenders were opened for eni 'ging ships in the Company's service that have performed their contra:led number of voyages. Caotain WILLI AM .1 A NIFS EAS rrIELD was sworn into the command of the flud..'ert, stationed for Ben pal; as WAS also Captain .1 A MES NORIIA4 into the curnmand of the Sirelt,44 Crwle, for Bombay. Captain THOMAS S A SOMA, of the Traz•ert, took his final leave of the Court previous to departing for St. Helena and Bengal. The Court adjourned at six o'clock tiit Wednesday next. So much having been lately said on the disinclina tion of i G at Personage, to the infliaion of capital ',lnnis:iv:ems, except in particular cases, the follow ing at. :cdote will show the sentiments thirty-five yesrz .go, of a King, whose principal atte, tiou has bee ..ireaed to the happiness or his people, and wl: • pOW:FIV, charity and benevolence in a very st... riot degree, the necessary consequence of being in principle and praaice a perfea Cnristiari.— :: is taken ft ern the ('lurt 11f, , ce!..inv, or Geadreien and: Nt .74 I sa:nte for the year 1769 : " Among a many stt iking instances of the amiable di of a certain Personage. who is nut more c.in.pc uoo- (or the dignity of his station than the unaff.a..o 140 . n.'ss of his heart, the fol , lowing is tel tad -.11 :.en the report of a ntimtur of unfertunate peupl who had incurred the severest sentence of :h: law, was made to him a few days ago, lie minutely inciniced in to their unhappy ciret.mitances, and finding none of them totally incorrigible, he nobly reipited them all, observing. at tie same time, that he was entirely of opinion wart the Marquis Bee- ARIA, when he says, in h s ce:ebrated Treatise or Crimes and Punishments, that a good Sovereign, except in some very atrociotts cases, wall not find it necessary to take away the life of a subjea." - A letter, parporthig ta be written by TiIOMAS Passe, upon the subjia of the Invasion of England by force, has been puhlished by several of our c m temporaries. In it Mr. PA Ise sa), 5, " The clarn:ur spread by the English Newspapers, of the intention of the French to F.:tinder is absurd; that the French only wish to overthrow the Government, that the peter plc may be enabled to choose one which will re estabiish peace." Where is the absurdity of sup po.ing that the French hare in view the plunder of this country ? Did not the French armies plunder Italy, Germany ? klase they not sacked every city, despoiled every mansion which has fallen into their power? Bon Apra Ye has drained and im poverished Italy, either by dire.% plunder, or by Loans and Coatributioni,till it is reduced to a state of beggary. Spai', Portugal, and other countries, which BONAPARTL has not conquered, he squeezes of enor mous sums in consecinence of the fear in which they ' stand of him. Hanover has recently been plundered of every thing valuable with the most fierce rapa city, because it belonged to the nett. ism KING. Why then should we expel to escape ? We, against whoa, all the envy, hatred, and revenge of the French Government are conzenter,d? Plunder, un doubtediv, would not Ix tlx m,,in objeet of the French trarcoun; it would be a tl:ing of secondary consideration given to gratify the colliery ; ti.e great obje4 would be t.i subvert the Eresh Constitution, and thereby to subjugate the English people. The French would pretend to do what PAINL holds out ; they would affeft to enable us to choose a free G iverranent ; that is, an English mob, headed by a few traitors, would cry ou for some thing as a Government, which French cunning would suggest, and Ft each bayonets would enforce. A 07:i :tiff ADDRESS' TA 'AE bI7CIILIS OF ROX JURGII, on Hart ARRIVAL AT rtsuil IN SCOTLAND, O ! Fair one, welcome t, the scene Fr.ithloot waves her easy plumes. Where Plenty holds her golden reign, And triumphs in a thousand Worms. Young Health sh4ll meet thy steps at omen, And l,ad thee o'er the spangled blade, 71'.iie Ilature's ntia.trels, Icons the thorn. S.O ute thy way from shade to shade. RA hark' of Ancient Tweed the voice! " Tho' fre...iom'v form dehight the grove►{ Ali Plenty hid the vale rejoice, ! what are thew with•.ut the Lie " At length, to grace my verdant side, " Behnhl the smiling uaiu appvar, " To Ind my stream exalt its pride, " I.nd rapture rule the rolling year l" Sica. tlll2 song of classic Tooted ; And,..liooid the scene thy stay iodine, Our D-yad Bard ; and rinsl reed, With all out sluules and trot!, nee thine. . • A DRYAD. Tuesday evening Their MAJESTIES, in a post chaise, followed by the PRINCESSES :tnd attendants, in three coaches and four, took an airing, and h(i. noured Sir J. BANKS with a visit, at his house at Spring Grove, near Hounslow. The Royal Party returned to Kew about nice o'clock. Yesterday morning Their MAJESTIES, the Pius. CISSES, and the Duke of Kcsr, walked in Rids. mond Gardens. Yesterday morning the Duke of Yoec visited Their MAJLSTI LS. In addition to the Royal Charlotte yacht, which it to attend Their MA J EST Its At. Weymouth, the P ce,s AstguNta yacht, at the Lower Hope, is otdard to Depifold, to be immediately fitted for the same purpose. Saturday evening His Royal Highness Prince WILLIAM . FittnERIC Of GLOUCILSTIN with his wire, arrived at Trinity College Lodge Cambridge, on a visitto Dr.Masset., Masterof the College. The event was soon known by the ringing of bells at differca churches. Yesterday he dined with the Vier- CHANCELLOR, and attended divine service twice it Great St. Mary's Chui ch. This morning His Rot AL ilioriNcss held a very 'numerous and respedabie levee at Trinity Lodge, and is ezpeeed to honour the Commencement tall with his pomace in the evening. A public breakfast will be given on Wednesday morning in the gardens of Jesus College by Dr. Clevict: and Mr. CKIPPS, Members of that Society. The St. James's, Westminster, Loyal Volunteer Regiment, commanded by Lord Antecair, r. ll march this day to Kilburn Wells, to fire at a twin, for a silver cup, given by Lord Am utast - . General LAKE'S share of the booty at Delhi. kc. in the la'e war in India, amounted to 60,000. the whole of which has been already remitted to t!.3 country. Lord ELLIOT ha, left town for Cornwall. Mr. and — Mrs. PIGOL; are now enjoyirg sweets of rural retirement at their charming sc.a in Sussex. _ Lor3 and Lade R A nsvoca have left town fcr the remainder of the summer season. On Monday last, JOHN Baowste, Esq. M.P. for the county of Tipperary, was ele.led Mayor, and It. Moose, and C. RIALL, Esqrs. Bailiffs of tie Corporation for the ensuing year. At the Liverpool Theatre, on Friday last, Mr. 13.ietivvrotte (recovered front his late accident) periormod the part of Peregriec, in the favourite Comedy of Join Bull. He received a hearty wel come from the audience. Some say that lilac and green are the most fashicr able col , urs ; but. a. long ac the naked fashions pre , vail, the most general colour must be tqr. - • Tee B: rliton Theatre will open on Saturday, under the patronage of the Prince of WALLS. The South Hams Agricultural Society seems to value brutal mere than human ezcellence : it adver• vies a premium of four guineas to the best pladf 4- num, and of five guineas to the best cart .1 two guineas to the best dairy-wail, and of tine guineas to the best cosy; of one guinea to the WA sitarer, a d of two guineas to the best raw. The E.irl of Bala ir stoat has launched a bear aid new .is a rig, the body of which is painted block Gila blue. The critics say, that the music w The /]wrier c e:'t Alp has added " another laurel to the fame of KELLY;' —we presume they mean his fame la tkparivn. - - - . - The aquatic wager for 50 guineas, which was° have taken place within a fortnight, between Saw FILLD and M.L ti; strict, is relinquished, in C ( ``"" quence of the Litter having had the mitforti..... t. -; lamed in the fa -it, by the hook of his boat. At the new Theatre Royal, Liverpool, 740 'Si"' fieieus Hasband was perfotmed on Monday, se'nnigil. Ra,,er,, by Mr. Lewis, his first appearance di' season. His reception was as cordial and exbilitst irg as he could possibly wish. The house era: crowded with the most fashionable company of d' e place, who testified their satisfaction on the (nue• tainment that was provided for them, by the loc.:. est applauses. In the farce, Mr. Lsetre made his first appearance this season, in the ck). racer of . 745 a Lump, which added considerably the attraction of the evening. Wednesday, .Lme 27. Rale a ink ea lowa The Copper Caplets, by Mr. Law's ; Est:fano , NO G tort a (her first appearance this season). 1 ' play was admirably tufted in every pat. 5 1 '" Gtorta was most warmly received by the dierce, and her acting was such as to satisfy most fastidious mitic. Mr. LEWIS and Mr. in their respeaive parts, were equally succes•—• The audience was respeaable, but be numerous as might have been espeital fr-im "'P I* erful an attnaions 'fr3ubleso *i.ttlinalt. me last te brig; Diaries" or, lii hatred w tagistrates, has murd land in the a item in tl 'ion, an um the place c escort as it would nbt out to the Garage, C forgiven.* crimes. I criminals, its place w who had d sets prove The on Cornmeal been latd where kit learned ge new edits° the libraris *Am nisi upon. A particular, bead writi binTaPhe marorated by Sir Ed at present is the yea 'middle of l a p d r; it C: the origin Sir Ed laded to h Saxe a pill be ab The Ni for a pica Mahan silver eau an elegau vase are and a De the life, are figure nod at C nee for dr handles, c a blanch a Mr. Cos prim j a .cripticin : At 04 embie nta a-e four repre sent i, 014 sea ,p