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double-lieaded Chancellor of the Exclletrer (as hit Right l lon. Friend had justly called him) might be compared to the monster Cal;beir in The Tempest. who was said to have a mouth before and a mouth behinds with one of which he spoke abuse, and with the other he spoke fair words. And he mien well say with Thecae, that if he once had this monster in England, he would make his fortune by sheering him. (Lend fist qf lavpiier.) Mr. C./411111G &impacted the statenionts of ) r. Pyre. 4 13 r. LAMIEINCE sail, that all the thities and fxtstkioes of this situatinq Insceepersvis, /Oho Wino-zit nesponsibie fee say thin be di,i. The 'thole af thtu proceadlog deserved the censure it Wry Tithed, and he hoped *at censure was not distion adv. , ; , )406 IPIIAgETS. in explanatios‘ . said, the whole of Ms objeflion went to slew the danger of the pre ceslerg. • Mr. ILIhNAIRD said, when the Irish Budget was brought forward, he considered all the state ments then made, as coming Mficially from the Right Hon. Gentleman ; and if he had not so con sidered them, he never woul i have consented to the • resolutions that moved. Now he would ask the Right Hommel& Gentleman, with whom did be bold nice! eentrannications out of doors, en the subjeenf Irelsodl Unless it was known who was in as official *radon. the King and the Country were badly served, and Ireland was left in a situ'ation in which it ought not any longer to • weenie. The whole of this proceeding was a =sera tie wrasitia. fee the purpose of a Member holding Aim seat a few days longer. If the House did not .take the business up, he was sure the print-shops 'would ; and that they would soon take are to have this double-herded monster represented in its pi oper colours to the public. W. FOSTER explained. After a few words from Mr. Jouvsrove, the Dal was read a first time. Mr. HUTCHINSON said, he feared the Bill would injure the interests of the Distillers in Ire land. It was then ordered to be read a second time tomorrow. Mr. FosrEa brought op the arimoll. Irish Vote of Credit Bill. aad a Bill for establishing fur ther regulations for the better co/leetion of tne Ex cise and Customs Duties.—llead a first and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow MT. SHERIDAN and Mr. JOHNSTONE asked if a pledge had not been given to the Bank of Ireland, 1 that no more loans would be raised this year by bschaquer Bills ? Mr. FOS PER said, he understood some arrrnge inent to that effed had been made, sad he supposed at would be adhered to Mr. SHERIDAN said, this was no satisfaloTY answer, and pressed for one mare explicit. Mr. FOSTEK said. this mode of questioning him put him is mind of a circumstance that once occur red is the House of Commons in Ireland. Several tineations ware put. in the absence of the Chancellor of the Bothestuer. to a Member, who at length made no othe/ H ansiver than this, 'wait until lam m office." . Mt. ERIDAYI considered it an as of presump tion, that the faith at the Government should be Pledged es die Bank of Ireland. sad that it should olkerwarth b i belots Mr. Foy B. said, be had given no pledge. The sew Eschisper Bills were not yet issued, and how they were to be issued was a question for the Bosse to consider. INJOHN STRACHEY brought up the report of die bdia Budget. which was ordered to be taken late further coosideration on Slooday . Ms. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Committee on the Loyalty Loan, which was agreed to. and a Bill ordered. Mr. ADDINGTON said, this was founded on tbesupposad validity of the claims of the sabscrilyers in repayment, previous to April, 180. Ile must now my what lie stated before that be thought no each Blaine did legally exist ; and he had the high ist law authority for saying so. DUTIES Ott STAMPS. Oa the magi for committing the Stamp Duty 3i11: Mr. SHERIDAN repeated his objeeions to go. lag into the Committee, on account of the House not being sulliciently informed as to the nature or amount of the new duties. The new duties were, be believed, the same as those that had been pro posed by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, who gave the public a schedule of them; and slow he wished to know why this schedule was withheld. Besides all this, be had a con stitutional **dire to the measure. It was nut to be endured that Government should derive a gnat revenue from refusing to open the doors of justice to the people, unless they paid for a licence to enter them. By raising a revenue in such a way, the rights of the subj.& were injured. There was to be an *dekko of RS per neat. on all legal proceed ilipirthe Caen of Chancery. This would be com p • men to take oat a licence before the could lath justice there. It was, in foe, ' jus ;co, and consequently • died viola ti on the are of Magna Charts—oreili mere jwstitema. might be smd that such • tax would pre ' litigatiou, but be would my, that the only dee I be to leave the comets of law s like the Lon .'evern, open to the wealthy; while the poor completely excluded. He disapproved of the for making attorneys take out annual It was a stigma co them. As well might moment oblige physicians sad merchants to do He also disapproved of the heavy vas trances upon lives. It would operate as a grievance os many poor persons who had no way of making a provision for their families. 1 moved that it be an instrueion to the Com that they Lave power to divide the Bill into CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 1 , paper which the Hon. Gent Wotan wished - been on the table for some days ' and if he applied mine time in the course of those days tiling what be appeared now so anxious to see, 114 before that day, have acquired the intor , he was so desirous to obtain. For his own had no objeaion to the printing it. He «fined, indeed, it had been primed, and the Hon. Gentleman might have scot somebody to read it for as to have satisbed his mind on the subjea. tot his intention, on the present question, to more of the Bill in derail t h ey ha mild sat well avoid. He should, therefore, proceed imme mediately to mice the principal item with which the Hon. Gentleman four.d the greatest fault : this was the stamps on law proceedings, which so much alarmed the Honourable Gentleman, who had taken them at half a million, when, in fail, the amount vas only 60,0001. From what had fallen from as Hon. and Learned Gentleman oppo site, on a former night, be had conceived that he should have had to encounter a very unpleasar.t conference with the professional Gentlemen whom this tax so directly concerned; but, when be came to meet them, he found they were by no means im pressed with those ala• ming ideas he had been given to understand ; and. after the explanation which had taken place, they went away, he would not say per foßly satisfied with the provisions of the Bill, which applied so immediately to their profession and to themselves as individuals, but satisfied as far as any persons could well be who found they must become particular objets of taxation. Another Hon. and Learned Gentleman (Dr. Laurence) had also taken extreme alarm at the progressive pro visions resteMing the stamps, as they related to his particula- court ; and he was not surpri'ed at it, when he found, on inquiry, that it look 400 folio pages as a preliminary step to a suit in the Eccles - astical Court. However, this alarm arose merely on a misapprelleasion in not adverting to the word used in statin the progressive amount of tie ditty, as Kati been done in the farmer Ati, which made it appear to multiply far more th in was the intention ; it efts, in fad, a mistake, which it was his intention to have altered before the schedule was completed aad aided to the Bill. The Hon. Gentleman who began this debate, had said that the measure of tax ing law proceedings was wholly unconstitutional. In this, he must differ in opinion from him. This tax had its origin in the reign of King Wil ham, and had been recognised and extended in different reigns since then without having ever been deemed unconstitutional till now. The Hon. Gent. had also said, that if this tax was permitted, it would be impossible for the lower classes of the people ever to obtain justice, for the expences would be so great that the courts of law would be shut upon them. He begged that Hon. Gent. to recol let, that the law of this country had, in its huma nity, provided a remedy against such a hardship, and that those who were really poor might sue in f,rnets panprris. He denied, that it would be advan tageous to the country to have all law proceedings :r ens ; for if they gain their causes they recover the costs ;'and if costs tall, and fall heavy only on those who institute suits upon false pretences, such a pu nishment will be a benefit to society. He denied the arguments of the Hon. Gent. as to its being against Magna Cheria ; for in that statute the words he had quoted of milli readeeses applied only to the proceedings of arbitrary times,when the Kings courts were shut against all wbo did not first pay a fine or sum of money to the King ; whereas this was only a tax by a stamp on certain proceedings used in the courts legally granted by Parliament, and recognised as the established law of the land. These were the only dices he found it necessary to advert to at present ; and he thought them such as were not sufficant to exclude, and if not to exclude the tax, he thought the House should not agree to separate the Bill. As such the motion should have his nega tive. Dr. LAURENCE spoke at considerable length against the tax, as unequal and unjust. In Chancery the exposes was only 25 per cent. in the Ecclesi astical Courts 50. In the Admiralty Court it fell peculiarly heavy on the foreign merchants. and on our brave seamen, who were taxed double. Mr. ADDINGTON was in favour of the Bill, and looked on himself as responsible for the sche dule, it being nearly a copy of his own schedule. Charges on law proceedings must, lie said, be con sidered as a public evil. Some of those he should therefore have proposed as they now stand, and some he should have wished a diminution of. He thought all the objeas might be obviated in the Committee, and that there was no need of au in struaion to obtain the objea of the motion. He was therefore for going into the Committee. Sir W. PULTENEY differed from the Hon. Gent. who spoke last as to going into a Committee. The question goes to a great general principle, and was not so proper for a Committee. He thought the tat on law proceedings highly unconstitutional, and the Right Hoar. Gent. he knew once thought to himself. Mr. Serjeant BEST said, he was a decided enemy to the whole of the Stamp Duties, which were car ried to such an extent, as to have become extremely grievous and oppressive; it was a tax on distress and not on opulence. He objetted particularly to the ad velem* duty on mortgages and bonds, as he con sidered every man in distress who was obliged to borrow money. He insisted that the tax on law proceedings was against the principle of Magna Charts, foe if the party wanting to sue cannot pay for stomps, the courts are completely shut against hies. The Right Hon. Gentleman bad said, the ratT ea lla i l t ia 1 1 1 6, 7 m woull n have th: e m again in costs. recovered, and He • the Defendant was ale to pay the costs. But where there was an anion to recover landed property, there were hundreds for debts, and in a great ma. jority of those no costs could be obtained. tie was decidedly in favour of the motion. Mr. W. DICKENSON said a fewwords against it. The ATTORNEY GENERAL, in answer to Mr. Serjeant Bur, said, that his argument went not merely to :otii;s to this Bill, but to the whole of the Stamp Duties laid on by former Bills ; and he, therefore, conceived it so far irrelevant to the Motion now before the House, which was an in strultion to the Commons. Mr. WINDHAM denied the Hon. and Learned Gendentases position. He said, however good an argument is against what ha iron law, it may be equally good against what is stassor am. Things may be done without beieg very wrong to a certain peiat ; but after that, it may be very unwise to continue them. In that 'state, he thought they were now. He did not know a great deal from this subjelt, but from a Trea tise he had met with, published by a Kr. Ben tham, in which he lays down the paradox, that tax ing law proceedings was to tax the necessaries of Ai& for the great an of finance eriag was to make the people pay according to their means, and in a tax on law proceedings, they were not taxing pro perty, bat *a means of obtaining that property it LONDON, THURSDAY. JULY 12. Private letters from Paris mention several par ticulars concerning the late pretended conspiracy, and the different fates of the condemned, pardoned, or sacrificed victims, not mentioned is the public prints. The sentences of them all were dilated by the GRAMD JUDOS * al ordered by BONAPAILTE j that of Mosteau alone, the Judges changed from death to imprisonment, which has caused the disgrace of three of them, who have been deprived of their places, and exiled from Paris. All the persons par dowd are noblemen, or of families whose good opinion it is the interest of B and whom, after the murmurs the murder of the Duke of ENOHIgN generally excited, it would have been imprudent, if not dangerous, to send to the scaffold. Besides, their numerous relatives, and the partisans of Royalty, and of the BOURBONS, would probably, sooner or later, have revenged their death. Rusattion is the only exception, but be belongs to that oligarchical party in Switzerland, which has caused so many oppositions to Bonsai sax s's tyran ny in that country, that the Usurper- was finally ob liged to choose Mr. De WATTBII witta, one among them, as a landamman ; this explains why Res sti.toti was spared. Of those who perished, not one was a nobleman, and Giotto's only had nu merous adherents among the people in the NVesteru department; but at the same time many persons among the nobility in France, were jealous or envious both of his popularity, and the consideration he de servedly enjoyed with the King of FRA NCR, and the PaINC es of the thrum of Bourbon. We have, 11 ever, seen two letters, which positively affirm tliat his pardon was offered him both at the Bicetre and in the Conciergerie ; but. upon such terms, that nei ther his loyalty. nor honour, nor religion, could per mit him to accept. Carried to the place of exe cution, in passing the Chatelet, some persons ex claimed rive .Gestrge 1 and others applauded him; but the police agents arrested them immediately. Goose's bowed to several ladies on the quay, who, from the windows of different houses, saluted him with their handkerchiefs, and with tears in their eyes .hewed that they felt for his destiny, and admired his loyalty and resignation. Upon the scaffold, Gaottees desired to address the people, but was not permitted. General MUSA'S, who was present, de manded what be bad to my; his answer was, that he desired it to be knows , to his countrymen, th u I. died as he had lived, faithful to his Gun and t o his Ki ss ; and, at a taste Chriliciati;` l fifriare , e ven his murderer. Bose,' mt . , whose soaseisi on prayed for, and that he might in his lai:t MetneEts meet death s:ith equal hope, consolati* tree.. quill:ty. It had been ordered drittioaoss should be executed the last ; but a rumour bad reached his st - Serers, that he would be pardoned ups * Lila scaffold. He demanded of Wear, as a svour, to be beheaded first, to set them an example hos, loyal men should die. This was consented to. B e .. tore the executioner tied Gratots' hands, he en s . bread his confessor, and then, looking up to llea, yen, ha called nut loudly, Vice le Rei s Rawions! All the •other sufferers died wide ricid firmness, devo ;on, and loyalty. DUCORP9 and Le Nlxisc La went to the town-hall just by, oilly to didate their wills, and were executed twenty 1 ,4. nutes later on that account. Their last words weie, Vice le Roi Liu', XVIII! The scaff..4.l hal bees placed nearly opposite that Grocer's house, in N ee d e Gr ce, which became drea !fully n ,, torions on the 14 th ofiltilys 178:), from the lamp.post az its coral., where the rebels of that period, undo the c , mmand of the imbecile La FA v erre, murdered o many faithful and good subjects. As the Patisiang, ever since the days of Bello IPARTE% worthy predecessor, Rottesetaaas, had never seen so many pretended conspirators butcher. ed en nan , re, this executing excited not y encore. mon curiosity, but compassion; and on Midsum mer-Day, when Bo AP ARTI passel through the Rois de Boulogne, all persons walking there, called out, Grace ! Grace ! Pardon ! Pardon ! which so much offended the Corsican, that he returned to St. CLud, instead of going to the Tteetre FlaaCaa at Penis, where he was expeeted. The same nightbe sent orders to 10,000 troops, quartered in a circle thirty miles round Paris, to enter immedlatilly that capital; and on the day of execution, no less dos 88,000 men were under arms, for fear that the people should release the prisoners. Not rnly the way from the Conciergerie to the Place de Great WAS lined with two ranks of soldiers, but ail the bridles and streets in the neighbourhood were occupied by troops of sU descriptions, Kith flying artillery. Two thousand Italian grenadiers of the ci l de.e4 Consular Guard, kept a grarra on the Place de Greve, and 109 dear erne-: (relien escorted the prisoners, and surrounded the scaffold. A law in the former reign - cf terror ordered all persons convkled of plotting against the lives of the representatives of the people, or against the Mil react of the republic, to be executed dressed in a red eheisise, or rather frock. Bow AAAAA a desired this law to be now revived ; but desisted, upon the ob servations in Les Newell's a /a Mies of the Ist Messidor, that within a month 'after this laie haJ been proclaimed, and sixty pretended conspirators and supposed assassins of Rte sr ea it e had been guillotined in red shirts ; this republican tirra perished himself (they were murdered in Ju..e 1794, and be in July, the same year). The Senators Le Fr.vaz and Si'. Suzewsi, who both have served under Moans's, negociated be tween him and Box AAAAA re, and caused the former, who, since his condemnation, has shewn more ch ratter than he had done before, to accept d the offer to go to America, with the value of all his property, and an annuity of 100,000 I.vres. He declined the place of a Governor in the Isle of France, saying, he would never acknowledge Bo a as an Emperor, or serve ender hirn as such. Madame Mousse, on account of the tender age of their child, was desired to remain in Francs twelve mouths longer, but she accompanied her husband, and many think she will embark with him. Her mother remains yet at Paris employed in dis posing of their property. It is said that Bow AAAAA g intends to purchase Moa EAU'S counts? seat, Gros bois, for his brother Lot IS. The Tribune MOREAU, and all the other members of MORLAVI fami l y, will settle in North America. It is even said that several Generals, as HAM, MACDONAID, Leconte'', And others, intend to join their friend Morteiv, in the United States. A Court of Diraturs was yeste•diy held at the East India House, when the destina•.ians of the tol lowing ships of the present Season were altered. They are now consigned as underinentii n:J: Lord Kedh. Mad u and Bengal. Dat H rut •t Ma•'e ra, Madras, and B:r.gaL Mudd la Chun Der/apt." M de a, Wonbay, an I Madras. Slte.ton Castle Mai or. aid Bo . The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Vlednen day next. - • The Gentlemen intending to contra& far dal Lottery, yesterday met Mr. PITT in Dowairg street ; the following are the particulars : No Ir'•b or private Lotteries ; the Lottery to be combatted and regulated the same as List year; also oisr ments, discount, and dtpoeit. The biddin,z to tali. place to-morrow, at eleven o'cli.ck t tssciity-fi thousand tickets, at 101. each: The draw' to commence the List Monday to Z:eptembet(t: .4. 11 )* Tea days drawing, two dais in - each wet a • . • Gold:mid wig revived &cid to An i n g the pro executed vet ed rya" vet 1 1,. t he night, comic burin] pitying of pl.tyed an He was um or look. be c onception. tu sar—" riance can n tinue, howei tion of the Croaker' , sci ter of an ini was the suco posed incen though no i comic a6tor just confidet most esteem siguity, wii mere shade+ nerally wel that it will The Hot overflowed with a mos Yester.h Their Mai ELM • MST arrived at 1 the Duke JUrf. __ - - - At half Levee, W - 0111.1.0 ft, t Bsc AAAAA Doke at; Alacquis o EA111.1*( tit Riven. SI 111—. H. Mr. Gibbi Tie ial MAJcsTY V ir-ary Gi poi i tell Chit b1an.5.14. Marquis Master of tl Loge Lc chmut Oo Lai His a. A: oire Counc: l , and bad t' JISTY'S P Pr , ard acc A fZervt: to Kir. PI now. tth ; .J 9 if Queen's F Yesterd Lady Cu Nal the P Cmint rita , 44. t", Mr. S.n.' e. M: Muqter, 11/en, N 1 ri iiirs. M'•s K and Lord AAA awl I awl Lad• J 5t...1 v. 1.1 114.1 , d.,r.t /layman, Tii Hon S. , Inereli, maid MN. Mr Jad:o Carter, I Mr. T non J...hnsun„ Vie uc just stilt tura! Fits Sir Jos! r Th.! tw c bwelli Mr. St aa. th e I Mn. as not to where s f, Light. On T who had inter 1 'gh of ( inner w Du h oo , Duke o f Gmerat e"lined Ther e which ha riaore N th. s t nient to and ea c h not t o be iota tolie gave low be was withhs &tit utional nut to be I pj a gmat rew justice to th to enter the the rights o ' se be an a& i..T.iLi the I Mel 1 eV&Zr jos tics, mid words ef 1 lt might I vent litigant would be to don Tame were compl provision ll f i licences. I Parliament the same. on inseratsc heavy grief • other way 1 i' Ile then ate mittee that two Bills. The Cl- said, the pi ) for, had be had applied t in ie would, re ad =salon, he part. he hat wished, lad ' Gentleman 4;1 him. so as At was not l go uver ant withheld. The great object of laws was to prate& the rights of the weak against the strong, Cie poor against the rid: ; and Dr. Johnson had given it as his opinion, that to bring a poor man and a rich man into a Court .of Law on equal terms was a desiderJutn. What would he have said, had be known the stamp duties on law proceedings now, when they are arrived at such a height, that it is the pat t of et cry honest solicitor to tell parsons ap plying to hint, " Unless t'e property you %rant to recover is of sii..ll a v.dtie, is not worth suing for." l'alking of the expression Ai vendetaio, he contend ed it might fairly be called selling justice, inasmuch as these stamps are an express denial of it, b^cause you cannot pay for it. Though he had objeteted to a Bill brought in by an lion. and Learned Gentle man, for preventing misdemeanors, and would not give f.icility to certain societies to bring public pro secutions for private wrongs, lie ssislied to give every facility to persons prosecitritig the recovery of their own private property. The motion, therefore, had his hearty concurrence. After a few words in explanation, from Mr. PIT r and Dr. Lacasuca ; _ The question w•as put, and the Callrry cleared, but no vision took place. When re-admired, we found the House in the Committee, Mr. ALEXANDER in the Chair. Mr. SI IHRIDAN objefted to letting the Sche dule be made part of the Bill, till the :recounts which had been the ()Net of the last debate were settled. This occasioned a further conversation of some length between Mr. PITT, Mr. SHUMAN, Mr. W. DUNDAS, Mr. S. BOURNE, Mr. W. SMUT 1, Mr. Ser. jeant BHT, Sir W. EL FORD, Bill Mr. FON IL •SgUlt took part. The question was put, and the clause agreed to without a division. The Committee having gone through the printed part of the Bill, two clauses were introduced : the first, enaaing a fine of 501. from all persons not. ad mitted in the Inns of Court, and otherwise disci:ia lified, who should, for fee or reward, execute any instrument, for granting of leases, mortgage of estates, or transfer of property. The other, le veling duties relative to attorneys and their clients, in bringing causes into the courts, &c. A con versation ensued in consequence, between Mr. P t Mr. SIIIRIDAN, Mr. JOHNSTONE, Mr. STUROCS BOURNE, Dr. Lau a r ace ; after which, at the sugges tion of Mr. Parr, the Chairman reported progress, and asked leave to sit again on Friday. The Officers Frank Bill was read a third time and passe The Bill for amending the Defence Bill was read a third time and passed. The Isle of Man Trade Regulation Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to non ow. The Lottery Bill was committed, and the report ordered to be received to-morrow. The Irish Small Note Bill was recommitted, the report received, and the Bill with the amendments ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time to mormw. The Property Commissioner s Bin was committed, and the report ordered to be received tomorrow. Adjourned at half past eleven. THE BRlTlilt PRESS.