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Et4PERML- PARLIAMEN HOUSE OF PEERS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17. Th► various Bills before the House were forwarded in their respe&ive stages. Among these were, the Cinnamon Duty, and the Annual Indemnity Bills, which Were read a third . time,'and passed. And a Message sent to acquaint the Com mons therewith. •- The Mutiny Bill was brought up from the Commons by Mr. ALEX A NDER, and forthwith read a first time. One Private Bill was brought up"by Sir G. Sn.ueit. BURGH. / SOme Private Business was disposed of, and a number of •"Witnesses sworn. Alter which, their Lordship adjourned till To-mOrrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17. GENERAL MAJTLAND.took the oaths and his seat for Haddington, &c. A Message frorn the Lords informed the House,. their Lordships had agreed to the One Million Ex chequer Bills 'Bill, the Cinnamon Duty Bill, the Indemnity Bill, anda private Bill. • Mr. CATHERWOOD, from the Office of Corn Returns, presented an Account of the Average, Price of the different - sorts of Grain in England and Scotland, from' the sth of July, rBor, to the s:h of, January, IScyz, distinguishing the different Prices in each Month. Ordered to lie on the Table. The Marine Mutiny Bill was read-a third time tnd passed. Mr. FOSTER moved for a new Writ for Queen's County, in Ireland, in the room of the Right Hon. C. COOT E, now Lord COTLECOOTE, a Peer of the United Kingdom.—Orderede FINANCE OF IRELAND. • Mr. CORRY moved the Order of the .Day for the House to resolve itself into a Committee on the Irish Duty Bill. _ _ The House having resolved itself into a Com- mittee, Mr. ROBSON said, he found there was an Aft. similar to the present, passed in the month of March listyear, and that-, in the month . of July, e an Aft was passed repealing a part of the former . AEI ; he wished, therefore, to know, whether the present Bill referred to the A& passed in July. • , Mr. CORRY - said, that certain Duties had been enafted by several Afts of the Parliament cafe Ire land, .which were continued by an Aft of the last Session. Some of these Duties had been either al tered or repealed by other ACts, The object of 'the present Bill was, to continue those Duties for a year subject to the operation of all ,the Alts re jative to those Duties • which had been previously passed, and which would stand precisely in the same situation in which-they then did. Mr. ROBSON said, the ()Ned pf the AEI passed in July; was to add a fifth to all the pensions in Ireland, by taking off the duty which was before paid upon them. The present Bill would confirm that aft, if it was the opinion of the House that the ACI should be confirmed ; he should say nothing more upon the subject, but he thought the House ought to beaware, that such would be the effe& of the present Bill, and he considered this an oppor tunity to discuss the objea- of the A& for repeal ing the Duty which he had alluded to. Mr. CORRY said, the Hon. Gentleman was per feeitly right when he stated that the Ad passed in July would be • confirmed by the present Bill, and that the Duty . repealed by that ACI would still stand repealed. The tax alluded to, was a Duty of 4s. in - the pound, imposed upon all persons who were absent from Ireland, by an Aft of the Parlia ment of Ireland. After the Union had taken place, when all distinction between the two countries • was done away, it was held to be absurd that a man should be taxed for living in one part - of the United Kingdom in.preferenee to another. In con '.sequence of this, 'it was proposed to the House, in the last Session, to repeal the •tax, the amount of which - was then ,stated, and, appeared to be, - only to,ooole a year.. The House thought it consistent with propriety to repeal the tax, and'it would still remain repealed under the present Bill. Mr. ROBS(:).N said,t he could not conceive why :the ACt for the Repeal :of the Tax was not proposed _at the time the Taxes for the year were brought forward. • The, A%t must, he said, have passed with out any debate, as he had never heard a word of it. His reason for mentioning it now to the House, was that they 'might know what they were doing,- as the Tax being once taken off, he supposed, they • should otherwise have heard no more of it, but the Repeal would have been regularly confirmed every year, without any notice being taken' of it. Mr. STEELE said, be ought to apologize for troubling the House ; but as it appeared to be the objea of the Hon.'Gentlernan to inform the House; that there was an addition of a Fifth to . the Places and Pensions on the Irish Establishment,it was his objeft to state what appeared to him to be the real nature, of the case; The Tax alluded to, was a Tax imposed upon Persona -holding Places and Pensions in Ire land, who were Absentees from that Country, and - . was in the nature of a penalty, or punishment, • for. that Absence, as the Tax applied only to those Places and Pensions which were held by Persons ,residing out of Ireland. The Honourable Gen , tleman had supposed, that the Tax must have been repealed without any debate upon the subject, as he had heard nothing of it. It happened, however, that there was a debate relative to the repeal of that , Tax; and the probability was not only, that the Honourable Gentleman must have heard it, but that he must have 'taken a part in it. There was a general feeling with respeCt to the Tax, that as the tyvo Countries had become one United King dom, a penalty ought no longer to be infliaed upon • a Subjea residing in this. part of it, in preference to theother, particularly when he might be called here, and, - in a manner, compelled to stay here, by e . his public duty. Upon the. impulse of this feeling, the measure of the Repeal of the Tax was brought forward: the produce of the Duty was also stated, Which being founl so trifling, that, together with several other circumstances, induced the greater part of the House to concur in its repeal, and he trusted the Tax would still remain repealed. Mr. JONES said, if he understood the Bill rightly, it .went to repeal a certain 'fax. The produce of this Tax was stated to be only to,oool. a-year, and therefore of no consequence but these - sums of zo,oodl. and 10,0°01.. a-year, and other small sums, might go towards the repeal of the In. -come Tax—[Mr. JoxEs was proceeding to make observations relative to the Income Tax, but there being aloud cry of " Order, Order," he Yat doyvh.] Mr. ROBSo N said, that he understood, that the Pension List of Ireland was paid out of the Civil List, and that the latter was paid cut of the Consolidated Fund. If this was the case, it ap peared to him, tbat rss. : out of every r 7s. ;of this Addition to the Pensions of Ireland, must come out of .the pockets of this Country. Mr. COR•RY said, that the Hon. Gentleman had made a bold and alarming charge, and had rested the decision of the question upon the truth of this faa, viz. that the taking ofr .thest Duties would render it necessary to take so much more out of the joint-fund of the two Countries. Now if the Hon. Gentleman should turn .out to be radically and completely wrong—if he should turn out to be completely deceived in the faa upon which he had founded his assertion —if it should appear that Gieat Britain was in no way whatever concerned in the business---,and if no objeaiori had been made to this measure on the part of Ireland, by whom this expence .vas to be defrayed, he was sure the Hon. Gentleman would not persist in his assertion. How did the faa stand? The Pension of both Countries formed a part of their joint contribution ; the'deduaions from the Irish Pensions are made in the Exchequer of Ireland, and go into that Ex chequer, which is distina from that of Great Britain, consequently every shilling taken from the Pension List 'of Ireland, was a part of its Ways 'and Means, and was totally unconneaed and distina from that of England. The sum would be to be made good by Ireland, and the People of Great Britain would not be affected by it one way or the other. The House would therefore see, if he had made himself understood, — that there was not the slightest foundation for the, Right Hon. Gen tleman's assertion. _ After-a few words from Mr. ROBSoN, the Bill passed through the Committee, and the House hav ing resumed, the Report was ordered to be received 0-morrow. VACCINE INOCULATION. Admiral BERKELEY presented a petition from Dr. Jenner, .for leave to present the Petition to which the Honourable Member had called'the at tention of the House orr a preceding day,,but which .could not then be brought up, on account of the forms of the house not having been complied with. The Petition was brought up and read. Admiral BERKELEY then moved, that the Peti- tion of Dr. Jenner, to which he had before allud ed, should be brought ,up. He should not, he said, add any thing to what he had before stated relative to the subjeft. Mr. HODHO USE expressed his approbation of the objett of the Petition. He trusted, he said, it would be found, that the discovery of Dr. Jenner had exalted Medical Science, and opened new sources of human felicity. The CHANCELLOR of the .EXCHEQUER said that before a Petition of this nature could be re ceived, His Majesty's recommendation was nem-. sary : he had it in command from His Majesty td signify that recommendation. He hoped, it it was the pleasure of the House, that the subjea would be enquired into with every, degree of minuteness, in order that it might be ascertained whether the had or had not been, or was or was not pro duElive of great public benefit ; whether the Peti tioner was entitled to the merit of that discovery, and whether he bad or bad not, or could or could not derive any private benefit from it, If the re_ sult of- this inquiry was favourable to, the Peti tioner, there was no doubt that the House would display that disposition which it always sheaved to remunerate persons of merit, for discoveries of pub lic importance. Mr. WILBERFOIZCE said, that since the in trodudion of inoculation more persons 'bad died in the Metropolis of the small pox than before,. the disease having become more general, in consequence of the freedom of communication with persons af_ flitted by it ; whilst before the introduCtiOn of inoculation, they were treated as if infeded with the most contagious distemper. He therefore wish-. ed that the discovery of Vaccine Inoculation might be, upon inquiry, thoroughly authenticated . . The Petition was then brought up and read, and ordered to be referred to a Select CommiLtee. SUPPLY. Mr. SARGENT. moved the Order of the Day for a Cominitte of Supply, and that the Estimate re_ lative to the Office of Ordnance should be referred to the Committee, which was ordered. The House having resolved itselfinto a Com mittee, • Mr. SARGENT, after observing that the dif ferent Corps both here and abroad, were to be maintained exaedy in the, same state in which they were at present, moved for the Sum of z 66,6661. 13s. 4d. for service of the Office, of Ordnance in Great Britain, during the Months of April and May. Mr. ROBSON said, he . understood that there was a inn of 1, too,oool. at present in the Trea sury, appropriated to the service of the Office of Ordnance ; he could not conceive, therefore, why 1 any farther sum was called for. Mr. SARGENT said,- that Bills were conti nually coming in for- payment from abroad, and money was continually wanted for a number of works that were carrying on, but no more would be asked for, than what was absolutely wanted. After a few words more from Mr. Ro BsoN, the motion was agreed to. The 'Sum of zo,oool. Was also voted for the Ordnance Service of Ireland. The House having resumed, the Report was Or dered tb be received to-morrow, and the Com mittee to sit again on Friday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice, that he should propose on Wednesday' nexi . , in the Committee of supplyi to Mote the Miscellaneous Services, the Accounts of which were ! now on the Table. Mr.-3: ONES Wished to know, what Papers the Right Hon. Gentleman alluded to when he spoke of Miscellaneous Services. _ _ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'saia, he, did not know that he could answer the Hon. Gentleman's question with accuracy, except by stating, that the Aets of Parliament which - referred to them were on the Table. The Services he alluded to were the Interest of Exchequer Bills, the Expences .of the Loan and Lottery, one-third of the Purchase of the biike.of Richmond's Annuity, &c. It was his intention to have presented other Papers, if they had been prepared in time. A Paper would probably be presented to-morrow, with regard to which, if the House 'thought it so im portant as to require any delay, he should not pro pose to vote it with the others on Wednesday. While he was up he wished to state, that he had been in formed that the printed Copies of the Civil List Report would not he ready for delivery till Mon day next, therefore he • would postpone the Motion of which he had given notice for Monday, till Fri day se'nnight. The Committee of Ways and Means was put off till Friday. Adjourned at, Five o'clock till to-morrow. THE SUN. SOLENT QUIS Ricfuts, FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDO N, MARC if 18, ISoz. THIS forenoon we received, and we believe ex clusively, the Maniteurs of rie 14th and ssth inst. They contain the Official Dispatches from St. Do nzinga, with a Detail of the Operations there, from which" it appears that the French Force has met with the most determine& resistance from the Blacks. There are Letters irorn both the Ad miral and General; • That of the former being the most precise; we shall extraa the most ma terial points, reserving the full details till to-mor row, as we are pressed in point of time, and the Details are very long. The Letter from Admiral VIZ.LARET _is dated Feb. loth, from on board the Ocean, in the Road of the Cape. He gives an account of his voyage, and they made Cale Santana in +6 days from their leav ing Brest. _ _ . On the zd of February the Division, of General ROCHAMBEALT landed in the Bay of Mancenille. A Mulatto named SANGOS, exercising the office of Captain of the Port at the Cape, went on board the Ocean. Incte'ad of consenting to,pilat her into tlie Cape, he declared that the Black General CHRrs•roftsE had ordered him to acquaint us, that the Whites would be massacred, and the City set on fire, the instant the Squadron attempted the Har. hour, if the French 'refused to wait the return of a Courier which he had sent to TOUSSAINT LQu VERTURE. The French Commanders thought that so des perate a 'resolution could only have been -inspired by fears injurious to the French Government. The General in Chief, LECLERC, wished to write to CHRISTOrI-IE, to inform him -of the friendly in. tentions of the Chief Consul, and to attempt to bring him back to his duty, by explaining what was due to a Soldier and a Frenchman. Ensign LEBRUN was charged with 'this delicate mission. The Cap tain of the Port was kept on board s and the Fleet stood off and-on. On the 4th, LEBRUN brought back the Answer' of General CIIRISTOPHE, containing an absolute refusal to receive the Army, and a positive resolu tion to burn the City in case the French persisted. CHRISTOPHE had. formally. declared that he would receive no orders but those of ToussAIN.T. A Deputation of the Inhabitants of the Cape went on bbard the French' Admiral, begging him to desist, as the City would oth-trwise be destroyed. In the mean time the twenty_four hours requested for the Answer of TOUSSAINT elapsed ; while all private accounts agreed, that he was in the City, or at leist in the neighbourhood, the invisible spring of all the movements that had taken place. The General in. Chief sent back the Deputation, ordering the Mayor to read to his Fellow-citizens the Proclamation of. the FIRST CONSUL, and to ex plain to them the perfidious intentions of their Chiefs. C/ESAR TELEMACHUS, a Negro truly French, per formed that duty with the most heroic courage. From that moment it was necessary for us to giVe up all hopes of saving the City, or permit the French Laws and the Honour of the Government to be trampled under, foot. . On the same day the Syrene Frigate brought in telligence of the successful disembarkation in the Bay of Mancenille, and the entry of the French Troops into Fort Dauphine. All the . Troops were embarked on board the Fri gates, Boats, and Canoes, and stood in the night , towards Lim/6 but the calm prevented them from arriving during the night. On. the Sth in the morning, the Division of Frigates had not arrived at its destination, when Di patches were brought . from .General RuctiAm. ,e • B Env respeaing the Expedition to Fort Dau.Ph i49 ' The Blacks had opposed the 'disembarkation in th , Bay of Mancenille,. crying, "No French ! - Whites !" at the same time firing at the Canoes. -; On the same day alarm guns along the Coast, ac,4 • I! the flames from some of the Settlemen ts, plain ~1 disclosed the designs of the Rebels.. While the debarkation was going on from' tb e Frigates, two Ships were ordered to present then .r ' selves at the entrance of the Harbour, to draw urc''' them the attention of the Enemy. A fire of Cank' )° 44o and Bombs was immediately opened on these Ves'' l '' The approaCh of night obliged the Fleet to retir, from the Coast, when , the refle&ion from the 11 ° 6 ' , -zon announced that the City was on 'fire, and French Troops were obliged the whole nigh t- 9 1 witness this scene, without being able to lend a i l 'assistance. On the following day, the French Admiral taki"g. advantage of the first breeze, made fur the Harb °° ' ordering all' the Ships to follow him. 'The F°r , ts wete abandoned,, and the Squadron anchor ed at bLe Mole without damage. The Ships"' Crews " c . immediately disembarked. The French r ft °4s arrived in.time to save the lower part of the City. f The French Troops had taken possessi on Of the CoUntry between the Gape and Fort Dagn bille. General LECLERC, in his Letter, dated Feb' C ' l e is gives' ,a detail of his operations subsequent t ° landing. At three in the afternoon of th e 4tbt 119. reached Port Margot. The disembarcatia" scl.s effeded- near that of LitabS. The Enemy' 113 " 1 or ; Battery which played upon the French, but tl ' e ' landed without loss, t The Advanced Guard reached the River a t . o'clock. General CHB. isToP HE was posteLf half. a league of them, at Marne-Eng/jib ;- --Gerler ,,. HARDY, with his Division, moved to that poi'' , at half a league on the road to the Cape he ine' Incendiaries who had come to set fire to t he St men rs. . General LECLERC arrived with the Adv' Guabredtwactetn the heCaTl;otop: cliut seamine)anrea anddkto the fi the rju i g up v The Rebels had set fire to the Cape Town by neral CHRISTOPHA orders. Two Expeditions were on their march few dt-Paix and'the Male. The French Qeneral bad sent to TotissAo' Children, with the Letter of the FIRST atanktiehiet had liven himself s e him lft o to re u c n e d i:e rs t h a i n s t b r i t a issc ti ; e n ha. r, The French Fund's were on the 14z ----,....... THE TWC Hamby7gh Mails that Were CIO rived this morning. By an Article from 4sB ' ~,-, d t' twrop/e, dated January 8, we 'ilf° ' -' t ~it:, . are , some of the Egyptian Pees-are meditating r' .', s l-. ance to the GRAND VIZIER, and that their o r , 3 0,, ~, tion is likely 'to become formidable, from '''A 9 1 1.-o,itions of the Inhabitants Of the tl O Count , 13t:i . are mare attached -te-+he-Cgpover4u-aent of li-1c • 1 than to"that of the Porte. ... - 1 tal es An article from Yienna, of March 3"' s f ; fog , 03. r . reportirom various parts of Rorn4gria , -I . n tha t French Half, brigades are to be stationeLl 1,- - G oo' .. , „ of Country. This has given rise to a varlet} ,e( 1 jeetures. r "' - General 1-IEbouvILLE, and his Su' , c' o ';', ''' . 'through Franckfort on the 6th inst. 0 " n '' St. Petersburgh. . ---..--- getl rsij The KING yesterday morning took ° TI c- - - 1:i" tOlew Palace. ~s5O, /Loi'-; TgEIR MAJESTIES anti the Piz.“ 4 •, - , N , night, honoured the Concert of Anti.° L P;'' with their presence.: , of " :1 ,10 • The Committee appointed by the 14°`1,5-, oil `i(:' , on, Tuesday, is for the purpose of r ep0r 01 , 5 ,0 01 . , 1 part of the Aft which relates to the P-O r ; ba5, 1) : . :/f Peers of Ireland, because,' though a r e , e s f ig - o fv , recently elefted under the present Aa, Iris voting is questioned. The Cornmittcc,,co,iO3, sists of the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lore`-10,t' Lord REESDALE, 'Viscount LONGt7iie6t. the. ' Lord PELHAM, sat yesterday on the s' lL ' e o ;it the' Yesterday a Cortrt‘of Directors w' ts 1 1 ‘ °t :tiir, , East India House, when Captain Buro-t ° „ -- 11; 3t ; of: 41 '; United Kingdom, resigned tine commanu-tGeo6-0 She sailed from Portsmouth for Fort St . n .cco . Bengal, under the command of the firs t - 4 7 Sr , i , i . ote rft s ) i t le ; ALEXAN . D.ER CAMPBELL. Captain SAmsoN, of the Earl -- ov , , 1 0 leave previous to departing for 13''''' 0 ,111 l the only remaining regular ship whicil Portsmouth to take in troops. Yesterday Capt. JOHN RoGE" the Command of the Admiral Ai be the last Ship of the season it Bengal. The Court adjourned at six o'cl.°l °- Is 507 • ;cll sow. &ir WM. B&LLINGHAM is confi attack of the gout, at his house, i,- Mr. ANNESLEY, the Member 1( h e e Dublinbeen for some time past serionslY we a , t h: happy Gazetteto hear he o is f ssoamte‘vcia The promotion of Dr. NATIJANIEL A; Bishopric of Clonfert. General Dux reviewed the DO' Bombadiers on Tuesda3i, and sea' with thOs soldier.like appearance' et t l ' ° ;ett i c , . l' ranch , kep t o a cl' , ' , I 2 , 0: 10 11 .0 : 1 4 Iss uss T , o fo o3 1, 'E'• # oe, 3r/ 1 ' PoNst afi- . . 1 11 1;4 1 rfj r f i.V.L3v115 f u r CIL til l £O l 11) Soc a by 3 s°l', 0 SO0letr;C•I 10Pr. for ftc;.aing,,,,, tlisp os io ca, hat better. • • '3Y, 01e0t100n LEICAI4VO I Oltllteers ne t 101.1‘13 5004- re,,