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... F w, • • 4 .040P . 11; . I - -.'• 71 1114•11% Lai! baron Mellow*, and Oleo proceeded to w . It" A t• w nuvervati ,, ,,s tilk the t.iZEK An.: first, laid, respett to th.• swim , . tax, he did not think Ot tight thAt it vz•uuld go to n..te the irts ,, est of the PIA•lonal d.•ht l;is It igiit I forum' Able Liens', th•ceaserl, h , d •t in contenip , eion to tr.ilt.. it a wunrolent taz, hit tint to lace it to the secnilut it is at present proposed ; but is,. 014- i , lure ennsiderAtion, he had re....0n to believe, th i t it would ri..t ht preiduaive, as it mist pin bahly woul.l neeit i•ln a dinli -. u . inn ni the C•in -11:1111i) inn. The taz on i , .no al.n, the late Aden,- - - - nistratinn had in contemplation ; but after even encptiry, it was fun d that a tax of s. a hundred, woal I not produce more than 100,0001, or 120,000. TA tax on app►aisemeats was g:ven up as totally unproduttive ; and the tea tax, they ha•l consi dered in a very different light from th.. Nithle Lord. e lowest-priced tea was on; v. , rcally drank by the lower class of people, sore Imes instead of malt liquors; and it being 1..1 mix% easier to smuggle the common tea, than that which carried a hiel.er price, the tat upon it was altogether aban doned. He also was of opinion, that the high duty on tobacco was an argument against the additional tax. as it wt•ould he a greater iniwcement to a con traband trade The real value ct tiitracco was alv)nt six-pence a pound ; the present duty was one shil ling and seven pence, and the addi•inn proposed was six-pence t so that, in an article so easily smuggled, lie conceived the temptatation would be reopurt onahly great. The lion. Gen . then adverted to the difl : .•rent financial measures which had been adopted by Mr. Pitt, all of which, he said, were of the greatest service to the country. He coal not forbear tu-ntioning, what be lately had accidentally • `.e'en trade acquainted with, namely, •hat the num ber of ships taken from the enemy, dining the ad• .istrat•na of his deceased Friend, was greater than had ever hefore been captured, since the Revo lution. Ile th:•n adverted so the unt ivalled glory of the British flag and Atlas, and hoped that the Noble Lord. sie l 4.ll he ',tired from office, wtaili leave the Adti , n at levt in as good state as he lnu:vl it. Mr. HIANCIS and Lord HI.Ni:Y PETTY explained Mr. LONG trespassed upon the time of the House but to reply to an allusion made by a Noble Lord, in an earlier scige of the debate. that II- (Mr Lang) had ride a charge aAairst that Neste Lord, in his ahleisce, on a previous evening, of unhand!. comely and unjustly attributing to the late Chan cellor of the Exchequer the leaving great arrears of rearms.. to he provided by his successor. Ht had made no charge of illiberality against the Noble Lord, but had merely attempted a ♦indication of his predecessor. The a rrears which now presont►d themselves in the public accounts. were not the ac cumulation of last veer, but arose tram deficiencies that had been regularly carried forward born year to year, and the amount of which bad been, in most years, encreased by , additional items i though, at the pr sent time, they were not larger than the out standing demands of last year. A desultory conversation then ensued between Mr. Jonnstuor, Lord Henn• Petty. Mr. Hiley Ad dington. Mr. &urges Bourne, and Mr. Ward, which elicited noth cg new. Mr. BROOKE offered a few objections to the additional duty on sugar, as I kely to lessen the consumption, and consequently prejudicially ale& our West India islands, which had already suffered silica ly by the levy of war tames 1 in which light he thonght the contributions they were compelled to afford to the french fleet, whilst in tilde qurter, •nght to be v - insidered. Mr. A I KINS alto saw serious objections w the tax. In reply to a question from Mr. Babington, re specling the opeiation of the proposed Property Tax on the yeoman►y and farming interests of the countiy, possessing land worth Sol. a year, and the profit of which they augment's' by their own labs.ur, Mr. VANSITTART said, that the scale by which the tar was to bt collecled, would commence at 501. and vrocecd by arithmetical progression to incomes of lOul. per annum, when the highest duty of 10 per cent. wniild attach. The several resolutions were then put and agreed to, and leave given to bring in the Bills purseant thereto. The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Ordnance Bill, whit!) was ordered to be re- sommitted to-morrow. Mr. VANSI I' I'AR f moved, " that there he laid before the House an account of the general quar terly average priCes of raw and Muscovado sugar, eseusive of duties, for the last six years; and an account of all iron and iron-ware exported during the la►t ten eats."—Ordered. Ordered also, that the House will, on Thursday, the 17th of April, resolve itself into a Committee on the Tortola Fite Pnrt Bill ; and on Wednesday next into a Committee fur the farther consideration of the Ways and deans. • • hlr. VANS[I•TART gave notice that he would, on WedaeseLy, move for an issue of Ex chequer Bills to the amount of 3,030,0001. l i Adjourned. FOALIUS INTELLIGENCE. 11AMBURGII MAIL. aaassiaoa, ssaacis 25. It is conri-lently asserted here, oil the authority of pliYilte letters from Berlin, that the following propo.als form a sonshlerable part ul the negoti ations penoin,{ between France and Prussia. It was intended to ()Juin the consent of the Emperor a Russia, if possillie; but in (Ale that should not be granted. France engages, in ce::;uullion with Prussia. and her other allies. to endeavour t o e g e a them by force a assns. Prussia to eel,: *CU arm squarT leagues of her possessions, and to secure, in hest the , c,f, 701, which will consist of tic lolli:wi,:g ctiu,;:ries : Ist, The: DuiV r y i silenhu•g!l who.r Sovet A , •:11:1 tXdbi:V", I CI with a pi deficit. :•,"& ' Al , " ININIM...- t;',\ nuke up cv..ty et Tr An; THE BRITISH PRESS. LON I KIN. • TUESDAY, APRIL I. An interesting conversation took place, last night, in the House of Common*, upon the subjea of the new taxes. It is intended that the operation of the Property Tax •hall commence at 3Ll'i. a year. All between 501. and tool. a year is to he charged upon a reduced scale, and all above 1001. a year, is to pay to the full extent of 101. per cent. with a right, however, to in-payment to the amount of any ex emption to which the party may prove himself en titled. Some French and Dutch Papers, of a day liter than those from which we made some extraCis yesterday, have been received at nor office. A letter from Naples, dated February 211, in a Dutch Paper, states, that the two Calabrias had submitted to the French; that the Leo . y.en-Moue had dispersed, and that the PRI,CC ROYAL had embarked for Sicily. The Msnriestr, however, takes no notice of any such event. The Hamburgh Mail, due on Sunday, arrived yesterday. - An article, under the head of Ham burgh, March 23, gives an alarming view of the new revolutionary schemes of BONAPARTE in the North of Germany. It states, urn the alleged au thority of letters from Berlin, that he demands from Prussia a farther cession of 40.) square leagues of her territory; in exchange for which, she is to receive a territory of much greater extent, to consist of the duchirs of Nlecklenburgh Schwerin, Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and Brunswick, the whole of Austrian Sile sia and Gallicia, the Duchy of Holstein, and Swe dish Pomerania. Some of the Princes thus divested of their estates, are to receive pensions, or to be in demrdtied in land ; Austria is to receive in compen sation, the Turkish Provinces of Bosnia, Servia, Wallachia, Moldavia, arid the whole of Ottoman Dalmatia ; but the King of SWCD►N is to be sent completely adrift, and the remainder of his king dom is to be given, part to the King of Dania • is, and part to Runt*, should the latter consent to this scheme of plunder and partition. 'Phi: plan is supposed to constitute a consider:ll'de part of the nrgiriiiations now pending between France and Prussia ; but it is said to have- been rejeded by- Russia ; in which event the contracting pates have engaged to carry it into etre& by farce of arms.— The c.inni:ciion of some of di se Pounces with the House of I ianover, and the deA,!ly hare which Bo bears to the gallant and generous King of Swi.uss, give a strong degree of probability to this r"""te=~ - . -••. • rep, rt. It is eat. stret.gtheard by the prover ding, of Swedon and Ilittsia. The Beariargb Cow, kpandenten, of the 2:ill, Estes, that the Ssce2ish Army still remains in Lauenherg, where it is to 'r• ttinforced by a curs of I'2,(k) from the interior ; and that the Swedish maritime forces are to be im media ely got ready for 104. The Ritssi.,n army under General Mictszt.sos also lingers upnu its return, And warl;ke prepsrstions ars carticd on with extratirdiciary aftirtry in crery part of thst empire. lite Mediterranean (feat is artived at Plymouth, under convoy of the Chlias frigate and Marti' .loop. Yesterday morning, the Dukes of YORK and C * lit BR IDO E attired at iVindsor, from town. Princesses ALGUSTA and SOPHIA, accompanied by Cenci:Al Maio:tag, Count Mtssrts, Colonel Thy ton, on liorscbAck, and Lady CsAistest, in a caw i;e and pair, took an airing in Ys'ii:dior Great I heir Maaaszies had a Concert, at the Castle, on Sunday night. The workmen have begun to fit up Westminster Hall, preparatory to the trial of Viscount MELVILLE. ,:nine Ansetican Papers el the 12th of February state, that the Committee on that part of the Presi dent's Message relating to this country, have pro posed several Resolutions, in which, Ist, the President is required to insist upon the restoration of the Amer ican property captured and condemned ; and fldly, the expediency of the non-importation of British goods is urged. A motion for putting an erd to the intercourse with this country has been made by one of the members. An article from New Yolk, of the 10th of February, says, 6. the subjea of the non-importation of British goods has been de ferred in the Lower House of Congress, for a few days ; in the mean time, the Secretary of the Trea sury is to lay before the House an account of Ex ports and Imports to and from Great Britain." The Hight lion. GEORGE PoNS/NRY, the new Lord Chancellor of Ireland, on Lis landing at I)nh. lin, on Tuesday last, was drawn by the popul vie to the Castle, where he was snorts into office. .1 rie populace had waited the whole morning in eager r-xpeclation of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of BEDFORD, and determined to give them a simi lar reception. The Drirgerne sloop of war, on Friday, sent into Boulogne Roads a boat, with the gunr:er, purser, and twelve men, to endeavout to cot something out ; hut they were discovered 11 the Frenchmen on shore, and are taken and carried into Boulogne. It is probable that the boat has lest several of her crew, as she sustained a heavy fire. 'I he Thetis h igate, ('apt. Gan', arrived on Son day at Harwich from Cuxhaven, with Lord Kiw is sow, having on board S90.0.)01. in specie, part of the Subsid y intended for the Emperor of Cea ra ANN', had he not consented to a peace with the French. The Hall Perlet, —, from Hull, for New castle; and the Versus, Timm pans, from Hull, for Whitby, were captured, rof Flamborough-head, on the 23J inst. by a French privateer ; the former is since retaken, and arrived at Yarmouth. Admiral Ben - cloves, Gen. Ptcries, the Hon. Mr. Sstrru's. J. E. KENWARTHE',, and J. F. liorroson's, F.scps. barouches, vin's, and tandems, now finishing, are the gaze of New Bond-street- The disorder of which the Duchess of Devon- SHlllt died, is not ascertained. It is supposed to have originated in some coal-conformation of the brain. this opinion has been suggested by the ex cessive pain in that part, and the sinking in of the protruded eye. It is, we understand, the inten tion of the family to have the head opened, for the purpose of ascertaining the real cause. The remains of her Grace will be interred in the family vault, at Hardwicke-hall, Derbyshire. A Precept was signed, on Saturday, appointing the trial of Mr. Pao& for the murder of Mr. BLIGHT, to be held at Horsemonger-lane, in the Borough, on Saturday next A Jary has been sum moned to attend on that day. The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, of the City or Edinburgh, have appointed a ( ieneral Meeting, on Siturday next, to determine upon corn,- poblic expression of the high sense entertained of the Earl of Mot It A'S merits, by that City. An order from his Excellency the Lord lieute nant has been received by the High Siietiff of the county of •ripperary, for liberating James Riordan, a trite prisoner, confined for three years back on suspicion of high treason.—( Droilin Paper.) The following is the House List, for Governors and llsrector, of me Bank of England. for the year ensuing : ro■ (DIMINO'S. REVSIOD Long, Esq. (;uvernnr. Air kook Watauu, dart and Ald. Uap. Governor. POD DIRECTORS. Alexander R.ir;ng, Egg. William Mellish, F.+ Tumnas ',Wampum, Is Sir Richard Nesse, Bart. Samuel RosaHeusi, Erg Charles rule, Esq. John Bowden, Thomas Raikes, Esq. Cornelius ►tulier, Esq. John Bsk►r Richards, Esq. A'eaa•rder Criamnum, q. rdward Suitor:in, Fa.(. Esq. Henry Smith, Samuel Dreier, Earl. Samuel Thornton, Esq. NatEatriel Bugle French, Esq. Stephen Thoruhm, Ere. Jeremiah Hannan, Esq. Samuel Furrier, just. Eli. E-q. John Whitmire, Fog Thomas Lewi , , b.q. lienjamm Winthrop, Esq. elettion for Governor and Deputy-Governor will he held on Tuesday, the Ist; and cf Directors, nn IVeJoes•lay, the 2.1 of April next, from ten the tortnoun, till four in the afterncon. Duchy of Nleckientsur a ti Strelia, witu.e Prince 1. tu ut pensi4,ned 1. .r 3J, The Duchy 1,1 Brunswick, whose Sovereign and descendants, in dirt line, are to be p:n•ioned, and the Duke himself permitted t o remain as So vereign, in his capital, during the remainder of his 4th. The wh,,le of Austrian Silesia and Callicii, for which the Emperor of Austria is to he indemni fied by the Turkish provinces of ServiA, Moldavi.i, and the whole of the Otto man DahuAti.t. sth, The Ki: , g of Sweden to be dethroned, and pan of his domii,ioas to he given (if the Emperor Alexander cement to the plan of spoliation) to Ittmia : the retiainder of die kingdom of Sweden :o Denmark ; on these conditions, shall pit Prussia in plssesstou of Holstein and Swediih Po rnerania. According to the last advices from St. Peters. burgh, these proposals have been rejeBed. (F.in the ILmtbstret Car rnponeenrea of the 25th March The Swedish army still remains in Lauetiburg ; His Swedish Majesty in Ratzburg ; a new corps of 12,000 men Las been ordered from the interior of Sweden to reinforce the shove troops. On the 231, the Adjutant-General of the Emperor of Russia set out on his return to St. Petersburg, vie Hamburgh and Berlin. All the Swedish maritime forces are to be got ready for sea immediately. 'ln?. Russian army of reserve, under General Michelson, remains in the neighbourhood of The respol. the Emperor Alexander, passing through Breze, conferred, on that General, the order of St. Andrew ; he is also to be appointed Con:manlier in-Chief of five Russian divisions. Private letters from the Ru-sian frontier, or the 18th inst. describe the roads of that country as co vered with artillery, ammunition waggons, and troops. On the frontiers, an immense army is al ready collated; and the recruiting„ in the interior, goes on without interruption. The armies that lately returned from Moravia, Austria, and Bohe mia, are kept in readiness to alt. •.• "fho length of the Parliamentary DeWitt ha• obliged us to defer our Monthly List of new Publications until to morrow. CORI:-EXCHANG 1%1 RCN 31. Wboat ir stain arri.ed to day in bet short supplies, and steer early is Ilan day. formless sareules, were at the ettvitsce of Ii a,id fa. per Qu'irter, but afterwards rattler beat BA, N. y i n :nit umifling sue.plie4, and at near!y as our Is i. 11111 , •11-, bent , ' sale. White Pees likewi.e. Nov Tick Roans in gond supply. Ilay.ng many fresh arrivals of /mein Oats, c.w.0.. sales in this trade at lower prices ' exeeptuig prime samples. Flour in good supply, and (cwises a small advance, CURRENT I'RICE Ur GRAIN. .V hem 5........ 444. 641. ns. I SeNll• ‘,. Nil, ).... 93. 31.. OJ. true de........741 76s tad T tit Beans (dn.) V as. 32, 0 , .. !tee 35. 40.. (.4 Oats 21., 24.. 93.. "Dade, Vrea. Sits. 61 $ P..tands lr k 90. Od Hale. . 625. 62 .Od ' Rape Seed 331. 411 Ott 410411 N 15.... 34 . ans oi. 1 Flue }lour 6es. Cis Gd ( 3 , ../yPer.•....1110s 316. 0.1. , liete. ds.„, Sit*, 608 Oat. LAM !NTT LtICL N't: P. COLMT CF CHANCERY, Lexcol Twu, AI Lc.. 51, CH MIMEOS v. CM 41111EtS. . • This cause came en to be heard, upon exceptions to the Master's Report, taken by the father of he minor Plintiffi. The parents of these children had been separates! under some very unhappy ciec t i : , stance?, the event of which was an aftion at is a the particulars are of puhl:c notoriety. The chit. dren, who trete eight in number, were each intitle.l to a small independent prorcrty ; and some time ago the father applied to the Court, for certain a:lowances from their income, to defray - the penes of their maintenance and education, at h e was unable, at that time, to do so at his own cost I but havirg since Provided for six of them, he new applied to maim du the two youngest, Jane, his only daughter, and Courtenay. his youngest son. Tl.e l ate chanzellee referred the matter to the Miami ; and Aaron Graham, Esq. was appointed trustee to t h e minor's pieperty by the Court, who furibur ordaed, that dm father should have the pourr of nominating selmols for them, provided ho did not app:i.va of those named by the Mauer. It appeared by t!:e report, that the Master hat put line Ckiti , berg ut Mr'. Hurst's school, at Kensilngton, hy the r. commendation of the mac, ; but the f ehcr cbjete 1. and wished to remove her to Camden Noose, althorgh the Master had asesrs tattled, that Mrs. Hurst's was equally creditat.fe, and not more than half as expensive. It als , ) was stated, that Mr. Chambers had aporcpria;el tha monies of ore child to the use of another ; and hait taken away his daughter from Kensington sch , ;:!, and placed her in a poor seminary in Huatioldun sh re, sh e tow remaire. Upon ti.ese gr , ,nilds, Mr. Fagots , * t. and Mr. FINCn, on behalf of Mts. Chambers, contended that the father was an improper person to have the cus tody and management of Oct:- children, and that the Cntirt shoidd interfere, and appoint a proplr person to superintend &heir mainterance And edu cation. The Soctcorott-Grara•i„, and Mr. FON st.apcqvr, on the other hand, contended, tha: it merit be admitted, the mother v. as C.e mot im proper person in the world to interfere in the edn. cation of the Minor, ; and inkisied, that the Court wraild newt- take child out of the custody o: the father, but upon the strongest grounds of mist n duCt on his part. 'l'he groat rat jesl of Mr. Chamhcrs was to prevent the mother horn access to only daughter, whom he wished to proted from her in fluence and her ex mph:. Tne Loan Cu %NC Lt.r.oit consilered that this was a case in which his Nulde Predecesuir had made an order, and it would be disrespetlfitl is him to at tempt an explanation of that order, till he should first cnastalt that Noble Personage upon the subjea. hljs Lori elip extremely lamented she unhappy si tuation of this family, the circumstances of whose misfortunes he declared himself well acquainted with. The Lady was et noble birth, hieing one of the daughters of the late gallant and brave Admiral Lord Rodney. who first formed the plan cf breaking the enemy's line, by which we have since obtained so many sipnal yietoties. He therefore deferred his judgment to a future dry. NAP'4I, 1/O.I.hI.IGIiNCEs P:. T • MOUTN, ILA lIICU V. Sailed the I rer7pd of .51 go ts, Capt kaggetf, with a convoy for the Cape of Good !lope and the alSt Irldlei ; the Lady RlPeel., EON St. VOICOIf, seVelll4.• - , I V.friCMI/r4V 9 Lord ehen, and Simon 4. 1 first lnd nmeni went with the convoy : Also the Strcrurous gun-vesse:, on a cruise ) anJ the Gibra:- tar, of 80 guns, Capt. Lukin, for Plymouth. Went nut of harbour, the Champion, of C 4 guns, Capt. Brumley. PLYNOVTR, SSA RCN 29. Arrived the airvmn, frigate of 3ti guns, Captain Campbell ; and Martin slonp, of 18 wins, Captain Savage, from the Mediterranean, with the follow ing vessels under convoy, via. the Anna, Franck from Smyrna ; Sarah Ann, MAIM. from Zimte ; Marv. Taylor, from Messina; AO, Harris, from Venice ; Adrian, Thomas, from Cephalonia ; and the Amphitrite, Leary, from Gibraltar. The fleet sailed on the Ist of March, consisting of 18 sail ; but the rest were dispet sed by four French frigates and 1 corvette, which came out of Ca.!iz and chased the fleet. The corvette was captured by Lnrd Cel lingwood's cruisers ; and they were in chase of the frigates; also the Brie Bred -rl. Bleskett, from Cote, detained be the nap. , Ifetnrn ; Hrur Ciarlottr, Moore, from New York, &tamed by t! lion privateer; Ardroiarele, !TOM MAI4g . . detained by the Dart pr iv ,stert ; Flom, In~rah u. from Charleston and the Alincrve, Love, front • tevideo. MEE rinus OF CM Et)IToRS AT GUILLHIALI., To-hionNow. Core. Orrir, Compton -4m et, Soho, Migidlwx, /lawn . 2 10 Fra:se• La* a Milton, next Sittinginnirnr, Kent, balker - . 2 10 CIUIAL-INARKET. 31. Shpt at Market. Sold. hies. 3.. Newcastle 7 Ws 01 a lila (MI I ..St.ose Coal .. I Co 1.1 a C 1 PttICE. tat , ' STJCIGS.IES'IERUA t. S per Cant. Conan, S par Cent. Navy tie; 5.1 Insp.:rail 3 per Cam. • thnntutn Eactiegina hits ....,..ta. dia. par 2.i. do , English Lotte,y 191. lat. CUllook ter F. ISISII, Stock•Biaicer, Ng 4, Cuvahill, and 9, Chem% Cron i)EAriis`. On Sr tssiday everine, aged 7J, at hie home, in Vp• Them —treat, Thomas Dennis' E.rt. huir.mesclarat„ m many yeas: Deputy at the Ward of Dometle. On Su:nlay lam, i., Ureat Pre., cot.st•eet, Mrs. Aliee T. =lst, w Wow et John Tennant, Gentleman, formes!), of W. • an Latireelisre, _ Late', a bi,deira, when the bad gone for the bewir her hva;th, Lady 4:dorigtana Augur* knot. 4.-an to tie ?i• qu tof 3tatrutd, and the Doable.' P. awn.' HI4II WAI bk THIS DAY A i ) r. bis . S mrst.efkt I I F.! .... .9 am , I - - LUNDUN r—Peintell by • DAVIDSON. Md. 17, Duke'. qt, 134w.otteett, C 'vent Garda's, and r0t:..% • • No d, / 1 ... k of St. t le.nont C' , orah In W. S I UCK., of NV 7, Ns'. 11,1t..-.4. of. 1. r 0/Jers, lie.•tur tit . raver. aoct to the Latt.e (in.t ell' be rlta.y attended to. ..t I: :. ~~,/I - 10 Uu - • ....:.. • • ,U elb eTiac' • • . 041 Moan iNisson cviat , S'Afroti mint I.ne, B.*, I Xelly ; rock Ste./.1 •••. , .....M A T every A li4C el; fncni Pa 4 ing. 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