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'...~ %::"Etil4L PARLIAMEIv HOUSE OP PEERS, TIJ E.SD AY, JUNE J 5. Cc uvs ~ .verc heard at .4o,fne length rrjakive to the Scotch Appeal—Rebecca and "Thomas Lashley; v. ThOnias HOg, of Newliston, Esq. namely—Mr. ATTQR:Niiy GENERAL,' on the part of the Appellants, and Mr. FCoMIitLY, as leading Counsel for the •Respbricient. After which their 4...ordsbips cicferred the farther hearing of th,e case till Friday. • The Neutral Ships Bill—the Hackney Coach Bill—the British Fishery—the French Letters Postage, and ,the West India rocks Amending Bill, were brinight ft,brn the Commons by M r.' ALA XANI)ER attended by se : iferal - %Ment- Jbers. Some,of ,the Bills upo;i the 'cable were forwarded, and ;orne routine business disposed of. Their Lordship then proceeded to the Order of The Day, which was for the ,Co.mtnitment of the . . . Scotch Militia 134.11 7 ---the Hopse accordingly resolved -• into the said Committee, Lord WAL§INGHAM in the Chair. The various Clauses and provisions' of the Bill, As they were submitted to the Committee, produced a great deal of discussion, which passed through the medium of a very long, desultory, and, in some instances, ratter irregular conversation, in which the Eajls of CARrARVON, Rost.tx, and BERICELPY, the 'Dille of Nlimltost, and Lords TyuaLow, HOBARTi and the Logo CU4::;,CE.LLOR, took a part: Yn an early loart of the discussion, a division took place relative U) an Amendment proposed by the Earl of CAR NAr,VON, to the etfeet, that the qualifications for the Deputy Lieutenants, should, instead of 4001. Scots, as proposed by the Bili r be +OOl. sterling.— The numbers were, for the Amendment 6—Against It 16 Majority, 10, . In the course of the 4iscussion it ..transpired, that the Scotch-Militia being by the conclusion of the War in 'far?` dissolved, the Bill was to authorise the organization, of a new Militia in that part of the Urtited Kingdom, and on principles entirely new ; and'also, that as coon as the present Bill shall have passed, it was intended to propose a new Bill for granting certain allowances to the Subaltern Offi cers of:the S,cotch•Militia, • A variety of Amendments were proposed, chiefly by Lord . HOBART, and adopted by the Committee ; and many of the Clauses were severally animad verted on, and opposed principally by the Earl of CARNARVON, ar;d by the Earls FITZWILLIAM and )3ERKELEY. The Duke of MONTROSE warmly defended many of leading provisions of the Bill against the arguments of the opposing Peers. His Grace, how ever, took occasion to express his opinion, that the period limited for the purpose of drilling and exercising the men, was by ito means sufficient for the purpose : it was pot then his intention to pro pose any amendment, but in a future Session he hoped Ministers would• see' the necessity of .ex_ lending the period in question. 'The Earl of . C ARN ARVON having- observed, that the charges . of the Militia in this Coontiv, as . well as the maintenance of the Parochial Poor, fell in g!meral upon the, Land Occupiers, whereas Personal Proprietors, Monied Men, and Placernen and Pen sioners, were comparatively exempted, The LORD Cil A NCELLOR stated, that.personal property was by law, as liable to be ra:ed to those charges, as landed or any other species of property the causes of its not being actually rated in the sarne proportion, was sowing to its peculipr nature, to the inipraaieability of getting it so well—to its intangibility,"and to other obvious causes. And with respcd to what the Noble Earl had more.than once said respe4ing Placemen and • Pensioners increasing these 'rates a - id charges, he could inform hint, and from his own personal experience, that as a Placeholder, to which situation, however, some onerous diities were annexed ; he paid to the Land Tax not less than four shillings in the pound— wherf as as a land-owner, for 'alit of land which ;le posses., d in the North of England, the rates . ‘vtie.so- Lid, that he got off for ahout 71d. in the Fou:r3. _ _ Uo the remaining clauses of the Bill, discussion more or less tOO% p!ace, particularly on that clause elated to (he trial and punishment of such Soldiers as should not use " due dil;gence" in coming to the appointed place of rendezvous. The. provisions were warmly combated by the Earif, of CAR NARV ON and FlTzwit,t.rs, and defended with very great ability by the LoitD CHANCELLOR, whO wa f,ilowed by Lord HOBART. The Bill being- t.ntirely gone through, the House ret.umed, and ordered the Report to be received to- 111OrTOW. The rcrr.t.ining B:Ils before the House were then forw:irded iu their respective st;:ges,---these y,•ere mostly' Cornrnitmenzs. The Order for summoning doe House relative to the Earl of SUFtcwc's Motion rcspeding the con_ duff, of His I.Vlajesty's late Ministers, was, as we z7ou d colle;:i, discharged, and no future day spt.ci fled for the purpoe. The Bilis hiought up from the Commons in the early part of !b•_ esening were severally read a first time. Some private business was then disposed of, and at nine o'clock the House adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE COMMONS, TUrSDAY, JUNE 15. e Marquis of Downshire's Estate Bill was read . a second, time, anti ordered to be committed ;5)- morrow. The Vie . st India Dock Bill was read a third time and passed. _ _ _ The Fren;:h Postage Lill . was read a third time and pa s sed. Certain Accounts, relative to the Emoluments of Pubiic-Oflicts, were brought up, ordered to lie on the Table, and a certain i,umber of Copies of them ordered to be printed fOr the use of the Members. The Report of the Committee on the Marine Mutiny all was brought 141, and the Bill was or dered to he r c ad a third timetc—inorrow. "an Repirt the Leg;icv %unit) Duty Bill was brought up, anti tiv 1 brckred to he read a tlitrd time to-morrow. Report ()idle Clergy Relief Bill was brought u n and. tlle u;dered to bz.' read a third time to •; niorrxx. The Report of the Trish Tea and Coff:.:e Bill was brought up, anti the Bill ordered to be read a third time to.ir.orrow. On the Report of Committee of the whole House, leave was given to in a Bill to Bette[ the con slition of the Scotch Schoolmasters. A Message from the Lords announced their Lordships' Assent to the Irish Yeomanry Bill, the Woolwich Ordnance Bill, and several private Bills. The Smuggling Bill was ordered to be read a third time tO-inorrow. !'be Report of the Irish Controverted EleEfion Bill was tai - ert into father consideration, the 4mendments agreed to, and the Bill ordered to ,b,e read a third tiinc to-morroir. . . . . The Report of the Selea Committee on the ,Amendments made by the Lords on the English Militia Bill was brought up by the Sic RETARy • at WAR, who stated that one of the Amendments was rejeted by the Committee, on the ground of its unnecessarily inflitling severer peualtics on disbaud ed Militia-men for desertion. The House having rejeded such of the Amend. ments as had been rejetied by the Cwiimittee, The SECRETARY at WAR moved That a Com mittee be appointed to confer - with the• Lords on the rejedion of these Amendments ;—which was agreed' to, and the Seleo Committee appointed as the Committee of Conference. . The Report of the Mutiny Bill was brought up, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to morrow. The Report of the 'Miners' Militia Bill was brought up, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time co-morrow. The innkeepers' Allowance Bill went through Committee, and the I&eport was ordered to be re. eeived to-morrow. The Report of the Land 'Lax Redemption Bill was brought up, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. WESTERN rose to state certain oppres_ sions which had taken place in colleaing the Malt Tax under the late Aft, the Excise Officers having assumed a power to levy:that Tax on persons who did not fall under the provisions of the Ad. This, .abuse arose from the vague use in the ACt of the word f‘Malt-maker,'' which was construed by the Revenue Officers to apply to all who caused Malt to be made for their own use, farmers, private Gen tlemen, &c. as well as those who aaually made the Malt and prepaied it for sale.'• The terms Maltster and Malt-maker had formerly been applied only to those who kept public malting houses ; but under this Aft, it had been construed to apply also to those who sent their Malt to be made at the-se public malting houses. He stated, that in many parts it was as common for Gentlemen to send their barley. to the malt house to be made into malt, as to send their corn to the mill to be ground. He himself, among others had been•in the praaice of doing so, and the Excise Officers had, in consequence requir ed him to pay the duty imposed on Molesters by the late AEI. This demand he had resisted, and a l )_ plied to the COmmissioners of Excise for redress. No answer, however, had been returned to. his re presentations, though he had repeated them again ; but he had learnt from another quarter, that orders had been given to proceed against. him. Mr. VANS 177',4R7' said, that it was impossible by the rules of. the House to amend the Aa this Session ; but any. vexation to which it gave. rise, might be regularly obviated next Session. He was /Sorry for the inconveniences stated to have arisen from it : he .was sure, however, that these could not have arisen from a true construaion of the Aa, had not been intended to extend the Excise Laws to any persons not afFeaed by them ui.der former Mts. The great latitude of provision, which it was found necessary to make to prevent secreting from the operation of a new tax of mag.,. nitude, could not indeed but give rise to some un foreseen inconveniences which should be obviated as soon as possible. Redress, however, could cer tainly be obtained at present by applying to the Counnissioners of the Excise, or, failing them, to the Board of Treasury or Excise. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE said, that, better care should be taken to prevent the molestation of the subje&s. Mr. V ANS ITT ART replied, that orders had been given to all Officers employed under the Piet to execute their duty with the utmost lenity, and to give every fair assistance to those who might be unjustly assessed. Mr. WESTERN' said, be did not know what orders had been given, but he had certainly applied to the Commissioners, and had received no answer, only he had learnt that the Supervisor sad . received orders to proceed against him. The CHANCELLUR of the EXCHEQUER said, tha't the lion. Gentleman might depend on an inquiry being instituted into the grievance corn plaiped of. it was found necessary to annex many Clauses to Excise Laws, which it was never in tended to put in execution, except in cases of frau dulent concealment being susle4ed: If any griev ances from these had arisen, they should be re dressed. Lord GLZ NB ERV TE brought up a Message from His Majesty, presenting to the House a Paper, containing- the Proceedings of the Loafs . Commis sioners for the Redemption of the Land Tax. The Excise Hydrometer Bill, Lord Hutchinson's Annuity Rill, the Southern Whale Fishery Bill, the Paper busy Drawback Bill, the Blubber Oil, &c. Bill, were read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. The Irish Lottery. Office Bill palsed through a Committee of the whole House, and the Report or_ tiered to be received to-morrow. The Resolutions of the Committee of Supply were brought up and agreed to. Mr. WICXHAM, by His Majesty's Command, presented to the House a Copy of the Orders which had been issued from the Adjutant General of Ire land's Office; on the 19th of May last, respeaing the discharge of those serving in the Militia : also an Extra6l of the General Orders issued to the Mili tia, from the War-Office, on the sth 'Of May ; 'and also a Return of the whole Militia of freland, on the sth of November last, distinguishing those ‘1";16 Were bound to serve for four years, and those only bound to serve till three months after the conclusion of Peace. From this last Paper it appeared, that ere, whole Militia of Ireland consisted of z 3,000 Men; those engaged to serve during the •continu a.nce of the War, amounting to . 16,293; and thoSe engaged to serve far four years, 'amounting to 6,807. Ordered to be referred to the comm4tee on the Irish Militia Bill ? ,into which the House then re, solved itself. • _ _ Mr. W1eK11.4411 said he had waited an hour and a half expe4ing the appearance of a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. FOSTER) who had given no tice of his intention to make some observations on the papers now presented. But as it did not ap pear that .be was to attend this night, he found himself obliged to make his intended motions in that ,Gentleman's absence. He .then moved, ," That the Chairman of the Committee be instruOed to move the House for leave to bring -in a Bill to authorise and render valid the discharge of the ish Militia," which was agreed to ; and the Re port having been received immediately, leave was given to bring in the aforesaid Bill. . Mr. WICKHAM then moved, '," That the House do to-morrow resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider of the best mode of indemnifying the Counties of Ireland for any ex pences incurred by the discharge of the Militia. men, about the period of whose se;vicesanydoubts hacl been entertained."—Ordered, The Report of the Committee of. Way; and Means was rec_eiyed, the Resolutions agreed to, and Bills ordered to lie brought in upim there. The Report of the pill for the Sale of .the Irish Parliament House was brought up, and the Bill or. tiered to be read a third time to.mor.row. The Irish Chancellor's Salary gill went through a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be received tO.TIIOIIOW. The Irish Uncertificated Ban k rupt Bill was read a second time, and ordered to, be committed on Friday. The Irish 6 per Cent. Duty Bill went through a Committee, and the Report ordered to be received to-morrow. The Deer Stealing Dill was read a second time, and ordered to he committed to-morrow, The Bill for raising i,g00,0001. by Exchequer Sills, was read a second time and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Post. Horse Duty Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed tomorrow. The Isle of Man Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The National Debt Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Foreign Qffence Trial Bill was read a third time and passed. ____ • _ _ The Little-Goes Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed to-morrow, The Excise Duty Bill passed through Commit tee of the whole House, and the Report w4s ordered to be received to-morrow, The Tortola Free Port Bill passed through a Committee of the whole House, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The third reading of the Eleftion Ballot Bill was oppOsed by Mr. ELIOT as an unnecessary innovation and encroachment on the Grenville Act, and as tending to create delay instead of producing dispatch, by rendering it more difficult to find enough of Mem.: bers 'to form the Cominittees. Mr. BRAGGE said, .that in\the absence of. the Mover-he would undertake to defend the Bill. As :oats being an innovation on the ,Grenville Aft,. though that Bill allowed more than one Committee in one day, yet this had never been acted upon, as it 'night have interrupted the public business ; and this being the case, he conceived the present Bill could not be considered as an innovation on 'the principle of the Grenville Aft; it only prevented the risk of an improper suspension of public busi ness. Mr. RAIVKES said, he was not at all concerned about the success of this Bill, as it appeared to him „1 that nugatory kind which do neither good nor harm ; but if the question was pot, he should vote against it, as altogether unnecessary. Mr. IIItAGGE explained. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. The House then adjourned at seven o'clock till to-morrow. AR RIVER. French 1 - - - Hamburg!) I - - - - PRICE OF STOCKS. Tuts DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols. .7 - 74 a 75 I Out. Disc. at Disc. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERL FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, JUNE 16, 18oz. THIS morning we received Paris Papers of the 13th inst. The Moniteur contains the details of the important event which we yesterday commu nicated, viz. the surrender of ToussAINT, which • • it appears was made to General LECLERC, without any other condition than the promise of pardon. The Qeneral, after accepting his submission, or dered him to repair to a Plantation near Gonaives, and not to depart from thence without permis sion from himself. The immediate cause of the submission of TOUSSAINT appears to have been the desertion of CFI/LISTON-IE, who, after ome negociation, had joined General LECLERC, and delivered up the troops under his command. With respect to the Black Soldiers, General LE CLERC intimates an intention of incorporating such of them as he shall think ought to be continued in Arms, with the Colonial Troops. The General notices the discontent of the Americans at the measures taken by him en hi's arrival in t.. 4 Island, respeeting their Vessels; but contends- tha t they are wrong; and accuses in turn, the Amer'" can Agents of inspiring TOUSSAINT with not ele best digposition towards France. r i ll the ey.ertinns of the General will now, it appears, be directed to the re-establishment of the Commerce of the Isla e' and the restoration of it to its former situation. It doesnotappeaffrom the dispatches, that any Stru c k gle ensued - on the part of the Insurgents, in conse quence of the defeaion of their Leaders. The 'Minister .Of the Marine gives notice, Mat the Light-House at Ostend is re-established. The Itlpniteur of the lath inst.. contains a Pe' cree appointing a Commission for the Payment of the National Debt, and gives a List of above 4q Vessels laden with grain, w.hich have arrived ° ditTerent Ports of the republic from England, A l ' tona, Amsterdam, Dant7ic, Brest, and Hamb.urgli• It is with such pleasure we find from an article dated Stockholm, May 2;St, that the Treaty 6f Conimerce of i66t will he revised, correeted, an d adapted to present circumstnceS, and those ar ticles which have given .cause to disputes Will be settled with the greatest precision. Our Merchants wiII be happy to hear, that t lif Batayian Government has proposed to the I.,egis l ' tive Body to abolish, with a very few exception" the Laws whiCh have been enacted against the portation of English Merchandize. The Five per Cents. on the rzth, were at j;. 7c° Tins morning a Ilamburgh Mail arrived. article from-Brussels statesoltat a great number Merchants have petitioned the French GovernirseP t ' to prohibit the Town of Antwerp from trading direly to. the East and West Jndian Colonies , 26 a permi . ssion to do so would end in the entire de' , strulion cf their own trade. A Deputation leas' been dispatched from Antwerp to Paris, to ra.linta in the interests of that Town against these re preserita rions. Several Bankers and Merchants of Brussel s ' who intended to have established houses at Antwerrt have deferred doing so till the freedom of the tra de of that Town shall have been definitively confirmed' .Accounts from Constgntinopie, of the rot h May, stale, — that the plague has again broken O 1 in Evpt, with the most clestruElive violence. Thc English Troops, it was supposed, would on this accoOnt immediate!y be obliged io sail from Alex andria arid Rosetta. At Constantinople and SulYfr na, the plague was also again appearing with ag gravated violenCe. New disturbances have brobr out in Romflia, • From Vienna we learn, that on the 29th of M a l the qtrEEN of NAPLES had appeared abroad in public for the first time since her illness. The First Consul had sent orders to /Van, tO repair without delay the residence of the Aacti. DUKE Cl-IAIUES in th.,t City. This had give r ' rise to various conjectures at Vienna. At 1 lamburgh, the F ate in honour of the Peace % celebrated on the fourth of June. The pleascrei of the day were greatly enhanced by the recolleeli ol that it was the birth-day of our Sovgitt G N o.ll° is equally beloved both at home and abroad. T l ' 6 Fete was in every respeft splendid, but the descrip tion is too long to be inserted. The Proclamation for the Dissolution of Parlis' ment is expedcti to be in the Gazette of the 1 9 t ' instant, The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND has just been appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County of North' timberland, the Lieutenantcy of which has been 1(" r several years in Commission ; and His Grace 5434 yesterday sworn into office at Northumberlan d ' house, in presence of the LORD CHANcELLo g ' Duke of PoitTLAND, and several other Privy Coat' cillors. The First Regiment of Life Guards had a gra n ' field day yesterday in Hyde-park, when they ac quitted themselves highly to the satisfaction of theirf Commanding Officer, and a numerous assemblage ° spedators. The Coldstream Guards had a grand field d 4 i; this morning in Hyde-park, before His ItoY a Highness the DUKE of YORK. The account of the arrival of the Lady Nebo , Portsmouth, is not true. Lieutenant GRANT, wilf commanded that vessel, is come home, but the Lag/ Nelson remains at New South Wales. Governor :KING was ill of the gout, when the last accounts came away from New South WitiCS. Mr. RANDALL JACKSON, Mr. BosANQuET, Mr' F. INIPEY,' Mr. DALLAS, Mr. Serjeant Hvaro° l3 ' Mr. Serjeant BANNISTER, arid Mr. M AcK iNros" ; are said to be Candidates to succeed Mr. Ro us, as Counsel to the East India Company. The increase of the half_pay of the Navy is, A L e understand, in the following proportions. .r mirals, an addition of tog. a day, makiog the' half-pay 31. per day. Vice-Amirals, 55. a _, a3 ‘ ,Y: making their half_pay amount to zl. los. pe r t' 7 ; and Rear-Admirals, an addition of Ss. maki n g 11. zs. 6d. per day . The first fifty Post Captai°,l are to have Its. a day : the second fifty sos• the third Bs. The first fifty Commanders? Ss. an ,s the rest 7s. The first moo Lieutenants 5 5 . .7 .. upwards -: the second too°, .s. 6d. and the reo 3l er der 4 5. There is likewise an addition of 1 05 ' month to the pay of warrant Officers. Colonel M‘Maatost comes in for Aldbo rougil ' under the auspices of the Duke of Noarst7mog