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4 II .NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, JULY 18.—The Neptune, of 9 • guns, Capt. DRuftY, is come into Harbour to be , ppered. • . - - Arrived the Prussian Ship Edus, Capt. CERw from Memel, with timber. , Arrived the Patriot, Capt. STRAWNECK, from Antigua for London, put in to wait Convoy. Poatmautount, JULY 19.—Arrived the 1 7 ;floire (French Ship) from New ,Orleans for Bourdeaux, taken by the Apollo Frigate. DEAL, JULY i9.—Sailed the Hon. East India Company's Ship Neptune for the River, and the Ranger Sloop, and Snipe Gun-brig, on a Cruize. • Arrived the Discovery Bomb, from the Note, and sailed with the Confiiii Gun-brig for the Coast •; of France. • THE INCOME BILL. WE were glad to perceive that Mr. ADDINGTON Upon reflection adopted, hOwever ungraciously, the suggestiorii of Mri'PlCT'in the most essential. point (if the IncoMe DUtf Bill, "and thtt - small:Poirietors of . La isd,(ripy of whom gain a livelihood by farming it themselves), and Persons possessing small Incomes . Funds,. iperhaps the only means of their sub. sistence), are now to be entitled, according to the :alterations proposed by Mr. PITT, to the sauce Abatements in the Duty, as persons whose Incomes arise from other sources. Justice evidently required that the first description of persons should not be snore heavily burthened than Tenants of Land 'with the same Income. But Justice, Policy, and Good Faith demanded that the Stock.kolder should, in taxing the Interest of that Property which he has lent to the Nation, be at least as much favoured, in resped of that,Property, as any other Person. There will be found its every Loan Bill a Clause, which we have before noticed, and which enacts that the Dividends payable to the National Credi. tor, shall not be subject to any TaX or DeduCtion whatever. Nov it has been held, aid we think very fairly, that this Clause did not apply to a General Tax which included equal?, in its operation this together with every other species of Property: Eut if the Income arising from the Sands is taxed, anstany other species of Income favoured-4hise is, either not taxed at all, or taxed .at- a lower rate, then it evidently becomes a violation of the Clause of which we have spoken, and a breach of that Faith to the National Creditor Wfiich Parliament has pledged.—Now as the present Bill was brought into Parliament by Mr. Aims NCTON, persons hay. ing 601. per Annum in the Funds, and nothing more, would have paid a Tax of 31. per ann. to the State— whereas persons deriving 601. per ann. from Trade nvotild have paid nothing—and persons having In. comes derived from Trade from 601. to isol. would have paid in a mitigated rate of Duty, whereas Stock-holiers would, upon the same Income, have paid the whole Duty. What is this but favouring the incomes arising out of Trade at the expellee of the Stock-holder ; or, in other words, violating that general principle, and that particular Clause in every Loan Ad to which we have referred ? Yet Mr. ADDINGTON chuses to persist that the Measure was just—that it was equal—that it was no breach of National Faith. Since he does not persist in the measure itself, it would be hard to deny him the satisfaction of persisting us pertitia. ciously as he pleases in the propriety of the grounds on which he brought it forward. At the•same time we think he ought in fairness and in charity to his so Friends who had so stoutly 'supported the mei. sure when he first proposed it, to have afforded them .some littloground to justify so sudden. a change of opinion,--isn a question of so much importance. An account of the Annual Receipts and Disburse ments at the Island of Ceylon, during the time it has been in the possession of Great Britain, to the latest period to which the same can be made up. Receipt,. Di sbler.tement. Nov. t 795 to April 1746 - Pa. 6, 0.33 2 • .r.,. 7,07;616 May 170 - :797 , 7,q2,613 - 6,92,245 1797 - 1 793 . 6,06,62 z . .1,767.7 1 79 8 - 77 , 11 - 7,1 8 ,;P? .: 3, ,6 3,043 li'A - l'=- 0 - 9, 8 3,93 8 - 71,26,896 It',o - :.:' Jr -7,30,00 n ,- 7,50,00ci May ilior to Dec. i`e.ot - 5,45,687 - , 6,21,67 P Nlem.---Separate books of account from Ceylon have not been received for the three first and sixth years : the Receipts and Disbursements for those periods are therefore calculated from the accounts of Bengal,.Madras, and Bombay ; but they are not to be considered as accurate. The Receipts include the Revenues of the blind, and the Remittances from the Governments in In dia, or Disbursements made there on account of Ceylon. The Disbursements contain the general charges of the Island ; but it is apprehended that only the extra allowances to the Troops are inserted, and that the regular pay is included in the accounts of Madras, &c. This cannot however be ascer-• tamed, the particulars of the Disbursements not being sent home. Every County in the Kingdom has now adopted he Plan of Defence proposed by Government. Yesterday the Principals of the Bakers' Company waited on the LORD MAYOR at the Mansion House tesp'etrring the Assize of Bread, when his Lordship, after intpeding the Mealweighers' Reports, ordered that no . alteration 511001(1 be made, but continue at Nine4ence three.farthings the Quartrrn Loaf Wheaten, and Eight.pence halfpenny the Home. hold. According to the last letters from Corfu, the ENtr Rox of MOROCCO has declared War against Austria. Yesterday, at Brentwood Fair, in Essex, there Was hur a thin show of cattle, and those principally of the South Wales kind, which went of at high prices ; the horse fair was well stocked, particularly with the teal; kind, which sold frccly. PAP 73, JULY It. Tiu iteaStlfe adopted by the. Erttitsn ment, of blockading the mouths, of the4lbe and the Weser, is a new infra lion of the Rights of Neu: trals, and of the SoVereignty of all Powers. France, attacked by England, acquired the right of carrying the War into all the British Possessions, and of seizing, _as it had done in former W ars, Hanover, which made a part of those:Possessions. 'But she did not occupy the Banks of 'the Elbe,- which were in the Country put into heriposseasioo by conquest she respeded the Neutrality of ; Bre men, Hamburgh, and' the other States of the 'icas tinent. What circumstance, then, could authorize the KING of ENGLAND to prohibit to Neutral Powers the Navigation of the Elbe and the Weser ? If the English Ilag cannot appear on all the points that a French Battery can reach, it at least ought not to binder Neutral Vessels from navigating wherever the chances of War have conducted the French Arms, and maintaining their communication amongst themselves. The Elbe and the Weser wash a great extent of neutral territory ; the Rivers which fall into it increase still further the commercial rela tions of which they form the receptacle. To close the entrance of these Rivers, is to intercept the communication of a great part of the Continent : it is to commit an act of hostility against all the Countries to whom this Navigation. belongs. Erstaad should have declared more frankly, that she would not suffer any Power to be neutral : but Will the Neutrali suffer in their turn their Flag and their Rights to be treated with contempt ? If Eugland wished to punish Germany for not having protected and defended Hanover, it is doubt. less as a Prince of the Empire that she must con. ceive herself entitled to that proteEtion. But how dare She claini a Guarantee from the Members of the Empire, at the moment when she violates the rights of one of them ? The KING of ENGLAND, in his quality of a Member - of the Germanic Body, had consented to the arrangements, and had stipulated for Indemnities in favour of the Order of Malta, also considered as a Prince of the Empire. Scarcely had His BRITANNIC MAJESTY solemnly signed these dispositions, than he attacked the independence of the territory of the Order. He can have no right to form for himself reclamations which wrist mote justly made against himself. l As to any thing further, the measute. : of shut. ting up . the entrance of the principal rivers. of Ger many,. as like all those adopted by England for several months Past: an aft of blindness which will recoil upon herself. She breaks the ties of her Commerce with Germany, and shuts up the principal ways for the introduction of her mer. chandize upon the : Continent. She accustoms people to deny themselVes the proddis of her industry : she obliges them, in order to obtain equivalent articles, to address themselves to France, to whom, when the mouth of the Film is shut, all the land roads remain open. Anger and passion are very bad Councillors. The English Journalists announce, as a feat of arms of which they boast, the taking of French Fishing Boats ; and England ads in this case aho against herself. In taking away the property of the unfortunate Inhabitants of the Coasts, and de priving families of their support, she reduces to de. spair that population whose resources she has de stroyed; she excites them to come forward with greater ardour in the defence of our Territory, anti to avenge their Country. She lights Los the senti. ment of hatred in the hearts of meal, whom, by the obscurity and tranquillity of their lives, seemed to be the least accessible to it. .A bad action always produces disastrous conse. quences : that which is unjust is never profitable. What would he the situation of Europe, it there was no Power disposed to restrain the ambition of a State which pays no regard to treaties or to jus. tice ? The English Minister follows that line of cond4t to which his chars ter (which is well knows to all Europe) leads him. Weak men never obey 'reason ; abandoned to their passions, theY aiValways . in extremes. Moderate conduct proves a sound judgment : injustice and violence proceed from real weakness. How can the light of reason shine amidst the sion of delirium I Are not the People of England every day told that France is a , prey to all kinds of disorder ; that the Government is without force, and the people without energy ? but perhaps Ihe British Ministers do - not speak mare againit their conscience than a man in a delirium dots, when he chews the people who surround him the phantoms which his imagination has created. Woe to that People who are governed by Men who are weak, and without plan. Woe alto to Europe, if those men are to dispose of that which remains of the power and prosperity of a great People. ITANovrit, JuLY 4.—The Administrator Gene. ral of the Forests, Citizen CHAVVIT, arrived here on the zsth of last month, with several other Frenchmen ; his mission has, it is said, for its oh. jea, to choose the oaks and other trees fir for ship. building, and to cause them to be conveyed to France. Several French Administrators fur the mines are also on their road hither. MIDDLEBURG, JULY 7. ---Yesterday evening the French Ambassador SEMONVILLE, and the Com mander in Chief, General V tcrost; arrived here ; and this morning about too Horse Grenadiers and snnie Mamelukcs, pat t of the Consular Guard, ar. rived. CORN EXCHANGE, JULY £O. 'WE have not much supply to-day : What samples mostly from Kent and Essex, scarcely reach lair quo. ration ; Barley, Pease, and Beans, are heavy of sale ; Malt is lower ; there is a demand for Oats, and although many cargoes from the Counties of York and Lincoln, they are readily taken off at an ad. vance of full as. per quarter; Flour plentiful. Wheat 475 a sss islis od Tick Beans -26 s a jas 40 Elm ditto . 51s a 6ts od Oats - - 2 , i A 23s a ass Rye ~ - 323 a 342 ad Poland ditto - 26 s a 27i od !Juicy . 305 a 2.ss od [Rape Sectl - - 361 4 401 MAit - -5.1 i a 6,:i ot Film: Vlour - .}is a sc., od White Pea2e. 42' ;.1 13: 011 I ReC 1 .01 1 (1 4 • * 4 1 i -.: 4ss bvitlea .. jl4 4 2,5%i ad j ARSTRACT OF A RILL LA' AMEN: ED ItY THE CO!..t-liTTT.E], . TO ith 7, end anc! render tiorC. Aet,•vbr.c.o in the preient .Sesion of Parliament, intauled, "A ;0 era " lil t;l!aferty ',ore dis'4'7uaily I,p - li:lde fir the I.),pm-e " i5?1 4 . 1 Seekrity of the Reain di(ring tht Vesent , /i n . " in emnrj in.o I'ers4ms wbo sfiter in steir Property by " axe/ ,Weasures as may be necessarj , for that l'prfo.,-e ;" and to enabfe his Majesty more elfe.ttuallv and Ocedily to ex ercise ancient and undoubted. Prerogative in requiring the Militar v Serviceof his liege ttlije,fts tJt Inr a gion of the Realtit. LI EUTENANTS' and DeputieS ppOirited tinder 42 Gco. 111. Cap; 90, and 42 Geo. 111. Cap. 91, empowered to aft in the ext cution'of this Provisions relating, to.Countiel„ See,' to extend to Ridingi, 8:c.; those to Hundreds. &c, to extend to other Divisions, and those to Parishes to extend to Townships, &c. A General Meeting of the Lieutenancy shall be held in each County and SteWartry within ten days after the passing of this Ad, pi as' tion after as niay be, and at such General Meeting the Lieutenant and Deputy Lieutenants, or such of them as shall he present at such Meeting, ihall issue out their orders to the Chief Constables; and where there is no Chief Constable, to some other Officer of .‘ the several Hundreds and Distrids within their res'pec tive Counties and Stewartries, regtiitlng every such Chief Constable or other Officer as aforesaid, to isitie an order under his hand to all Constables, Ty thing. men, Headboroughs, or other Officers in England, or to the Schoolmasters or other Officers in Scotland, of every Parish within their respective HUndreds and Distritls, to return to the Deptity Lieutenants within their respective Subdivisions, at the 'places and on the days to be named and appointed in such order, fair and true Lists iniwriting, in the mintier by this Ad direaed, of the names of all the men usually and at that time dwelling within such re. spedive Parishes, between the ages of 17 and gs years, and shall appoint the first Subdivision Meet. ing to be held under this At, for the carrying the sante into execution. Meetings of the like nature to be held every year, in the month of Odober. _ Constables, &c. to give notice in the Corm in the annexed Schedule (A.) to Housekeepers, &c. to pro. duce Lists containing a list and account in writing to the best of his or her belief, of the Chrislian.iind Surname, and also of the age of each and everyman resident in stiChO.efling house,, or distind story or apartment, bet s.e. ages of 17 55 years, distinguishing in such list or account whether every such man is Married Or unmarried, and 'whether bte . hain any child or children living under the age of ten years, and also distinguishing therein such other: , particulars as are reriuired by . the - Aft, according to the firm in the Schedule annexed ; and shall deliver the same, or cause the same to be delivered, to such . Constable, Schoolmaster, or other Officer or Person as aforesaid, under the penalty of 101.-201. penalty for a false town, • _. • Occupiers bei►►g Quakers .to produce Certificates. acknowledging them to be of that persuasion, and in such cases the Constables, &c. shall crake Returns of persons liable to serve its such houses as where Retttrns are not made ,to Notices, Constables to make our yearly Lists of the. names of men between the age of 17 and ss, distinguish ing their rank and occupations, and, dividing them in four classes, (that is to say) in the First Class, they shall put all the men of :he age of J 7 and under the age of 30 years, unmarried, and having no child or children hying under the age of to yeais ; and in the Second. Chlis, all the men of the age of 30 and under •the age so years, unmarried, and having no child or children living under the age of so years ; and in the Third Class, all the men of the a.ge of so and under the age of 3o years, who arear have been married, and who have not more than two children living under the age of 10 years; and in the Fourth Class, all the men not included in any of the former Classes; and also dis. tingnishing in such Lists, which of the persons so returned labour under any infirmity, likely to in. capacitate them from . Military Service, and which of Them are Clergymen, or licensed Teachers of 4eparate Congregations in Holy Orders or. pretended Holy Orders, Quakers, or Medical Praditioners, being householders, or persons serving .as Officers or otherwise in the Army, Marines, Militia, Sea Fencibles, or Volunteers, or persons adnally sere. ing by Substitute in the Militia or in the Army, raised or to be raised by virtue of either of the Ads passed in the present Session of -Parliament, and Ala - a copy on the door of the Church or Chapel, with notice of the meeting for hearing appeals. No person labouring under any infirmity, render. ing him incapable of Military Service, nor any Clergyman, nor any licensed Teacher of any sena. tate Congregation in Holy Orders, or pretended Holy Orders, and not carrying on any other trade or exercising any other occupation for his liveli. hood, except that of a Schoolmaster, and who shall have been so licensed on or before the Bth day of March, nor any person being one of the people cal. led Quakers, nor any Medical man actually pradi. sing as such, anti being a Housekeeper, not any person actually serving as an Officer, Non-commis. sinned Officer, Drummer, or Private Soldier, in His Majesty's Army, or in the Marines, or the Militia, or enrolled and serving in any Corps of Sea Fenci. bles or Volunteers, whose services shall have been Or shall be accepted by. His Majesty, nor any per. son adtually,servinz by Substitute in the Militia, or in the said Army raised or to be raised under the said last.mentioned Ads of the present Session of Parliament, nor any Constable or other Peace-Officer, shall be liable to Military Service; under this Ad, so lung only as they shall respectively continue within any of the Dacriptions aforesaid. Ministers, Cluirelawattlens, &c. to be aiding and assisting -the Constables;v4c. in making out the list, and classing the men. Persons aggrieved may appeal to the Subdivision Meetings, and the detertnination thereat to be final. Constables, Set:. to attend, and verify lists on oath. Penalty of gol. for inducing Constables, cc, to make false returns. Deputy Lieutenants may issue orders for the at tenddrics of Constables, and if any shall negleft to appear, or any Chief Constable, &c, to return lists, cr shall be guilty of fraud, partiality, .or neglctt, he shall tic v waunittcd to gaol, ox may be fined* TtirO justices t - n4y api';Otat ITTUtiei to Onakerc for carrying this Aa into execution. TWO dr More places and liSts ftir theM may be. added ibgether, and ilie Constables, &c. shall e..t togCther as if they were tile ottcers of the same parish, find Shall meet in the parish first nanied in the order of the Deptity Lietitenants. Deputy Lieutenants to hear and deterniirie agreements between parishes. Penalties On Constables; Ministers; &c for dis obedience of orders; and for not atten;;ng Stint:mini of Deputy Lieutenants,. nnt less than el. nor ee; ceeding roof. and in &fault of payment three months imprisontnent. Clerks of Subdivision Meetings tti transmit CO. pies of kolls to the Clerk of General Meeting 4; un der penalty of i6l. Clerks of General Meetings to transmit übsttafts of the teturni to the Secretary cif State, under nalty of rocit, His Majesty May chit giy parishes may be proVided with atihs: Expence of keeping aim's, &c. to be borne by tht parish, Majesty May order First Class to be ester.: cised, and Deputy Lieutenants to regulate the time and plaCe, two hours sin Sunday, and, if thought necessary; men to be train :n.l on whet days, betWeeti Lady Day and Michaelnias: The Lieutenant 0:: any CoUntyi sir three or more Deputy Lieutenants ;titling in his absence, to appoint fit and proper persons from arnungit the Men resident in any parish to be Officers, for the purpose of train. ing, disciplining and commanding such of the per, sons returned and enrrilled for Military Service under this Aka, as shall be compriied in the first class of persons so returned, not exceeding the pro; portion of one Captain, two Lieutenants, and one Ensign; for every one hundred and twenty men ; and it shall be lawful for the Captain of each Corn.- pany to appoint fit and proper persons resident in .any such. parish to be Non-commissioned bilkers, not exceeding the proportion of three Serjeants, three Corporals acid one Drummer for every One hundred and twenty Men. Deputy Lieutenants acting niay unite neighbour. lug parishes to form Comnanies. Deputy Lieutenants or Captains may rigiee With. any Serjeant, &c. to exercise anti tiaain the Men, Constables to: attend, unless prevented by. sick. ness certified. Penalty on neglect las. per day. Any person cOmprized 'in stick first dais as afore said, whose dwelling place of residence shall not he more than thfee miles from the place of exercise and, training, who shall refuse or negled to attend at thls time and place so appointed for the purpose of being exercised and trained as aforesaid, OnlesS prevented by, illness or other : Unavoidable accident, to be proved to the satisfaction of any Deputy Lieu. tenant; or of the'Qommanding Officer or Constable of the Parish or Parishes, every such person Shall Corfeit and pay the slim of Five Shillings for every such day on which he shall so neglel or refuse to attend as aforesaid provided always, that all per. sons being excused from the payMent of the Poors R at es, by r eason of poverty, or belonging to any family excused from the payinent of limns Ratea by reason of poverty, shall forfeit and pay the sum of One Shilling only far every suck non-attendance at such exercise and training as aforesaid, in lieu of the sum of Five Shillings us aforesaid Provided also, that if any person, not being preveroed by sickness or other unavoidable accident (to be proved as aforesaid) shall refuse or negled to attend at such times and places of exercise and training as Aare. said, for any three successive days appointed for that purptlse, every such person shall forfeit and pay tht sum of Forty Shillings in lieu of such Five Shillings, and of Five Shillings in lieu of such One Shilling as afoiesaid, for every subsequent nonattendance, until he shall again attend, to be levied by distress. Persons obtaining a Certificate front the Captain, allowed by two Deputy Lieutenants, of hia profs. ciency, excused from further attendance on the dais of exercise. Nlthken) to he marke t % and if any Men sell, pawn, or lose their arms, &c. or negled to return them in good or►ler, they shall forfekt not exerting; Forty. Shillings; or be committed fur riot exceeding one. month. • • Penaltv for buying such antis, Sr:, sol, and in default of payment three months imprisonment. ri all cases of adtial Invasion, or on the appear. once of the enemy in force Upon the Coil - at, it shall be lawful for Hit Majesty (the occasion being first comMunicated to Parham:or, if Parliament shall be then sitting, or &slated in Council and notified by Proclamation, if no Parliament shall h then sitting or in being) to order and dired the Lieutenants of Counties, or on the death or removal, or in the absence from their respeaive Counties of any of them, then any three or more Deputy Lieutenants, with all convenient speed, to draw our, assemble, and embody all the men enrolled for Military Servico tinder this Ad, within their respective Counties, whether they shall belong to the First, or any other Class (other than and except such as are herein. before exempted from 'military service under this Ati, for such time as they shall continue so exempt) or so many of them, or such part Of propOrtioll them or any of them as His Majesty shall in his wisdom judge necessary, and in such manner as shall be best adapted to the circumstances of tbo danger; tvid to cause such men, or any of them, to be placed in such of the existing regiments, bat. talions, or corps, as may from time to time be ap. pointed to serve in Great Britain, or formed into such new regiments, battalions, or corp, as • His Majesty shall judge necessary, and to put the said forces under the c o mm a nd o f such General or other officers as His Majesty shall be pleased .to appoint„ and to dired all or any of the said men so drawn out, assembled, or embodied as •aforesaid, to be led into arty part of Great Britain for the repelling and prevention of any such invasion, or for the sup. pression of any rebellion or insurreaion within Great Britain, arising or existing ar the time o f any such invasion ; and from the ti me of any men being so drawn out, assembled and embodied as aforesaid, until they shall be returned again to their own counties, and disembodied by His Majesty's commissioned officers, drum_ order, the officers, non. mers, and private men, so drawn out, assembled, and embodied, shalt be subjed to all the provi sim contained in any At of Parliament which shalt.