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IMPER.I4L PARLPIMENT HOUSE OF PEERS. TI-JWRSDAY, JUNE 30. COUNsitt, were finally heard relative to the Scotch Appeal; IVPLeari. t i. Bethune , and others, namely, Messrs. 4nitA4 and QR/1.141' or' the part of the Respondents, and Mr. AL,EXANPER for the APpellant in reply. • After which their Lordships adjourned the further consideration of the ease till to4nostow. The various Bills before the House were for. 'warted in their respdlive . stages. Some private bubiness was then , disposed of, and the House ad. journed rill tomorrow. MUSE OF COMMONS, • THURSDAY, JUNE 30. MR. TrERNEy took the Oaths and his Sear. The Report of the Committee upon the Scotch Inland Navigation was brought up and agreed to. The Scotch Militia Families Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. Rose moved for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Friendly Societies intended to be Vita. Wished under the pd of his present Majesty, to reetify Mistakes in the Registry of their Rules. Leave was given. Mr. Rose gaVe notice that he should to.morrow move for leave to bring in a Bill to compel Over. seers of the Poor in England to make Returns of the Number of Poor relieved, and of the Money ex. ,ended for that purpose. Af,EXANDER brought up the Report of the Committee yespeeting the Duty upon Saltpetre in Ireland. The Resolutions of the Committee were agreed _ _ _ Mr, CARRY moved that it be an Instruction to the CoMmittee on the Irish Duty Bill to make pro. visions according to the said Resolutions.-- , Agreed The Irish . Bank Note Bill and the Irish Militia Pak Bill were committed, and theßeports were or dered to be received to-morrow. The Committee on the Irish Revenue Regulation Bill -Was put off till Monday. Mr. CORRY gave drake, that to-morrow he should move for leave to bring in a Bill respecting the Duties upon Irish Distilleries. The Sr cit. ?TAR at WAR Moved for leave to bring in a fill fOr authorizing the billeting such Troops of Volunteer Cavalry as should assemble for the ptirpose of training ; to subject to Military Dis- Cipliti such Serjeants of those Corps who received iponstant pay, as well as all Trumpeters, Drummers, &c.. and - also to make eertaitt . RegulatiOns with re. gird to Win-acct. Corps. With regard to the first objeei 01 this Bill, it was precisely the same as the Bill passed last War. With regard to the second, it must be obvious that the Serjeants employed in these Corps, who received constant Pay, ought to Ice inhjea to Military Discipline ; and with respeCl to tlic third point, the observations which had been ma in that Home upon the •necessity of proposing some regulations respelling Volunteer Corps, ren. unnecessary for him to say any thing upon that p,ir.t of the subject at present. • Leave was given to bring in the Bill. Ti-o. Stic a lITAR N - at W4x moved the Order of the Pay for the third reading of the Army of ReserVe Bill. Mr. yoIINSTONE said,.no man-was more WiL ling to make the sacrifices necessary upon this occasion than he %las, but when he considered :the state' of this. Country, of Ft.ive, and of Europe, 'he had no dOubt but that the. present War would end in a Peace as insecure as that front which had departed, alter ,haviog exhausted the Force and the Spirit 'of the Couritry. The lion, Gen'le. man then entered at considerable length into an in. vestigatioo of the late Negotiation, ftonf which he inferred, that if this Country had consented to place "I‘lalta in the hands of Auasia, the present War might have been avoided,. ' He was of opinion, that upon two grounds it would have been more to the tutu:image of this Country that Malta should have been in the hoods of itussia, than that it should in neat own p ossession. f‘'i tit , on the ground of ex. pence and', Secondly, ti):it by approximating the possessions of Russia, n) li'run&, it would make her more sensible to the spirit of aggrandiAemerit which aanated the French Government. He confessed that he hail nut himself any great apprehension of an Inv:igloo, though he was avyare that upon this :len he differetl from many 'high authorities. But e , .r:idering the slate of Ireland, and, that we had iota th gad opinion of part of tie People of that Country, and had not conciliated others, it cer. taioly did tornd some ground for .apprehension, He then proceeded to eXamlne what means, we had of annoying France, and contended that unless we had the co-operation of the Powers of the Con. tinent, we could not, hope to ate} offensively against France, and he argued that from 'the 'present sitoa. thin of the Continental States, particularly Austria and Prussia, we had no vcastio.to look for support from them. As to any Linea attaeks upon France, he saw rto prospett of' making them With any success.--- The Skit ITARy at . WAtt. had said,. that 14' s ratied had vulnerable points, he Wished the Right Hon. (entleman would Tell hint which they were (a push . ). We might assume, perhapi, that because 13 ,, napinte was an objet of hatred and terror in this country, (here thero 'was a genera; to:) , of No, The lion. Gentleman then proceed. ed to, ()bathe Upon the capability of France and tngland to. maintain the War,:. he said that the Revenue of : France was Twenty,two Millions, was SUffidClit to enable her to carry on the War, beCaust: she incurred but little additional ex. pence by it ; indeed any Additional Force the did qaise tuaint;dried in Neutral States. With re. gard to England, he said, that so far from carrying on - the Wat for Twergy.two Millions a-year, it would cost 1 4 '011y-four' Millions, according to his calculation s r/iT here called the lion.' I ‘4 l :Mlier to Ptdee. The question before the House was, whe, diet this. WO a proper ,Force to establish fur. the Oefersyci oh rltc cototry, amid the Hon. Gentleman . wtk• itinitig upon the hart and future Policy o f t h e . (.411r.Yt T - SPEAICIR said , it was a wety clifticuit thing to foresee how any Gentleman would bring his arguments to bear upon the question, at the same time, she Hon. Gentleman had Certainly taken an extensive latitude in his mode of :ago ment, Mr, jOHNSTONE said, he would not pursue that line of argument any longer, but concluded with declaring his approbation Of the Bill. Mr. HUTCHINSON said, the Hon. Member had received - very incorrea information with regard to - the state of Ireland, In the hour of danger he was sure this Country would meet with cordial and' effective 'support • from Ireland. There might be bad characters in that, as there were in every Country. He would not enter into an examination of the Negotiation, but he saw enough to convince him of the earnest disposition of Ministers to main. tain Peace, and of the spirit of hostility and aggres sion by which the French Government was aduated. He highly approved of the Bill. Mr. ARCIUMLL commented upon the tendency of the arguments of some Gentlemen to make the People despond,,, He alluded ' to those Gentlemen who now composed the Opposition, who pressed their arguments so earnestly, and so uncomfortably well, that he was afraid some persons might attend to them. At a moment like the present, when every thing depended upon public spirit and anima. tion, he thought it wrong to urge any arguments calculateul sci depress their spirit.and ardour ; but those Gentlemen to whom he alluded seemrd in their eagerness to turn all their attention to the future, and camPletely to, overlook the present. But these kind of observations chewed how difficuk it was even for prudent men to discuss with pru. deuce a oueition of War in a popular' Assembly. He concluded with giving his entire approbation to the measure before the House, and said, he had gieat confidence 'in the Officers that would be ob tained from the Marines, of which Corps he enter tained the highest opinion. Lord Dr BLACQUIERE said, that some argu. ments which he had heard were highly improper at the present moment, because they were only cal. culated to daMp the ardour of the Country, and to give encouragement to the Enemy. He hadlistened with surprise to what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman who had opened this Debate, and was still more astonished to hear him conclude with giving his approbation to the Bill ; because, if he adett consistently with his own arguments, he • would propose a surrender of every thing that was valuable to us, to the Usurper of France. He did entertain the hope that now, when this Country was at liberty to avenge the wrongs' and insults it had sustained, that there would have been but. one sentiment in the Country. He hoped that every man would have been anxious to shew the First Consul that there was one Nation capable he would not say of coping single handed with him, but who had the will and the power of chastising him for his insolence and punishing him for his crimes.— When the Hon. Gentlerriamspoke of Bonaparte being an ohjett of terror in this Country, he wished the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pin) had then been in the House to have called him to order.—He trusted that such language would never for a moment be endured in that House. With regard to the present Bill, he confessed he did not at first approve of it, because it did not gofer enough, but since the altera-, ions which had taken place in the Committee, he en. • Pertained a very different opinion of it, a,r,l ire begged to return his thanks to the lt.t. iluo. Gentleman for his suggestions upon which those alterations were made. Still, however, he wished the Bill went iartherhe wished the Service of these New Le vies was extended to the King's Dominions in Eu. rope—Gibraltar and Malta might then be garrison ed by them, and the Garrisons of those places 'would become • a disposable Force. He also thought it would not be an unitnpartant objet to aft'ord some support, to the Hanoverians who had been attacked, plundered, and oppressed, though in a state of the most perfect neutrality. Allusions had been made to other resources which we had in store; he wished to know what they were. It might perhaps be considered as a very fine thing to surprise the Ene my with means of attack, of which he had no con. ception ; that might do very well in Chivalry; and if at a meeting of the Order of the Bath, such a pro. posal was made, it would no doubt be approved of; but that was not the kind of policy we ought now to adopt : the 'Enemy knew very well what we could not do—he was anxious to thew them what we could do. He Concluded with concur ring in opinion with an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. illTcl4 Ns9 as to the State of Ireland, patticti. ly the North. Gen. G .ISUOY NE, after making a few observa. tions upon what had fallen from Mr. JOHNSTONE Anil Mr. Ait cunALL, gave his decided approbation of the measure., which he had no doubt would be effeetual, and trusted that it would meet with th e same &metal approbation in the Country that it.hati, in that House. Colord CR 4U FOR D after apologizing for his inability to' address that House, declared that no. thing would give him more pleasure than that any Member should convince him that his opinions did not proceed from a desponding mind. He was then proceeding to state the grounds of his opinions, when the SECR6TARY at WAR said, that as the Hon. Gentleman was going into Military betails, he should beg to enforce the standing order for the ex. elusion of strangers. The Gallery was then cleared. The Bill, we understood, was afterwards read a third time find passed. The remaining Orders of the Day were then dis. posed of, in the course of which, (,►s we could col. left), the Scotch Additional Force Bill was report. ed, and ordered to be read a time tn.morrow. The Gallery-doors remainei shut until the Ad. jouruuwnt, which was at one o'clock. PRICE OP STOCKS, YZSTI DAY. Bank Stock N.try , per Cent. shut ; rer t cnt 4.79 , , 9t 9oi ris!t 5 per Cent. 4 c; eta. Con. 716 71 3 ~ e r Cent. Rest. sstia per Con. shut I Atm..i64 7.16 Ditto Shutt India Stock shut India bonds par s. dis. -tLiteti. s. s. dis. On...nuiturt 36 luiper jpct Lent. ILkuli for luly Ace. iur Ttilt DAY AT TwEt.vr. o'ct t:1. cOntols « 561 1 4 ,8;(1. Ann. -5; !).Giii;t:ra MArLS. AAA 11110. French 4 ...... ti . • Hamburgb r THE SUN. soLim Loss D;CIRIII 11•LIVIN •UPSAT I L D o yUL r 1803. Wu received this morning the Ahniteurs of the 26th and 27th, and the Bruirdi Paper of the 26th ult, The Mon;teurs are filled with Addresses to the First Consul, on the War, and with Extracts from the Mandates of Archbishops and Bishops, calling upon the Clergy of France to offer up their prayers to Heaven, for the ruin of that Country in which they were received with kindness, and supported with liberality, when they were driven like cri. minals from their Nativ-e Land. The Brunels Paprr contains a Note presented by the French Minister to the Landamman of Swit. zerland, stating the commencement of Hostilities between France and England. It enlarges upon the moderation and pacific disposition of the French Government, which the People of Switzerland may perhaps find some little difficulty in believing, after the experience which they have bad upon that subjed. The French Funds 0. So. A long discussion took place last night in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Bill for raising an additional Force for the befenre of the Country, but the Public are precluded from being made acquainted with the greater part.of it, as the Gallery was cleared at an early hour, and ie. mained shut for the remainder of the evening. The SECRETARY at WAR moved the Standing Order for the exclusion of strangers on Colonel CRAWFORD'S rising to address the House. E Bills for raising a Tax upon Property will we are . persuaded, be canvassed in Parliament with the same Public Spirit which has distinguished the Debates upon the Defence Bill, and- that one general sentiment will prevail—that of rendering this Mea sure as free from objedion, and.at the same time as prodative as possible 4 .The'attempt to render th:s Tax more equal, and the Amount of each Person's quota more secret than under the former Income Tax is laudable, but we fear will be fruitless. In propor tion as the desideratum of concealment is obtained, the means of evasion are afforded. h this to be con. tutored as a Tax upon Land, a Tax,upon the Funds, or a general Tax upon Income ? It is evidently a Tax upon Income, with an attempt to coiled that part of it arising from Landed and Personal Pro. perry, with more accuracy than under the former Income • At ; and being so, we cannot see the great advantage of calling it by any other name. Rat the Tax will 'not be rendered more equal by making the Land pay to the full amount, and the Funds to the full amount, while other Property escapes ;—besides, to obtain this full and accurate payment upon the Funds and upon Land, the machinery appears to us so com plicated that we cannot help doubting the possibility of its regular and efficient movements. With respell- to the Land, the amount at which it is charged to the Poor. Rate, where that Rate is just, is to be the criterion of its value ;-..where it is unjust, the value is to be ascertained by a survey. What will be the consequence ? An alteration of the Poor.ltate in half the Parishes in England, and endless appeals to the Quarter Sessions. The Tax on the Fundi,it was said, was to be eulleded at the Bank. We were astonished when we heard the proposition, because the thing is impossible. To have colleded the Tax at the Bank, the Pireelors. must have begun by creating themselves into a ge neral body of Commissioners, under the At ; fur otherwise how would it have been possible fo: them to have made the proper •dedudions on account of Property under 601. per annum, Sec. &c. The probability is, that the old Income Tax will be resorted to. - When that Tax was first pro. posed, nobody affeded to say that in all cases it would be found . to bear, with precise accuracy and equality upon all the branches of the community ; but it was universally admitted to be absolutely ne. cessary to raise a large sum for public purposes within the •year—and, with all its imperfedions upon its head, it was adopted by the Public Spirit of the Nation, no better mode of effeding the same object having been devised. Many persons, at the time we arc speaking of, doubted, (we thought foolishly) whether the necessity of making as large a sacrifice as • tbat measure called for; ab so l ute ly existed ; and to this . doubt may be principally reietred all cavil; . ‘v,lticlt were Jtervards made agaitht it. Bor. doe's any body tiotibt the nrce6,;ity now ? The question nott , i be. kveen the cons tibnCont. I c evie4kv 130 4 tllt, and the Tneorne.Tax imposed by the British Parliament. if there are any among us who prefer the former, they will grumble at the Tax, and endeavour, to excite disturbance ; but those who prele,r the latter will consider the best means of rendering it as little burthensome and vexatious as possible, but will pay it with cheerful hearts, because they know the value of that which it will be the means of preserving to them. Windsor continues to be full of Company. Ocie Wednesday evening the Terrace, that beautol', Promenade, was crowded. Among the Compaq we noticed the Earl of Ux nlt I pcir, . and Lord ail Lady HENLEY. THEIR MAjtsTIES, the Pritt CESSCS MARY, SOPH lA, ANIE I. lA, and the Princtil CHARLOTTE of WALES, arrived soon after eve o'clock. The young Princess appeared extremely gratified with the sight ; she principally associated with Major DESI 3 ROW 'S children, and they alt 2 played together. The Staffordshire Band is a veryti capital numerous. one ; they have five Bass instru.'7 menu. and a Trombone ; t h e i r pl a ying attraded the*: attention of the young Princess, and they ployest several favourite tunes at her request, partieularlf " Sir. David Hunter Blair's Reel," and ii Speed the Plough." , Her desire was made known to the Band by Majnl DIOS ROW. On Wednesday evening the Patric tsses Auct:sv. .• of and EL z stir, attenTled by the Marchioness of nud the Countess of ri.O, F , took. an airing in 0 sociable through the plantations in the Great Park. Early yesterday morning Mr. VitAcrrAvr, Messenger ; arrived at Windsor with dispatches to HIS MAJISTT• Yesterday morning about nine o'clock, Hts MA' /Ivry and the PatNctSSIS SOPHIA and Amattx took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great Park. About twelve o'clock Haa MAJESTY, and the Princesses AUGUSTA / EL, AD BTU s MARY, pa the Princess CHARLOTTE of Witots, took als air-; ing in a Phaeton and two Soeiables, through Eton', and honoured Miss Vast, at Stoke green, with 4: morning visit ; the Royal Party amused themselves with walking in Miss VYSE'S delightful Garden* and afterwards partook of some refreshments. • Last night Tit tit MA I E STI as had a Seidl Nap among them were Lord and Lady By I.,KELET, Lord and Lady HENLEY. Hcr Majesty's Band played in an adjoining room" The following notice was yesterday publicly read at the Stock Exchange : " Mr. Coitity, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Tor land, is, from particular circumstances, under the necessitY of fixing Friday the btlt of July instead of MondaY th y , r ith of tiir receiving the bidd i ng for the Nish 1.0 2311 t,00.),0001. at the Castle, in Minim. Yesterday a Common Council was held at hall, when the LORD Mavoß informed the Courts he had called them together for the purpose of 40' sidering a Letter he had received from the SPC IO " . : TARP at WAR, respeBing the number of men t' l :,; be raised by the City, when the Court tesolv6R: teat Soo men be Noluntarily' raised for the serviclh:l and referred it to the Militia Committee .40..c0i0: cider and report on the best means to be adopttit for raising the said men. To-morrow a Court of Common Council wilt be held to receive the Report from the Militia Caw . mitt cr. ' The Earl Of HARDW IcK g i it is said, has writtert to be recalled from Ireland, he conceiving that tho Offices of Lord Lieutenant and Commander in Chief of the Forces should be united in some Mili tary Man. it is probable that Marquis CON' WALL is may be re.appointed to that important sta tion. This day the two Regiments 9f London Militia were inspeOed by General Lits&min the Artillery Ground. Sir Jottx Lttc &tr a, • has made an offer to Co. vernrnent to raise a Regiment of Cavalry upon hie own estate in Cheshire. it Te n s ti a. ot Colonel of Cavalry t h e 2 ta f s or tm Government mean immediately t o r a i se P our It e .l Li p t n h a e t‘ line. General Hiatt. is Yo have one of them ; land. A great firing it. seems Was heard at Dolt Itoy is a a l p m po t in ti t n ed7 estnsszcpoaf: Scot. intend the recru i t i ng on Wednesday last coming from the (Patter of 41,(44:1" from which it was concluded that the Culp' , sttt had arrived at that time at that place. An able Naval Officer suggested the idea ditys ago, of having a tew Bomb Vessels reil Dover to drop over with the night tide, and bard Calait the night .the Chief Consul was t there, which would be on Wednesday evenin This would have given him, a fort.tazie a sweets of invasion, bur it was thought too AC `a me - attire to be pursued against klit,consular • jury. Capt. COCIIRANR'S remark on Wednesday, ing in the House of Commons relative to the Marines, is surely well worthy of attention. present there are .J not zoo Men at the Head .J all the three Divisions of that Corps p geffier• ;a 4 ' Every body must be struck with the different, ill the conduit of Mr. Fox and Mr. PITT. The Lo u r' superior to the bias of Party when the interess of his Country are concerned, anxiously attends tdbis public duty, and by the aid of his Counsels imprwes every plan for the national defence. The oast seems to he sunk into a disgraceful torpor, thst i . renders him totally indifferent to the welfarti' the State and to the sen t i ment s o f hi s Countryu and only alive t o the inglorious enjoyment of 4 luptuous ease, at a time when an ambitious and it:.,, placable Foe threatens us with ruin and extirpati# as a People. As Mr. Tr Ettrceir has always held himself forstut as a staunch advocate for public principles and di ' interested patriotism, it might be thought that s.! ,t, would have made some chew of those Principl; it when he came into Office, or, at least, that he woo ) vadually ha ve c h ange d f rom patriotic ostentat 0 : , to private p ar ti a li ty . Tice rapidity, however, w ir . . which tie di stn i sse d M r . T ROTTORI in order il, make room f or hi s - B rot h er- i n- L a shews that 0 , is already u tt er l y indifierent to public opinion. i i- B rot h er - i n- L aw s 14