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„\ y, t_-. NAVAL 'I. ' - 1( ' r trt k.” i y N - " ~.,, ,z- >s-,---‘• Nan illi imperium pelagi, sdruumgue tridenteht, Std mibl torte datum. YARMOUTH, MARCii ili IT is currently reported that the Fleet have Orders to sail immediately, but none of them arc yet unmoored ; and as it blows pretty fresh at S. S. E. with hazy weather, it is not likely they will stir to-day. • Sailed, twenty sail of Ships bound for Green land and Davis's Streights, under convoy of the Squirrel Sloop of War. Admiral DICKSON has shifted his Flag this morning from the Monarch to the Princess of Orange. PLYMOUTH, ,MARCH ARRIVED the Urania, of 38 guns, Capt. G. TOWRY, and Triton, of 32 guns, Capt. J. GORE, froin a Cruize ; also the' TerriZle, of 74 guns, from the Channel Fleet. Sailed the Magnificent, of 7+ guns, to join the Channel Fleet. A large French Brig Privateer is now standing into the Sound. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 11. ARRIVED this day His Majesty's Ship Beaver, from a Cruize. Sailed the Defiance, Admiral GRAv ES, for the North Seas ; Weazle Sloop of War, to the West ward ; Rose cutter, for Marcou island; Fielding, 13Roww, for Liverpool ; and Totten, WILD, fur Waterford. Arrived the Agiroe, HAItVIY I from Chiches ter : this Sloop was boarded yesterday morning about three miles from land, by six Frenchmen, who had escaped in a four.oar'd labat from For. Yon Prison ; they took possession of her, and re_ twined on board till tvening, when there being no wind, they. took. to the boat, and, steered for France. • , SHEERN.Ess, Mratcx SAILED His Majesty's Ship Terpitharo, of 32 guns, Captain MACKELLAR, for the Downs; the Alego and Otter Fire ships, and the illag hired Cutter, with a Convoy for Yarmouth. Arrived the Providence hired Cutter, Lieut. CowAN, from a Cruize. The Ann Armed Ship has gone , up the Thames. Ins IsA4esty's Ship invincible has gone out of liarbour. PEAL, MARCH II.,• I-its . Majesty's Ship Edgar, Savage Sloop, and rentve Gun-brig, arrived this morning from the Westward: the. latter sailed through the Downs to the Northward, and the two former remain. ADMIRALTY COURT, MARC!! 10. ATI Appeal came on to be heard before Sir Wr LtAM SCOTT, against the condemnation of a vessel bound from Saffee, on the coast of Africa, to Hamburgh, which had been captured of the 'Texel, during the blockade of that city, and condemned as good prize. His Majesty's Advocate was heard 'on behalf of the captors. He submitted, that the vessel's 'real destination was to Amsterdam. This had been proved by the papers found on hoard, and that her destination being stated to be for Ham burgh, was only a colourable pretext, as she was taken in a contrary diration from that place. On these grounds he contended, that judgment ought to go for the captors. , On the other . side, Dr. LAWRENCE was heard for the owners of the ship and cargo. He stated they were Mauritians, and of course could not be supposed to know of any blockade having taken place at Hamburgh, living at so great a distance, andbeing ignoiant of the language. of this country. besides, the Emperor of Morocco being at peace a‘vith England, they were not bound to obey any restriEtion a Power with whom they were at peace chose to set up. The letters were all written in Arabic ; and it appeared that a number of ar ticles on board the ship were sent as presents to his brother by the shipper, who requested him to send some religious books in return. He contend ed there was not the least intention of c%irling the laws prescribed by this nation, as th2y were not apprised of any blockade being intended ; and it was a faa, that several of our own ships knew nothing of the circumstance until some time after it had taken place. He contended, that under these circumstances, the ship and cargo ought to be restored. The Learned Judge deferred giving judgment till a ftiture day. A requisition has been made to the Trinity House at Hull, for twelve Pilots to serve on board the Fleet destined for the Baltic. As our Readers may be anxious to know the strength and disposition of the British Fleet under the command of Lord K.Elni, we believe we ran give them an Murat ateount of 140-- The whole force under his Lordship's command consists of Thirteen Ships of the Line ) Seven of which are under his ithrnediate tither's., and are supposed to be cruizing off Alexandria, or some of the Mouths of the Nile.—Four were with Sir JOHN WARREN at Cadiz, which it is thought highly probable may. have followed. Admiral GANTFIEAUME into the Mediterranean. The Two others were supposed to be either at Malta or Minorca. There is also a chance that Sir R. CAttAtt may have received intelligence, which may have determined him to steer tbr the Mediterranean. At all events Lord Kr I 1 H will be much more than a match for the French Ad miral, even if his Ships were fresh, whereas they were, by his own account, very much damaged by the tempest which they encountered near Brest. It is possible that we may hear of GAN THEAUME'S taking a few Merchant' Ships, which may probably be the whole extent of the success of the Expedition. The West India Convoy sailed from the Cove of Cork on Saturday last. Orders are received at Plymouth for all armed Prizes, which may be thought fit to be examined previous to being taken into His Majesty's ser vice, to be surveyed, with their masts and rig ging, and not stripped as heretofore, till reported. THE ORATORIOS. Covent _Garden. THE beautiful Serenata of Acis and Galatea, and a Miscellaneous Seleaion from HANDEL, constituted the attraction of last night at this place, the whole of which was very ably sustain ed, particularly by DENMAN, 'NCIEDON, Mrs. SECOND, and Master SMITH. Miss TYREIt also conspicuously distinguished her abilities. DENMAN sung, " Oh ruddier than a Cherry," with great energy and correctness. INCLEDON was most successful in "Love sounds the Alarm." A young Lady, Whose name we did not hear, played a Concerto on the Pianc-Forrf with extra ordinary ability, considering that she is totally blind. The Serious Entertainments at this place, are well diversified with Instrumental Pieces. There was a numerous, though, by no means, a crowded Audience. Hay-Market. The recent success of , MOZART'S celebrated Requiem has induced Signior RAVZZINJ, so well known in the Musical World, and so deservedly esteemed for genius and the merits of his private character, to come forward with a Work of the same kind, which was performed last night at this place. RAUZZINI himself presided at the Harpsichord. The Piece was highly impressive and beautiful, with as much .variety► as could be admitted in a Composition of such a nature. It received admirable support from Madame MARA, Mrs. MOUNTAIN, NIELD, WP.I.SH, and KNY VETT, and was much applauded by a numerous Audience. The passages most admired were a Quintetto and Chorus, and a very charming Air by Madame MARA. This Composition is not a Work of mere Science, but is enriched by the powers of strong sensibility and a pregnant ima gination. The Author received a marked tri bute of applause for the high merits of his pro dutlion. The first aft consisted of this excellent Re flt;em. The second' and third were seleaions from HANDEL, which received a powerful sup. port from MARA and the rest of the Performers. Her " What though I trace each herb and your," was a delicious specimen of vocal excellence. re gulated by exad judgment, and heightened by taste and expression. A Committee of Trade was held yesterday at Lord Liverpool's Office, Whitehall, consisting of the following Members : —.Earls SPENCER and CLARE; Lords lIAWKESBURY, AtiCKLAND, and CASTLEREAGH ; Mr. PITT, Sir W. SCOTT, Mr. RYDER, SZC. &C. Lord Sr. VINCENT'S house at the' Admiralty is undergoing some repairs, and is new painting, before his Lordship'takes possession of it. It seems to be the wish of the Herm;t of St. Anne's 11, whatever differences he may formerly have had with ',a certain Reverend Politician, to be his colleague in some way or , other, for else he would hardly have taken so aetive a part relative to the' senatori4 digg.qity of the latter. The effea of the Hermit's retirement seems very evident, for lie did not appear on the occasion alluded to, to, be capable of . disarming -a very plain distinßio . v, Perhaps time, indeed, nay have co-operated with indolence, for it is u suspett the Gentleman of an intention to fruzxle and confuse. But whether he is to be. considered as a dotard or a dissembler, it' is manifest that he is no longer fit for the office to which his blind and desperate adherents are so anxious to see him re stored, SPo:ivrtNO.Wednesday se'nnight a hag fox, saved by the Brighton Hunt, and reserved for a, future day's sport, was again turned our and killed, after a chace of about fifty minutes. The PR t Rio E's' harriers, on'the same day, hunnfd a hare so gal lantly to the edge of Lewes river, near Land_ port, that poor puss, to escape them, found her_ self compelled to cross the water ; but being followed by the huntsman and some others of the. field, she fell a vielim to her keen pursuers.—The sane day the Brookside hounds killed a leash of hares, and ran a fourth so hard, that she was taken up alive, and is now in keeping for the diver siun of Pedestrian Hunters, before whom she is to be turned out. on the Downs. On Monday last at noon, as Mr. Neale, of the East India House was on his return home, he was met by a man near the Gun, in the road leading to Lambeth, who took from him a gold watch, chain, seals, &c. of the value of thirty :g4incas,_ with which he ran &Aland escaped, though Mr. Ncale purocci him near two milcs, luqrrisil 1?1 TnE7O: FINANCIAL PACTS, O .P THE kICHTEERTf3 CEN TURY, OR A CURSORY VIEW, WITH COM PARATIVE STATEMENTS Or THE REV ENUPi EXPENDITURE, DEBTS, DiANUF ACTURES, AND COMMERCE IA GREAT BRITAIN; WH tt. F the Croakers of Opposition; and while even thany well disposed meta are abandoning themselves to despondent views of otir Financial situation, the Author of the Work now before us has undertaken to thew that there is little foundation for their fears, and that the situation of England in tBOO, compared with what the gloomy class to whom we allude, admit to have been its situation in Fioo; is relatively improv. ed : that the weight of Taxes is compensated by the increased means of the People to support them : and that if the pressure appears enormous, it must appear so only to those who are ignorant of the progress of our Commerce and Manufac tures. The labours of the Writer on Financial Subjefts, like those of the Historian, cannot, from the nature of the subjeß, be original, and it is no inconsiderable praise to the Author of Fi nancial Far: r, that the Fads which he advances rest on the authority either of Official Papers, or the most approved works on Political Economy. The combination and arrangement of his ma terials have however such original merit, that most readers will give him credit for having fur nished them with new ideas upon the subjed.— We do not remember to have seen the following Tables so well contrasted in any former pub lication : " THE following is an abstral of the Receipts and Payments for one year, from Michaelmas 1700 to Michaelmas 1701 : PAID INTO THE EXCHEQUER. For Customs - - IC. 1 +539+ 100 Excise - - - • 986,004 Hearth-money and Post-office, &c. 1 3 0+399 Land Tax, 2S. in the Pound . 8 35+4 0 5 Poll Taxes - . - .. 1 4+ 81 4 Promiscuous Taxes - - 249,737 Sundry other Receipts . - - 13,916 TOtal Revenue the first year of the Eighteenth Century 3,7 6 9,375 The estimated, permanent, and temporary Revenue for the last year 180 u 36,722,0p0 Total additional Revenue in Zoo years X. 32,958,625 " The following is an abstraet of the Sums is sued or paid from Michaelmas 1700 to Michael mas 1701 Sea Service - ,C. 1 1 0 70 4:3 3 9 39 Land Service - 4: 4 2 5 , 99 6 Ordnance for Sea and Land Service Miscellaneous Services - 1,411,912 Total issued k. 3,638,5E6 At the close of King William's reign, the an nual value of Exports arnountad to C. 3425.9 6 AM the value of Imports to - 3,482,5g0 The Balance in out favour amounted to " The total value of Exports and Imports, therefor; amounted to little more than Seven 43,3 26 The total value of the Exports of Great tftin y ear enuili ) tri January, • tgoo, including no less than the value of more than 24 Millions in British Manufaaures,_ amounted to - •- 1 ••: • . 35,99 cce00 Total value of Imports into Great Britain for , the year ending sth January, ißoo . 2 9?94.51 808 • Amount of Exports and Imports . - 65,935,808 Thebalanrc in out favour - 6,044,192 _..._,.. The Proprietors of East India Stock will be gratified at geeing the increase of .:Commerce which a century has produced in their individual concerns. . • • . -- rc These faEts are obvious, since-we—fittd—that our Exports now, compared with those in the beginning of the eighteenth century, have, from the most accurate .compntation, inc eased , nearly in a twelvefold proportion : that the. aggregate amount of Exports and Imports has increased in a tenfold proportion ; and that the apparent ba lance o f Trade in our faour at this period, .com - , it v pared with a century ago,, is augmentaih the incredible proportion of one hundred and forty fold.. .It is to be obierved; than the annual pub lic sales of Teas by the East India Company, did not in'the beginning of the eighteenth cen tury, much exceed go,ooo pounds weight : the Company's annual sales now approach to twenty. millions of pounds weight, being an in crease of four hundred fold in one hundred years. It is also worthy of remark ) that the-late Tax on Imports and Exports alone, is estimated to pro duce for 'Soo no less a sum than r,iso,ocsol. which is nearly one half the amount of public re venue in the year 1700." . We , A nIrI not Art jnctir t. either to ate Author or to our Readerh did we not extra& a passage which, though our limits compel us to make it shim, .is sufficient to shew that the Credit and Resources of England have no weak advocate in the Gentleman who has here ,taken up their cause : " From every consideration of all these pro pitious circumstanoes, have we •not, therefore, cause for exultation rather than despondency ? In thus having the sources developed whence' such immense revenue "is drawn, it must convey conyiaion to th'e most sceptical mind, of the in creasing wealth and prosperity of the Country : at the same time it will exhibit to our Enemies the increased energy excited in the Nation from a continuance of the Content in which we are now, from dire necessity, engaged ; and will tend to impress our accumulated Foes with a pro. per idea of our extensive power, resulting from the wonderful resources of the Kingdom, fairly brought into aftion. Another criterion of the wealth and pro_ sperity 'of a Nation is, the lowness of interest and augmented value of land. Jn France, at the yresent moment (iSot), money produces from It to It per cent, and landed property is only valued from fourteen to fifteen years purchase.— In this Country, about an hundred years ao . o, in terest was from S.; to ner cent. and landed urn.- pOty from fiften to eighteen years purchase.- - .... But tier:; 'exemplified by the Loan of last 'year, Government may raise money under s per tent, and landed property is increased from tWenty-eight to thirty years purchase. Lowness of interest, as Mr: HUMS obtetves, proceds from three circumstances ) viz. the small demand for borroWing, great riches to supply that deg mind, and small profits arising from Comaierce_ And these circumstances‘ are all connected gether, and proceed from the increase of Indus. try and Trade, not of gold and silver. Low_ ness of interest) therefore, we find raises the value of land s and the contrary in an inverse rade: The Value of land has progressively creased in consequence of improvements in Agri— culture,' as Well as lowness of interest, and the increased consumption of the prodlice . of the land. Before England became a trading Nation, we find the general price of land to have been twelve years purchase ; and we sec it is little More at - the present day in Franee„ since their trade has been almost annihilated,' 'ln the begin-, ping of the seventeenth century, land sold in England from fourteen to sixteen ' , ears purchase, and at the comnitneement of the eighteenth century it had advaneed to about eighteen year Spur.. chase ; k half a century more it rose to about twenty-four years purchase ; and at fl.-sent, as we have already observed, it is gen,:r.diy valued from twenty-eight to thirty years purchase. " This:increase of the number of .years pur chase of land, is the best and most obvious proof of its augmented value, and is the effat of low.. ness of interest and the increased consumption of its produce, combined with the general trade of the Nation. g‘ The progressive influx of wealth into Great Britain, bears a proportion still much greater than the most sanguine Calculator could 'expeeil since, according to Sir WM. PETTY'S computa. tion in the year 1664, the total wealth of the Nation, consisting of lands, houses, shipping, gold and silver coin, wares; merchandise,' plate, furniture, &c. amounted only to two inindred and fifty milliont„ and the whole annual profit he computed at fifteen millions : Mr. Hobx com puted the whole value of real and personal pro. perty about fifty years ago, at two thousand one hundred millions sterling. Sir Wm. Po LTENEY, in about thirty years after, valued the landed and personal property at tewo thousand millions-. The total amount of the wealth of Great Britain, con:- sisting of the value of articles above enumerated, is at present computed (and we have reason to believe with sufficient correclnest;) to be no less than the enormous sum of two thousand seven hundred millions ; and its whole annual produce may be fairly estimated at four hundred and five millions sterling, since the annual , interest of this accumulated wealth will amount to one hundred and thirty-five millions. Hence it ap pears, that in less than iso .years the national wealth of Great Britain has increased in the im.. mense sum of t'w Thousand five hundred and ffty millions; and the annual interest of the said in,. crease of wealth amounts to upwards of one bun.. dyed and tetoenty-seven millions five hundred Thou sand 'sterling. If, therefore, we allow ss per cent: for the annual profits or produce of such increase of wealth, it will amount to upwards of - three hundred- and eigh{y-two millions five hundred thousand sterling, additional income, in less than i se) years, being an increase at the rate csf two millions five hundred and fifty pounds sterling per annum of general income." At Lord HENNIKER'S 'estate of Dunmow, in .P.ssex, are six ewes, which were last week deli, vered of fifteen lambs; three of ,the ewes has" three lambs each,. the other three had two each one half are. black, the others white, Wtrunderstand. that an experiment has lately been made respeaiug the water with which C4n, ton. in China, is supplied.--In single gallon of it there remained, :on straining it, half a pint of yellow sand ;! yet in this state, the 'people of .the country universally use it, and have ,no idea.cd perifying.it by•filtration. ;, A most remarkable Tower - has 'been erefled hi Nankin, in China, which is two hundred feet high from the hnse ; it is built entirely of linc porcelain of various colours, and exhibits a very curious appearance. The TrOops 'belonging to the King. of BU R.. MAK have at last demolished their ere. ions the Company's Frontiers, and withdraWn all their armed Boats 'from the Naaf. Colonel BON JOUR has concluded a Treaty with - the Chiefs of the Burmah Army, not to molest. the Ethi_ grants whO had sought the Company's protedion, and might hereafter return to Burmah. A REPROVING FAG Resbu ry, a Divine in the , reign of Charles 11. while walking in the streets of Windsor, observed a' person pass him, and turn frequently', to consider him with atten tion. Offended at length by An obsztvation so pointed, he roughly reproved the tranger for his impertinence, who bowing, and c ivilly ask ing pardon, informed the Do6tbr, that he Wai painter, and was then engaged in designing a pielure of Nathan reproving David, and never had he.seen'a fare so reproving as that of his Re. verend antagonist. The Doctor, enraged, used. still harsher ianguage.—“ It is enough, Sir (re plied the artist), I have got as much as I desire, and am greatly indebted to you"—saying which, he coolly walked away. , Late on Wednesday night, the' t Sth ult. two villains in disguise 'entered the dwelling-house of Mr. John Brown, farm.2r, at Dea4e-bridge-gate, pear.Felton, Northumberland, and carried away cash to a considerable amount, :_ , :sicics s67e.•:al portable artifics. Mrs. Brow: a:,crudeki the chimney, aha sat upon the crook -treo, w;th young child, whilc., her bustand and brother wor e confined iu bed by one of the 'robbers, till the other ransacked the house. On Sgurday seinnight two men_ ‘.l-e apprehended on suspicion of abov., burglary, but .escaped from the constaill e ., as they were carrvint them before it