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j _ t/privy (t7V v. N UAII3ER 9301.] EAST INDIA HOUSE, June 1:2, 1522. TUE. COURT of DIRECTORS of the L UNITED COMPANY of MERCHA NTS of ENG- L`tt., r) TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, - That the QUARTERLY GEN ERAL COURT appointed ,to h 1"4 het at this House in Leadenhall -street, on WEDNES -1- :Y NEXT, the 19th Instant, is made SPEC IAL, for the "le of resuming the consideration of a Bill now pend -411 in Parliament, for consolidating the several Laws relat- Ig g to the Private Trade with the East Indies: and also the : 7 131cl eration of the propriety of concu r r in g in the re p eal of 4 Lw , by which Ships under the but then of 350 Tons arc at P r esent precluded from engaging in su ch Trade from the 11 'ted Kingdom. CO , to IY of the Bill, and of the Correspondence between the 2' 14 of Directors and the Board of Commissioners for the ;: f airs of India upon the subject of it, is open fo r the Per al of the Proprietors. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. CARD,A GENTLEMAN of Respecta tvi:b bility and of Classical Education, about to proceed to tro 48 9 will be happy to Execute any COMMISSION in ttld to hi m , by a Merchant, Tradesman, or other Gentle- Z , or he would feel pleasure in receiving an Intimation for the Y Gentleman to whom his Services may be acceptable c oni g promotion of an object, and would execute any charge ti ori 'flitted to him with fidelity and exactness.—Communica he2 adlressed (post paid) to Mr. Clementson, Stationer, Lam tei;itioM„:4lk, before the 22d instant , will receive immediate`at " I[lll.Elsdt of NEXT MONTII,(JULY)The TE N ,tiItAND SUMMER, LOTTERY begins drawing, and the rITALS must be drawn in the first Ten Minutes; for i f; du le Ten may be gained for a Risk of Nineteen Pounds ; cost t he Plan adopted, a Whole Ticket will ultimately ouly PI ; h . 18 s , and a Sixteenth only Four Shillings, as is ex •-aCe,_(-1 iii-the Schemes, which are given gratis. 4,C"t'ets: and Shares are selling by DISH, Stock-Broker, whooriihill, and %Charing Cross, London ; and by his Agents, and lit last Two Months, have sold Two Prizes of 20,0001. 1) - "`"-Y-five other Capitals. b ef _ resent Price of a Ticket is 211. 18s. and if returned on - or b e ' ti re 2 Gt l i JULY, 201. may be received back, though it may Illo s pT % . -1 a Blank, small Prize, or utulrawn ; so that the all i","lat caUbe - hist is IL 18s. after having had a chance fur laa v " i ! 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After the exhibition twenty - seven •T% c - " le n onl sat down to an excellent dinner, provided at -- :2!ge Inn y . The Chair was taken by the President, Sir 4 (ld' n g, Bait. Sir Thomas Baring made a most feeling Pri n : i ss to the Meeting. He described the present ruin as eic ess i l allY owing to the alteration in the currency, andthe Is ider it ile taxation. Sir Henry Wilson differed from the Pre - 4tt t ib„as to the causes of the present distresses of the farmer, Whiethem chiefly to the want of that market at, home, mute "ting the war, carried off every description of pro o h e or thc Army and Navy. We were, however, most happy poi lt r, that although the two worthy Baronets differed on th pledged themselves to the Society fairly and ite n - t 5: 1 " 4 ,. 01 Y to meet the ruin of the lieriod by reductions of end an with these assurances, and fully expecting that all linapi e e owners in the county would follow , their ex ' th e Party broke up with spirits somewhat exhilirated. • \ „V , • a 'N _ ,sr „ • ill Wt" \!."=.1 1 ? 411 ' 0 " \ /AZ bl MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1822. tice of a distant motion, for the purpoie of bringing the whole measure into discussion. But it was impossible to tolerate the repeated attacks of those who did not at that time oppose the measure but now brought it forward in order to raise a feel ing of dissatisfaction in the public mind. The Hon. Baronet had said, that he owed the Ministers no gratitude. Why, which of the Ministers had required it ? Who had claimed any obligation on the late remission of taxes ? Some approba tion had been expressed (as he thought properly) regarding the selection by Government of the different taxes to be repealed ; but was it not,-he ,asked, possible for Members to express their satisfaction at any particular act of Ministers without a - taunt being thrown out against the latter, that they had sought the abject gratitude of the House? The only' approbation that Ministers required/was that which arose from the consci ousness of having performed their duty. They wanted no gratitude, but they did ask for justice. They required the justice of being protected from the imputation of improper motives. With respect to the other topics urged by the Hon. Baronet, he would wait for the opportunity of expressing him self when those subjects should be brought before the House. "Mr. DENMAN said, that the Hon. Bart. would indeed be unfortunate, if he could not find measures which had been brought forward by - that side of the House, at least as perspi cuous as any which had emanated-frot* th:: Noble Lord. He begged leave to say that, applauding as he did the measure of 1819, a measure which Ministers had adopted with reluctance, and which had been suggested by Members on his (Mr. D.'s) side of the House, yet still he thought that the measure cast a reflection upon Ministers for having so long acted" on the ini quitous system which the Bill in question put an end to. It was not their duty to double the expenditure on one hand, and on the other to impose taxes of 3,000,0001. The people had in 1816 a right to that reduction which had now been made so reluctantly. Instead of that, the object of Ministers, at the expiration of the war, had been to support the Income Tax against_ their own positive and recorded pledges. The Noble Lord had accused his Hon. Friend, on a former evening, of skulking away with praises to which he was not entitled, by stealing a leaf from the Book of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer ; but he thought it evident that the reductions made had been reluctantly adopted from the suggestions of his side of the House. "Mr. BENNET explained, and disclaimed all gratitude to Ministers for the reductions lately made. " Lord LONDONDERRY observed, that he had never im puted to the Honourable Member the quality which he dis claimed. " 111 r. JAMES made a few remarks. " The Petition was then brought up. " On the question that the Petition be read, " Sir T. LETHBRIDGE, in adverting to the expressions used by the Noble Lord, -denied-that he had used inflammatory• language, or language likely to create an inflammatory feeling ; but he uttered what he intended diurnally to utter, viz. the complaint of the people. if he did not ,do so diurnally; he should neglect his duty. The measures of Government were gradually bringing forward Parliamentary Reform. The• yeomanry, of the country were now becoming reformers. Those who had formerly turned away from Reformers with contempt, now listened to them cheerfully. For his own part he thought Parliamentary Reform necessary. •He was of that opinion, : and he thought that the House, ought in justice to contain a greater proportion of landed proprietors. He would agree in such a Reform as had been brought forward by a Noble Lord (Russell), and if ever that motion was again brought forward he would vote for it. He hoped that the Noble Lord would not again accuse him of being inflammatory, though he did wear a white hat." Now, so far is the writer from thinking the language held by the worthy Baronet and his supporters as too bold or energetic for the occa sion, had he-himself been honoured with a seat in that Assembly, he should have gone to still greater lengths, and said this or something to the like purpose, in answer to the Noble Mar quis, who, with apparent triumph and self satis faction, appeared to sit him down. " With every good wish and honourable intention to support the Government of my country and its. Ministers, as has been sufficiently apparent in the support I have generally given them upon most former occasions, I cannot, as the represen tative of a great and opulent county, see the interests not only of that county, but of every county in the kingdom, subjected to total ruin by measures within the power of remedy, without lifting up my voice against such measures, and predicting their inevitable consequences if per sisted in. By. a Bill, prematurely certainly though probably with good intentions, adopted, has the whole currency of this kingdom been radically and substantially altered, and with it every contract, public and private, subjected to proportional alteration. Did this very important change of system bear equally hard on all classes of society, and it were made apparent by solid and substantial reasoning that it were necessary to the general interests of society that a system, under which the Kingdom had prospered for up wards of twenty years, should be wholly done away and another substituted in its place, as a mere matter of experiment how far a community incumbered with a debt of 800 millions, through the means of a paper currency, could discharge the interest of that debt and support its establish ment in a metallic one, which it seems is alone to be honoured with the title of a sane currency ; when I see this dangerous experiment made at the immediate expellee of all that is dear to a country ; when I see, besides, the effects of this experiment bearing most unequally and unjustly on the landed interests of the country, it would be little short of total imbecility to sit still and not predict in the most intelligible language the inevitable consequence of a persistence in a sys tem at once so ruinous and unjust. The weight of that terrific measure, my Lord, bears solely and exclusively on the landed proprietors of the kingdom, as must be but too apparent to every one who takes a considerate and impartial view of the subject in all its bearings and relations. By that Bill every contract, public and private, in the kingdom is at once changed. The Land holder is compellible to pay in a metallic currency what was imposed upon him in a paper one, at a loss of at least 33 per cent. when the prices of all his articles of produce are depreciated in an exactly, or at least a nearly, similar proportion, whilst the monied and funded man, every officer under Government, and in short every man of fixed revenue in the kingdom, has his income pro portionably raised, for he receives more than he advanced in a ratio of 33 per cent. whilst he purchases all the necessary and most of the superfluous articles of life, at a ratio diminished in like proportion, so that in fact every .Land owner or cultivator in the country has his income reduced to less than a moiety of its just propor tion, whilst the monied one has his raised in a precisely equal ratio. These are facts too glar ing to be opposed with any semblance of truth or reason s and can it be supposed that millions FOR THE SUN. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Ma. Enrron—Seeing in the public Papers the report of a very interesting debate on the pre sent truly distressful state of the Kingdom, in which Sir T. LE'TIIBRIDGE, M. P. for the county of Somerset, and his supporters are said to have used too bold and dangerous a language ; and as the subject is at this time of the deepest interest to every member of the community, I think it not amiss to give the heads of that debate at large, and subjoin such observations as occur to me on the subject : " Mr. COKE presented a petition from certain Agriculturists of Norfolk, complaining of distress, and praying for relief. " Sir T. LETunitiDGE rose to protest against the general indifference manifested by the Government on this subject.— He had hitherto•suppdrted the Government ; but if lie sup ported them now, he should do so at the risk of having one man lift his hand against another, and do injury to the Consti tution. Nothing less than injustice was now played off against the people, whether regard were had to the parliamentary or the parochial taxation. He had a motion fixed on the subject, and would endeavour to show that high protecting duties were ab solutely necessary for the preservation of the farmer. From being an agricultural we had become an highly mercantile and monied people ; we had, in fact, changed our character, and tiresome as those petitions might be, it was better to bear this now than meet something worse hereafter. " The Marquis of LONDONDERRY was glad the period was now arrived when the House would be put in possession of the Hon. Baronet's proposal. He - thought those daily speeches had something of an inflammatory character about them, and the more so when it was recollected how much the Government had done in the remission of taxes. In fact nothing seemed to call forth more jocularity from the other side of the House than any measures of practical relief for the people. He understood the whole object of the Hon. Baronet to be, that butter, cheese, and flax should be protected ; but he was quite sure the great operations of nature could not be altered, and that wheat at 475. a quarter could not be sold at 70s. Protection, in his vocabu lary, only meant price, andhe was at length glad that the mo tion was to come forward. If his views could be accomplished, he would most warmly second him. But at the same time he lodgged it might not be considered unbecoming of him jibe did not oftener rise to meet those inflammatory exclamations. He gave the Hon. Baronet credit for his manliness, but thought some of his observations might be spared. " 11Ir. BENETT (Wilts) said, it was not unnatural that the landholders should use strong language, aye, even terms of re monstrance. The tenantry were ruined, and the landholders were called upon to speak their opinions boldly in this House. If the Government did not attend to the petitions of the people, other petitions, and couched in very strong language, would be reiterated. He did not wish to have insulting petitions re ceived, but mere formality should not interpose to prohibit the people from the exercise of their rights. • " Mr. H. G. BENNET said, in his view, the time for dis cussion was on the presentation of petitions. He cared not for majorities in this House, but he wished for discussion out of doors. No doubt the Noble Lord had rather enter into discus sion when he had his trained bands about him, or, to use a favourite phrase of his, when'he had a field day' in the House of Commons. At this side of the House they did not laugh at the relief afforded to the people though they certainly were jocular at the powers of face exhibited by the Noble Lord and the Chancellor, who took away by filching and larceny from the Sinking Fund what they dared not do openly; and yet they had still preserved that fund. As he before said, the Noble Lord was forced into Ale reductions which he made, and though he boasted of this splendid measure, it was one which he knew he never could carry into effect. The Noble Lord might think it better to discuss matters when surrounded by his forces, but for his (Mr. B.'s) part, he thought all occasions should be taken for remedying the distresses and hearing the prayers of the people. " Mr. 111oNcx. entirely concurred in the observations of his Hon. Friend. " Mr. LEYCESTER corroborated the statement of the Hon. Member who had presented the Petition. He recollected an anecdote of our late Sovereign, who, on one occasion, reviewing a regiment of Yeomanry, observed- 4 I like these people, not for what they have in their hands, but for what they have in their pockets.' Those pockets were now turned out : he left it to the Gentlemen on the other side to draw the moral. " Sir F. BURDETT wished to offer a few words. He trusted that the Hon. Baronet (Sir T. L.), as well as the rest of the Country Gentlemen, would not suppress their understandings with regara to their own condition ; that they would make their sentiments known to the House; and then it would fol low that a feeling would arise in the country which would find a re-action in the House, and oblige Ministers to take measures for the recovery of the _country. He did not despair of the country, and he believed that its distresses were chiefly to be at. tributed to the ignorance of Ministers, who did not know its real state. In one respect he dissented from the Hon. Bart., for he felt no gratitude to Ministers for the remission of taxes which they had just granted. On the contrary, he thought that the coun. try had a right to have expected that remission many years ago. How often had the House been told, that if they did not sup port the extravagance of Ministers they would resign ; and how often had that threat procured the support of Members, against their own conviction. He did expect now that some Reform would take place. God forbid that he should speak of a Reform so startling as Parliamentary Reform, though they would even tually be obliged to come to that, for the Country Gentlemen would find, that unless such a Reform did take place, Minis ters would not consent to any reduction of taxes. lie felt, therefore, no gratitude to Ministers; for they had afforded the Country no relief. Even if the Country had been relieved, even if the Country were now in a most flourishing condition, if its actual circumstances were to be reversed, still he would say that no gratitude was due to Ministers, for they had done no more than their duty. The Ministers ought to have considered the effect of their own measures on the currency. They ought, before the adoption of those measures, to have considered that their own salaries had been increased during a depreciated cur rency, and ought therefore now to be reduced in proportion— they ought to have considered the relative situation of those who had entered into debts and contracts during the depreciated currency. Bit they had acted in the dark, they had not taken due precautions, and had been totally unaware of those conse quences which had been so obvious to others. On the score of gratitude, therefore,_ lie thought the Country owed the Noble Lord nothing. The Noble Lord had taxed the Hon. Baronet with using inflammatory language. Now ha would ask the Noble Lord whether, after having reduced the country Gentle men to the situation they were in, when they could receive no rents, he expected them to pay their taxes ? If the Noble Lord could screw himself up to that opinion, then he (Sir F. B.) imagined that the Noble Lord would hear language still more inflammatory than any that he had already heard. " Mr. Secretary PEEL observed, that he had felt some sur prize at the language used by the Honourable Baronet respect ing the measure passed in 1819 to restore the currency of the Country to a proper standard. It was not the first time that the Hon. Baronet had characterized that measure in terms which. it did not deserve; but which, even if it did deserve, spoke strongly in condemnation of the Hon, Baronet himself. If the measure had been so unjust in principle, and if its evil conse-: quences had been so obvious, then he would tell the Hon. Bart.' that he had himself been guilty of a gross neglect of his public duty in not warning them against those consequences at the time: when themeasure had passed. The Hon. Bart. had called thq measure an iniquitous one ; if so, it had been iniquitous in 1819, as well as at the present moment. Policy might vary, but the.: iniquity of a measure remained the same in character. Thta Hon. Baronet might not have possessed the quality of forej, sight ; but if he thought at that time that the princ i p le of the:, measure was bad, then he was bound to tell them so, and it.! was not for him now to come down to the House and say, that; the consequences of the measure had been obvious, although they were not those which he had predicted. The measure itself had not been a Government measure. It had met with the decided approbation of most of the great authorities on the other side of the House. For himself, regretting, as he did, any aggravation of the distress of the country, which that measure might have produced, yet, judging from its gene. ral results, 'he was perfectly satisfied with the part he had taken in bringing it forward ; and heedeclared, that, under similar circumstances, viewing the country as standing on the precipice on which it then stood, he would now- adopt the same line of conduct. He was sorry that he had saul so much on the subject, as an lion. Gentleman opposite had given no, of people, suffering under such unequal distribu tion of the goods of fortune, will tacitly acquiesce in such evident injustice, and not raise their voices and their hands too, if called upon, to re sist it with effect ? In a very short time, when the evil becomes absolutely intolerable, will not every individual suffering under such oppres sion, be justified in saying to his tax gatherer when called upon, " this tax which you demand was imposed under a depreciated paper currency, and I cannot pay it in a metallic one. I could not if I would, 1 would not if I could, take your means of enforcement, for I must resist it to the utmost, and will do so till all my remaining slender means and all my physical powers are exhausted. It is not my wish or intention to re sist the laws of my country, but it is not in this instance in my power to obey them, nor is it in justice that they should be enforced against me." The legislature of a country may be termed om nipotent, but it cannot command impossibilities, nor can that of a free community be quietly per. mitted to enact unjust laws, and expect explicit obedience to them. What dropt from me re specting a Reform in Parliament may require explanation, and I most willingly and candidly give it. To the constitution► of Parliament, as ably and fairly explained by Mr. CANNING to his constituents at Liverpool, I gave my willing assent ; the virtual representation 9f all the im portant interests of a great community appeared to me to have been satisfactorily secured by it ; but when I see large and seemingly indifferent majorities voting away the best, and by far the most substantial interests of the nation, either without any consideration at all or in base and servile subservience to the will of l\iinisters, it would be a dereliction of duty, particularly in a County Member, not to change his tone and ex press his wishes for a more equal representation of the Landed Interests, which are now over powered by the holders of 800 millions of funded stock, in conjunction with the interested sup porters of men in power, too much wedded to their own erroneous system to listen to the plain dictates of common sense and common feeling on the part of those who oppose them. Having sug gested in the former part of what I have offered to the consideration of your Lordship and this honourable House, that the mischiefs complained of, though certainly in the highest degree grievous, are yet in my humble opinion susceptible of remedy, I feel it my duty, so far as my poor abilities extend, to state those remedies in ds concise a manner as the subject permits.— In the first place then, my Lord, I would repeal so much of Mr. PEEL's Bill as extends to the compulsory meeting of every demand in coin, and leave what remains of it as to bullion in ingots. Every man possessed of paper to the amount of 60 ounces of gold, thought would rather that it should be one or two hundred, should be entitled to carry that paper to the Bank and receive its value in ingots, at the rate of 31. 17s. 10-id per ounce, which lie might in stantly carry to the Mint and get coined into Sovereigns or half sovereigns at his pleasure, without further trouble or expense. This would bottom all your paper on a permanent founda tion, never to be shaken or even depreciated to the amount of a single shilling. Bank paper would be just as valid, and find its value at Paris, or Amsterdam, or Frankfort, or Leipsic, or in Poland or Russia, equally as in London ; nor could a traveller take with him a convenient viaticum to whatever country his steps were di rected. Paper thus circumstanced would be greatly preferable to that issued and current heretofore, as that was not exchangeable for gold, but simply rested on its own bottom, and the security of national credit, which, however substantial, was yet liable to depreciation, as we found at one time a guinea was equal to 27 or 28 shillings, and tended to raise prices artificially beyond their just appreciation, whereas this would only tend to raise them moderately and gradually by a greater influx of currency, which the Bank and all private bankers would be encouraged to issue, when the Bank of England knew it would be only called upon for ingots in certain large sums, and the private bankers only for Bank paper for their own issu able notes, which latter would be greatly in creased were the stamps on paper thus valuable taken off, which the revenue could very well afford. The Bank of England, to prevent the possibility of any run by the machinations of opulent and unprincipled capitalists, might i❑ common prudence retain two or three millions of gold in its coffers to meet all possible demands, though I do not believe any demand for a tenth or twentieth of that amount would be-ever called for, such would be the greater accommodation to individuals of paper thus bottomed on gold secu rity, to all the ingots or all the coin they could possess. So much, my Lord, for the currency, which I have reason to think would give general satisfaction through the nation. To this add the facility above spoken of to private bankers, by taking off the duties on their issuable paper, and the country at once, or at least in the course of a very short period, would find, at least in my humble opinion, all its pecuniary difficuities, so far as currency was in question, at an end. Now, my Lord, as to what regards the equally important corn question. Shut your ports effec tually against all importation, or put a duty on all imported grain anti provisions of whatever description, as shall give the British cultivator a decided advantage in his own markets over all competition ; let not the labourers of France, Germany, Poland, Russia, and other countries, take the: bread out of the Mouths of our own, nor under the specious pretext and high sound ing language of free trade ; deprive agriculture of f\J ►U110.310 PRICE SEVENPENCE 6 that protection to which it is equally, nay better, 'entitled than any other manufacture whatever, and indeed to all other manufactures united. If, however, you will not absolutely close the ports against all imported grain, another measure, to me apparently of the greatest consequence, I shall beg leave to suggest. Let your importa tions, whether subjected to duties or otherwise, be limited by Measure and not by Time, that is, not for so many weeks or months, but for such a specific and definite quantity, so that if 2 or 300,000 quarters of grain are thought necessary either to the subsistence of the kingdom, or the keeping down, in some measure, its prices, let a licence be limited, to that simple quantity, and not left open indiscriminately to any quantity that might be thrown in, otljerwise, instead of two or 300,000 you might have two, or three, or four millions introduced at once, to the utter deirtruction of your own agriculture for years to come. A nation burthened with a debt of eight hundred millions is necessarily in an artificial state, and can only be supported by artificial means.--Open your trade to all the world, upon what is termed a great statesman-like view of general commerce, in all its branches, and your country is at once ruined. Till all other nations are equally burthened with our own, they cannot be considered as upon any footing of equality. If they do not join in the,pay ment of the interest of our debt, their views and interests should not interfere to prevent our own payment of it.—To threaten us with the loss of their comparatively paltry trade, if we do 'not give them advantages incompatible with our owu interests, is mere nonsense, calculated to frighten us, as children with bugbears. The whole of their commerce is a mere nullity compared to our home-market, which, once exclusively secured, enables us to set all the world at defiance. With a monopoly of our own products, our country would soon become a perfect garden : Landlords would have their rents—tenants their reasonable profits—and labourers their easy and comfortable subsistence. These, my Lord, are the remedies I hinted at, and these I propose, with all due sub mission, to the more enlightened; but with a per fect conviction in my own mind, that, by the early and manly adoption of them, every distress would very shortly vanish and give way to peace, plenty, and full satisfaction to every rational and well principled individual in the country."—This, or to this effect, had been my answer to the Noble Marquess, and I greatly doubt whether his Lord ship's enlightened mind, and repeatedly pro fessed good wishes for the general prosperity of the country, had not induced him to adopt the proposed measures ; and thereby so far as was in his power substantiated the happiness of a king drm, at this moment labouring under the severest distress, and attributing that distress in a great measure to the system which he and his col leagues have adopted, certainly with the best intentions, but as certainly with the most per nicious effects ; for, restrict the currency of the country to the plain letter of Mr. Peel's Bill, as it now stands, and instead of shutting your ports against imported grain, subject the importation to such duties as shall render them a matter of finance, and rather turn the scale against, the British Agriculturist in his own markets, and the country is at once consigned to inevitable destruc. , tion. J. S. DOVOR BOATMEN. DOVOII, MARCH 14, 1316. RULES, ORDERS, and REGULATIONS, made by the COMMISSIONERS'of SALVAGE, acting under an Act of the 48th Geo. 3, c. 150, for the Regulation of BOAT- MEN, licensed under an Act of the 53'd (leo. '3, c. 140. It is ordained, That from and after the 25th day of March 1810, the following Rates or Prices may be demanded and re. , ceived by such licensed Boatmen that is to say ; Four Shillings for landing each grown person, and two shillings each child under ten years of age, from out of any packet or passage vessel at sea : Two Shillings and Sixpence for tarrying off each person from. the shore at Dovor, or out of Dovor harbour, to any packet O passage vessel at sea : One Shilling for carrying off or landing each person to or • from any packet or passage vessel, within the pier heads of the said harbour: One pound and One Shilling for landing or shipping each four-wheel carriage, and Ten Shillings and Sixpence tor land ing or shipping each two-wheel carriage, from or to any packet or passage vessel at sea : Ten Shillings •and Sixpence for landing or shipping each four-wheel carriage, and Five Shillings and Sixpence for -land ing or shipping each two-wheel carriage, from or to any packet or' passage' vessel, within the pier heads of the said harbour. 11. - That no charge shall be made by any such licensed boat: man, for the landing or shipping the baggage of and with any such passenger ; and the rates aforesaid shall in all cases in. elude the hire of the boat and crew : and if any such licensed boatman shall, directly or indirectly, ask, demand, •solicit, or receive, any greater rates or prices than are above expressed, or other reward or emolument whatsoever, such licensed boat man shall be suspended or disttissed from acting as a boat. man, at the discretion of the said Commissioners. fII. That if any such licensed boatman shall refuse or neglect to ship or land any passengers, baggage, or carriages, without just cause, to the satisfaction of the said Commissioners, or to pro vide a sufficient number of boats and people to land or ship such passengers, baggage, or carriages, with facility, and with. out any unnecessary delay, such boatman shall be suspended or dismissed from acting as a boatman, at the discretion of the said Commissioners. THOS. PAIN, Registrar. -NATIONAL BENEVOLENT [NSTITUTIONe—A Meeting of the Subscribers to the above institution was held at the freemasons' ravern on Saturday last. The Earl of DARNLEY in the Chair.—The business of the meeting was opened in the usual form by the Secretary, who was followed by the Noble Chairman in a speech which ccntained a judi cious appeal to the feelings of the auditors.—Mr. HE itvu, founder of the Institution, then addressed the Meeting. He mentioned several cases of distress which had come under the notice of the Committee, many of which had been neglected in consequence of the want of funds, and concluded by calling on the Meeting to subscribe liberally, and to endeavour to obtain the subscriptions of others.—Thanks were then voted to the Members of the Committee and Secretary.—Sir JoYis Doi LE concluded an animated speech by proposing the thanks of the Meeting to the Noble Chairman.—Thank.; were also voted to Mr. HERNE, after which the Meeting broke up. V I 1' oa oa