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NA VA L' N E ,Fl - ;"m the LONDON GAZETTE, April 12, rBu6. Admiralty-Office, .elpril if, I sob. Copy if a Letter from Captain. Jab': Davie, late Commander 9f His Majesty's Sloop Favourite, to William Marsden, Esq.. dated on board the Trio Cartel, Falmouth, April 8, 1806. SIR, I have the.honour to inclom a Copy of my Let ter.' to Capt. Maxwell, of His Majesty's Ship Arab, giving an account of the capture of a French Priva teer by His Majesty's late Sloop the Favourite un der my Command. I am, Sir, &c. JOHN DAVIE. His Majesty's Sloop Favour,ite, of the Sll{ s Tris Pongas, Dec. 28; 1805. I have the honour to acquaint' you, that, in obe dience to your orders of the 18th instant, I proceed ed in His Majesty's Sloop under my command to • the Islands des Loss, where 'I was informed that the Privateer you sent me in pursuit of was at anchor in the RiVer of Pongas. I immediately shaped a course for that place and, when within a few leagues of it, two Sail wee discovered, • which Mr.' Wilson (who volunteered .to be our Pilot) affirmed were Vessels which had beeh captured by her. • Conceiv ing it to be my duty, I' instantly made all sail, 'and gave Chace .to them. Owing 'to the shallowness of the water, and incorreEtness of thecharts, we did . not reach the entrance of the River till this after noon, when _we discovered the Privateer under sail, 'and working out. She allowed us to approach within half gun-shot, when she attempted to get away. I immediately commenced a fire from the 'bow guns, which soon induced her to shorten sail, and, to my surprise, haul athwart,' and rake us. I did not choose to alter the Ship's course, because it, would have prevented my getting so' near as I in tended ; but, when within our own length, I lulled ..up, and gave her our broadside. The Captain had the temerity to contintie'engaging us for twenty mi nutes, which cost him and ten others their lives, and twenty-five men badly wounded ; whilst lam happy to say, that Lieutenant Odium, .of the Royal African Corps (a Passenger), is the only person hurt on board of us, and he is slightly wounded. ' On taking possession she proved to be Le General Planchard • Privateer, mounting sixteen guns, and manned with one hundred and thirty French and Spaniards. I cannot do sufficient justice to the zeal and per severance displayed by Lieutenants Parsons and In gram, Mr. Soady, the Master, as well as all the 'other Officers, Seamen, and Marines, under my command, in a tedious chace of three days, obliged, principally, to sweep and tow the Ship, where we had never-more than three fathoms water ; and re gret very . sincerely that their bravery and good con du& was not direeled against a Vessel of greater force. I have the Honour to be, &c. JOHN DAVIE. Kcith Maxwell, Esq. Captain of His Majesty's Ship Arab, &c. &c. &c. FALMOUTIT, APrJL 11.—AT - rived His Majesty's Ship Plover, of Is guns, Capt. HAwcoci;., with the hew Frigate Lavinia, from Milford, under jury: masts, bound to Plymouth, ',to be fitted for service; the Elizabeth and Mary; Joii ES, from Liverpool; Windsor Castle Packet, SUTTON, with Mails, &c. from Jamaica, in .53 days : left lying at Port Royal His Majesty's Ships Superb, yie-Admiral Ducx- WORTH, CanoiniS, 80 guns, Rear-Admiral Louis, .Donegal, 80 g uns, Spencer and Atlas, 74 guns each, and several Frigates, with the French prizes L' Alex andre, 80 guns, Brave and Jupiter, 74 guns each, which were refitting for. the passage home. The Spanish Sloop.of War Ponzposa, of 16 guns, and 100 men, cnt out from a Spanish Port by . the Boats of His Majesty's Ship Le Franthise, haclarrived at Ja maica. On . the . 26th ult. in lat. 40. 67. long. 37.22. spoke the American Ship Romulus, of BOston,:frOM Baltimore, bound to Lisbon arid on the-Bth t• in lat. 49.11. long. 10. 5. spoke the American Ship Betsey, of . and from New-York, bouncl.to Amster dam. Sailed, the Lord Hotart Packet, ,MATEIER, for New-York and PLYMOLTB, APRIL 12.--Arrived yesterday morn ing the Cutter Thomas and azalea, Capt. STAN FORD, from St. Michael's, with fruit, for this lion, 16 days passage. On Monday last spoke the Druid Frigate, of 32 guns, cruizing in the Bay, from whom she received intelligence, that three days before she had fallen in with and chased a FrenCh Cutter Brig for several hours, but she outsailed her, and escaped : the same Brig had a day or two, previous to falling in with the Druid, engaged and beat off a Privateer belonging to Guernsey, after an anion of three hours, in which the Captain of the latter was killed . This intelligence was obtained from the Druid, who fell in with the Guernsey Privateer Subsequent to the action. Arrived the Prussian Gallia lunge Kornelis, Cap tain BRUNKER, from Morlaix, bound to ,Kmbdeu, laden with paper and honey, detained' by the Mou cheron Sloop . of War. : Arrived the Dr:fiance, of 74 guns, from Portsmouth. Sailed the Crescent Frigate, and Co/poys Sloop of War, on a Cruize. The Friends' Endeavour Brig, of this Port, Captain SLATER, was totally wrecked at St Michael's, on the 18th ult. in a heavy gale of wind, Two other iirigs were lost at the Same time. Arrived the French Brig_Cartv.4 Trio from the ~ ' C' . . _ Coast of Africa, with ioo'of the Crew of the vourile Sluop of Tar; fifty were landed at Fal month; The Favouri t e was captured on the. Coast of Africa hy . a French Squadron, said to consist of one,Triflif . the .. Line and some Frigates; the Prus . S ian Galliot Die Nene Geselschaft, MELLIW Master, from Embden, bound to Bourdeaux, laden with coals, detained by the Nimrod Sloop of War ;- the UnionyTREGAIITHEN, from ,Scilly,; with sugar, '& - c. part of the cargo of the Governor ;Mine, wrecked there ; the Richard, SMITH, from Gibi l altar, for Portsmouth, and the Hawhesbury, WATSON, from Malta and Gibraltar, bound to London : these Ves sels came last from Falmouth. Arrived the Liberty Sloop of War from Ports mouth, and . is since sailed on' a Cruize; also: the Reba Gun-brig, from a Cruize, W:th the Prussian Galliot Friede„ laden with fruit, from Li i sbon, bound to Altona, which she detained in the Channel; Sailed the John and Charlotte, ROBSON, and the Caledonian, .PoAd, for Quebec; the American Ships Betsey, JONES, for Africa, and Dragon, BEACON, for Cortuma. PORTSMOiIT,H, APRIL 13.—The Daring Gun-brig, Lieutenant HATES, has detained and sent into this Port the Swedish Galliot Josephine, from Bourdeaux, bound to Altona, laden with brandy. The Royal William has detained and sent into this Port the Schwan, from Lisbon, bound to Ham burgh, 'laden with sugar and hides. The De fender Gun-brig has*_ detained and. sent in here the' DeJonge Barende, from Bourdeaux, bound to Emb den, laden with wine, and the Three Brothers, froth Easterice, bound to Cherburgh, laden with deals. And the Jamaica Frigate has detained and sent in here the AlgeM a Belang Galliot,,from Lisbon, with fruit, bound to .Embden. The Falcon Cutter has also detained and sent here .the Sea Nymph Brig, and the Vrow Antoinette Galliot, both from St. Ihden with salt. Sailed the Cheerly Gun-brig, Lieut. MoNTRt: soR, with a_ Convoy' of. Transports fOr Guernsey and Jersey. • • .Capt. GossEr..tx is appointed to the Audacious, Capt, J. A. WOOD to the Latona, Capt. R. PIERCY to the Belette, and Capt. RAINS to the Sea Fencibles at Ramsgate. . .. The Chance hired. Cutter, Capt. CHums,"was yes terday paid off, and the , Crew turned over to the Royal *Yuan!. ;, HARWICH, APRIL 1.-Tile last of th Gotten , burgh Mails due arrived 'ye s t er d a y, by ie Lady .' Frances Packet, Capt. F L YN . 1 The outward-bound M a ils o f th e Bth. and loth irist. for Ham6ro', Bremen, and Gottenburgh, are yet detained here by contrary winds. UpWards of one hundred Sail of Ships, bound to the Northward, are prevented from proceeding to the ports of their destination by the prevailing North, east wind, attended with snow. , About twenty-seven Ships, under the Prussian flag, are detained at this port in consequence of the late Order in Council. Remain the 2h-ea, Hunter, and Iris R6renue Cruizers. DEAL, APRIL 13. —Yesterday afternoon the Jackal Gun-brig, I,ieut. STEWART, arrived in the Downs with two detained Ve'ssels : the Jaekall sail- . ed again on a Cruize ; algo the Manly Gun-brig. Arrived the Kite and Diligence Sloops of War, Furry Bomb, Constant, Griper, and several other Gud , brigs, from a Cruize, and remain in the Downs with the rest ,of the Ships as per last. .DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MOICIEY. Tto the Officers and Crews of His Majesty's Ships Magna nithe,- Pluto, Meteor, Melpomene, Locust, and Nancy, fbr the cuptureof the 'Postillion, at the Red Lion, Portsmouth, on the Isth inst. and every Monday and Thursday for three years to come, at the same pia To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Gun-brig Archer, fur the re-capture of the Aurora, on the z3d Feb. 50.,, their respektive share of the salvage thereof, on hoard, • on her arrival in the Downs, and every Wednesday and Thursday after for three months to come., T.) the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Sloop. Hawke, their proportion of the Schooner Betsey and her cargo, - captured 18th March, Mar, at Win. Bonnar's Office, Derby -street, Westminster, on Wednesdays and Saturdays for three years to come. To the Officers and Companies of His Majesty's Sloop Legere, for the capturz of I.a l'etite Yiaoire and L'Adif, French Privateers, on the 16th. 'November, 1790. and Bth January, iSoc, and on board the Pelican at the taking of the latter; Head-mon:y on the 1701 inst: at Hugh Stanger's, No. 13, \Clement's Inn, and every Monday and Thursday for three years. _ • To the Officers anti Company of .iiis Majesty's Sloop' Zephyr, for the capture of the Frederick and Floridentia, on the 7th Odober, 1304,, and to those entitled to sharelor the tobacco seized on boarff the Fortune Smuggler, on the 6th May, tBos, their proportions of the said caprttre and seizure, at No. 12, Upper Thames -street, on the 17th inst. and every day for three months to come. 'Co the Officers and Company of His M a j es ty' s G un- b r i g Pim*, who -were alually on board at the re-capture of 'the Frau Anna, on the 7th" Dec. !gas, their portions of the salvage ther‘ol, on her arrival in the Downs, at No. 9, New Broad-street, every Wednesday and ThurAay, between ele ven and three, and for three months to The Atalanta Brig lately looked' into Rochefort, and found. there one 3-decker,.and five 2-deckers, with . sivlarge'Fragates, apparently ready for sea.— The 'Squadron watching them, under Adtniral TrioßimouGli, consisted of the Prince of Miles, of 98 . guns, Malta, 84, • Achille, Conqueror, and another, of 74 ; Pallas, Iris, Hazard, Atalanta, and Courier ; acd, we. understand, is td be reinforced by two Ships of the Line from flit Chanual Fie , faLivol r_fPf7,- _ . LA Act, vsl Alt - dir.Exnuimn, MA ICcir 30.- 7 Tbrbc, • Brigades:. of th l o Swedi:-.11 Army are colleaed at Latio - e, and are about to march lt -Pomerania in two Columns. His Ms,j sly the King of Liv' , eden commands the , first Odidinn iii v,•rsOn ;, the se .cond is commanded by Licutemnt-General Baron ARMFIMDT., Befire - Nis Majesty left Ratzenburgh, I:e.gave the Inhabitants the most positive as surances of hi s firm attaclime,it to leis Alliance with the King of Great Britain, and strongly recommended their con tinuance in the same sentiments. , PARIS, APRIL 3.--71‘.1.6RDEA1 ELIAs, of B6tlP deaux; has received a letter:ft-6in the Ministerfor Foreign Affairs, dated the toth tilt. statibg ; he had applied to the Court of aiony . continue the tait on Jews, with respea to peiions of that pe'rsuasitill who are natives of France, .and that he trusted his application w o uld be suc cessful.' • HAGUE, At'RIL G.—Their High Mightinesses the RepresentatiVes of . the -Batavian Republic met yes terday and the day beide. Their deliberations will be continued until Tuesday next.' The Batavian Company of kiore . Artillery ar rived here this day from Germany. . The Prench General I.l , llcnnux has been here some, days from Utrecht.' The three Battalions of the Bth Regiment of- In-, Pantry arrived here the day beforb yeSterday, and are quartered upon the inhabitants. AMSTERDAM, APRIL I.—Our Funds still con• tinue declining—to-day they fell again. According to all accounts, it.seems that France has made Proposals of Peace to England, but nothing further is known. The Briti4b Cabinet have held two. Councils upon the subje6t of these Proposals ) which Were made by M. TA LLEYRAND to FOX; and also through Baron JAdOBI, the Prossian Minister.—Report also states, that an English AM bassador is on his way to Paris ; - but this wants con firmation. The whole sum, required for our Supplies for the present year amounts to 77,285,84.5 guilders. WESEL, APRIL s.—Against the occupation of Essen, Elton, and Werden by the - .French, the Prussian Commissary has not only protested, but his ExCellency Lieutenant-General BLUCH ER has also ordered a considerable number of Troops to march for the purpose. of again occupying these Countries. The Grenadier Battalion of Hallmon, for instance, Marched into Essen, after having,or, dered the. French, Troops to evacuate that place and neighbourhood. The latter, however, had re, ceived orders not to yield the point ; so that the Troops of both Countries possess the place at the same time.. This contusion will happen every where else, tinles - s the two .Courts come to a de cision on the subjed. The French Troops are every where in motion' fur the•pcirpow of entirely leaving Germany. A young woman who had been committed to Pri son in Rothesay, on suspicion of having murdered the child -found at the head . of the Old Harbour there ; effe&ed her escape a few days since, owing to the folloWing circumstance :—Her brother was :permitted to visit her fre9uently in the Gaol, and on that day they exchanged clothes. The Jailor came in about' mid-day, and saw, as he thought, the girl lying on the bed, and the brother sitting on a chair. The supposed brother shortly there after went out, and the 'mistake was not discovered till next day, The Magistrates have offered A re ward flir the girl's apprehensiOn. William Tr9aernan, alias Alexander lanes, the Lolley Lounging Swindler, lately convicted at the Maidstone Assizes of fbrgery, NS' a 4 executed on Thursday, at Penenden :Heath., along with three' other culprits. He behaved with great penitence, and acknowledgel the justness of his sentence. At the Bristol Assizes, which commenced. last Wednesday before Sir V. •Gints; the Recorder; George Richardson was capitally convi&ed of horse stealing. Henry Lisle was coovieted of a gross as sault on n girl only ten years old, sentenced to two year's imprisonment, to be fined.. I 01. and stand in the pillOry. He had-been tried capitally for this of fence at the for Mer Assizes, but escaped,. On Tuesday se'nnight the body of George Stott, blacksmith, many years in theemployment of Wm. Peareth, Esq, at Birtley, was found in an old coal pit, in the ground of Mr. Warwiek. He went from his own house at Birtley, to Psirtobella, on Sunday the 23d of March, and is supposed,,on his return; to have missed his road, and mistalcen the railing about the pit for a stile which was in the same field. Oh Tuesday evening, as Mrs. 'Elizabeth Gibbon, of Cleves Cross, was returning home, she unfortu , nately fell down a steep clang, and was t killed on the spot. A Coroner's Inquest sat on the body the next rnorninoVerdiet, Aceickfital Death:, , Comic XC - I/ANGE, .APRIL 14. 7 --The Market .to day is very thinly supplied with all kinds of Graih 'heat has advanced toll 12s; per quarter, and some very, fine exceeds the quotation ; Barley and Malt 2s. higher.; Beans and Pease are each dearer ; having so few Oats, this trade is 3s. and 4s. higher; Flour goes off readily, at the advance of ss. per sack. Wheat 64s a 78s a 86s od 140411 S - 375 a 43s od Fine ditto Etts a 92c or; f Tick Beans 3os a 36s od Rye - -38 s a 41s cd i flats 2SS a 28s a 321 od Barley - 3ts's a 3ss ad' Poland ditto 33s a. 355 cd Malt . 64.; a 7-. s cd Raise Seed - - 4 01 - 43 1 White Pease 36s a 43s oil Fine Flour 7oS . a 755 od Grey ditto 33s a 37s od Seconds • - 6 s a'7os ad' SMITHFIELD MARKET, APRIL X 4. This day's market had a good supply of prime Beasts, and.the show of Cattle in other respeists was abundant. Beef, Mutton, and Veal sold at advanced prices ; Pork and Lam!) did, not support last prices, and the trade inigeneral Was somewhat brisk. The business in the Haymarket was ,rather lively ;' Hay and clover continue at last price Straw has lallen in pricc.-The under-mentioned prices and numbers is a correst statement To' . sink the Offal per stone of 81b. Beef ss. wt. to Ss sod.--Mutton ss.'od. to 6s. qd.—Veal 7s. od. to US. od.-I,arlib 75. to 7s. 6d.—York ss. tod. to 6s. 6d. Peasts 2436.—Sheep and Lambs t2,76o.—Calves 104. — Pigs 314. slorrnrzELn HAYMARKET. flap ;t. Os. to 41. 15s.—Clover Sty os. tv St. I. 16i, to 31; es, _ =' MT; INCOME TAX - : . ibitraa of the Bill fy r irriposinK Act.litilon3l. Ditties 4, Pi c t. Ars arising from Property, Prof:esions, Trades, and Offices: in Great . Britain ,„ . ,! • .- • :-; -•, This Bill, which passed throUgh atomtnittee, tire form-a, previous to the recess, for the purpose of h'ess-: ing the blanks filled up, in order to its re-commitmen pn afuture day, is now printed, and in the hants Qt . the Members. The Aft is so, voluminous, it would be ireyoesible; if it were not unnecessary, for us to follow it through all its parts. In givitig a summary, however, of its leading enadtritents, we shell partictt lady attend to those parts of the detail which contaitk an estential departure from the principles and pre, visions of the former AE s. The Bill enads, aftef , the sth day of April, 1806, there shed be charged, raised, levied, colleaed, and paid, dur ing a time to be limited; on the annual value and amount of profits •of all property, professions, triodes, and offices, after the rate of two shillings fon every twenty sliillings of such annual value or- amount; and a correspondent increase iu the annual wale of all property, in EngL:nd, Wales,and .lerwick-upon- Tweed, or in Scenlaa r6peetively. The ACI - then goes on to provide for the assessing and levying such Duties in England and Scotland respeCtively„ under the Regulations of the Ads of 43d of His Majesty, and of subsequent -ACts. Next follow the various provisions for the aPpointment ofCommissioners ana other Officers to carry this•Ad into execution. His Majesty under, his sign manual, or the Lord High Treasurer by warrant under his hand and seal, or the COmmissioners Of His Majesty's Treasury, or any three, or - more of them, by warrant, under their haeds'and seals, are.respeelively authorized to appoint such Special Commissioners for the special purposes of this Aa, as they respectively shall think expedient. The Bill then goes on to enact, that temporary absentees shall be charged as residents; and also temporary residents, aft er s i x months resi dence ; as also, that persons claiming exemptions for temporary residence shall becharged with the duties imposed by this A&, if they shall return to Great Britain before the sth day of April next after such cleith made. The next point touched upon; respeClS the notice to he given by the'AsSessors for the deli very of Lists by the different residents; and a failure to give in such Lists after noticels subjeded to a penalty of twenty. pounds. The Assessors must ' verify on - oath to the CoMmissioners the service of the notice, under a Penalty Of twenty .pounds-- Houses under the annual value of ten pounds are to be : charged on the landlords. Tythes may be charged on the occupiers of Ile if : the Commissioners. thiik fit. The duties on the houses occupied by Foreign Ministers to be char g ed on the landlords tit persons immediately entitled to the rent.. Occu , piers - may recover from, landlords, and landlords from other persons having interest at the like rate. Mortgages'-in possession 'are liable to the duty. the owner should die, his' heirk, executors, or as s • Signs, are to be reSpcm,ible for all subsequent in stalMents after assessment of the year. Dedue• tions are to be allowed' for tenths paid by eccle sieStical persons ; also for procurations and synodals, for. the repairs of Chencels, e ccir the land tax imposed in ereoti, where not redeemed, and for any public • rates for drainage or emeankment. Nurseries and gardens shall be aarged on the, profits of •the pre tedieg year. Money payments. paid by landlord on account- of the : oecupies, teebe deduded from the lent ; and those by theoceupier on account of the /andiordete be 'added'to tite)Tnt. • The rent to be estimated accoeding to the price of.corn or grain; and the preduce. The duty is not to extend to the Stock'or Dividends of any Friendly Society; nor to 'the .Stock of any Ghritable lnstitutions, nor to Funds in the name of the Commissioners Of the Na tional-Debt, nor to Steck in the name of the Trea• sury, not to . any Dividends, Annuities, or Shares, [(mall* belonging to any person not' being a sub je& of His Majesty, and not being resident in Great, Britain, provided such property shall be duly claimed' and ascertained. All claims to the. exemptions from the said Duties; ; or Annuities : payable' ont of the Revenue of Great Britain, shall be Made. to the Special Commissioners, according to the following rules : —First, Every such claim shall be made .in writing in such form as the Special CettuniSsioners shall direct, and the said Corn inissioners shall cause the same to be verified on the atfidavjt Of such person or persons as they shall think necessary. 2dly, When the said Commissioners shell have allowed such exemptions, they shall certify the seine to the person or corporation entrusted with the payment 'of such dividends, &c. or to the Bank of England, in case the whole of .said Duties s h ou ld be paid into it, and the certificates of the said Corn naissioners shall be sufficient authority for the pay- , ment or re-payment thereof. 3dly, 'Whenever such Stuck shall be transferred, the exemption shall cease; but not, as to such part of said Stock as may not be so transferred, And any person pretending that, Stock is the property ef tbreigners, for the purpose Of defrauding the 11e eenue, - shelt:l'M-kit the sum cif soul. ,to His Majesty, and also pay treble the duty -to be charged' on such annuities or shares, at , the rate before prescribed. ' - The Aid then specifies the manner in which the amount of the Tax-is ,to be estimated on the profits of-trade, professions, and vocations, under six dis tin& heads or cases, each- atteded by a variety : of particular rules, /which it would be endless ;o afterwards proceeds to dire& how the provisions are to apply to persons having Income in different, districts, or deriving : Income irons Ireland, or other Territories subje& to His Majesty, The Bill next „ details the. process on an appeal, and the duties of the InspeCtots as conneded therewith. The Com missioners may confirm or alter. the assessment or schedule, and put questions, in writing, to the par ties, touching such assessment, and receive answers thereto, either -viva mice or in writing, as well, as call, upon the parties to : : verity their answers upon oath. They may also examine Witnesses upon oaths,— When an assessment is increased by the Commis sioners; they may chatg,e the penalty, not exceeding double the amount. But persons neglecting to de liver the schedules, or to attend the summons of the commissioners, to be liable, to a' penalty of twenty pounds, and double the amount of the duty. Sche dules, however, may be amended, or given in after default, and no penalty incurred, provided it sha!l be made'out that no fraud w. s intended. The Bill next regulates the- manner in which the Commissioners themselves are to beiassessed, as alio the transmission of dUplicates of tke entries of ar.s sz- .~->'w ~: I