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400,000!, perann. The remain
der, he was forty to fay, must be
furnilhed by increased taxation.
Mr, Pitt then proposed taxes on
Spirits, Bricks, and Tiles, Paper,
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rr^HE House in committee, on
I the ways and means, Mr.
Pitt laid before the Committee
the expeded National Expendi
ture. Force, Supplies, and Defici
cnces, for 1794.
He said were greatly increased—■
The seamen voted were 85000;
76000 of which were adually
muttered, and between 50 and
60000 of whom were raised the
last year—a force unprecedented
in the second year of a war. The
total expence of the Navy Eftab
lifiimentfor 1794, he said would
be 5,525,000!.
These immense numbers, con
stituted, he said, a force refpe&a
ble and vigorous beyond any for
mer period, amounting to at least
250,000 men—the entire expence
of which, as above stated, would
be 13,210,000!.
Including new fencible regi
ments, national militia, and regu
lar troops, would be near 140,000
men, besides between 30, and
40000 foreign troops in British
pay. Total expence 6,340,000!.
effect, would produce 8,947,000!.
The deficiency to be provided for,
would be Ten Millions, Nine
Hundred and Ninety, Three thou
sand Pounds- Which he laid he
could raise by Loan of five gen
tlemen of adequate refponfibilhy.
[The loan has since been made.]
NEW TAXES.
To raise the interest of the a
bove sums, and to provide for the
deficiency occasioned by the re
peal of the glove duties, and taxes
upon Births and Burials, would
require a sum of upwards of 900,
0001. but a great part of which,
Mr, Pitt said he was happy to
(late, would be answered by the
disposable surplus of certain taxes,
the nature of which he detailed,
and stated the amount to fee about
And to make good deficiences
of the last year, together with a
continuation of the sums for redu
cing the National Debt, and to
embrace any favourable exigence
which might arise, he stated in va-
rious sums, which added to the a
boveettimates, would codftitute a
sum of about 19,940,000!.
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BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS.
He stated would be 1,345,000!.
For the present year, already in
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—After pointingout the necefib
ty forthefe supplies, he moved the
usual resolutions for the loan. On
the question being put,
Mr. Fox, thanked Mr. Pitt for
the candour and perspicuity with
which he had ttated the financial
concerns of the nation, and applau
ded for the decided and manly
manner in which he proposed to
meet the necessary expences. He
however could not avoid faying,
that the proposed taxes would be
severely felt by the public, and the
Attornies would find means to
make their unfortunate clients pay
the taximpofed on them.
The Resolutions were agreed to.
The rttb Aprils arrived at Boston,
the Jhip Minerva^ Capt. Scott,
in 50 days from London.—Capt.
Scott brought London papers to
the 7th of Marcb* from which it
appears that in the „
HOUSE of COMMONS,
MARCH 6,
The Chancellor of the Exche
quer, proposed an increase of the
internal defence of the country—
and moved “ That leave be given
to bring in a bill for augmenting
the Militna.”
After several bad/poke upon the
fubjeU—
Mr. Fox arose and in a lengthy
speech among others .made the
following observations
“We are called upon at this
moment to make exertions more
extraordinary than were conceived
to be neceflary during the most ah
arming period of the last war.”—
“OurMinifters have told us, in a
triumphant tone of voice, that the
last campaign had been a very fuc
cefsful one, yet that after all this
advantage in our favor we should
at this moment be under the ne*
cellity of making greater provision
Colonel Tarleton, Mr. East, Mr.
Hawthorne, and several other
Members opposed the motion, as
impolitic, unwise, and unjuff in
the extreme; it was however, sup
ported by Mr. Pitt, Mr. White
bread, and Mr. Smith *, and on a
division there appeared, for it 63
—against it 40—majority 23. -
Mr. Wilberforce, after an ani
mated speech moved for leave to
bring in a bill, “to abolifli the
Slave Trade, as far as related to
the supply of foreign territories
with slaves.”
The American Trade Bill was
read a fir ft time, and ordered to
be read a second time.
TUESDAY, May 6, 1794.
SLAVE TRADE.
for our internal fafety, than in the
year 1798 $ at which time there
was a rumour of an invation.’*—
“ It was true also too, and that was
not very flattering to the pride of
England, that with all the luperi
ority of which we boasted at sea,
the French were entirely matters
of the channel for several days
since the commencement oi this
war.”
Mr. Whitbread clofeda lengthy
and majkrlyJpeecb at follows:
•‘Would to God his Majesty
had been ad d fed to attend to the
situation of Louis XVI th. of
France, at the time the requisition
was made by the monarch ! He
really believed, that affairs at that
time were so fnuated, that the lives
of those unfortunate Sovereigns
might have been saved, and Eu
rope might have been at peace at
this hour: this, said he, he be
lieved in his conscience. In all
the views of our situation at pref*
ent, he saw much danger from the
combination in which we were
now engaged: the only thing re
maining for him would be to sug
gest to the house for theppreset,n t,
what appeared to be the best ad
vice they could give to his Majes
ty. This in substance, was to ex
tricate himfelf as soon as pofiible
from the whole of the combina
tion in the present war.”- >■-
He concluded with observing,
“That it was very generally be
lieved the King of Pruflia had de
manded of this country a subsidy
of seven or eight thousand pounds
as the price of continuing the war.”
He then moved, “That an
humble Address be presented to
His Majesty, (among other things,)
most humbly and earnestly to im
plore His Majesty to confider of
such meafpres as to his royal wis
dom shall seem adapted to extri
cate himfelf from engagements
which oppose difficulties to His
Majesty’s concluding a separate
Peace with France.”
The people of Ireland fay, that
Administration has taken the most
effectual means to avert the wrath
of Heaven, if it has been induced
by exceflive luxury—They are
made to pray by proclamation, to
faft by necefiity, and to go bare
foot by Alt of Parliament!
Ten Ships, which left Isle de
France under the escort of two
frigates, are arrived in this har
hour. Their cargo is estimated
at upwards of 3,000,000!. One
ofthofe (hips, coming from Bengal,
is laded with fait-petre, ready pre
pared. The rest of the Ibips
brought cotton, muftin, coffee,
pepper, and indigo. They brought
us, too, certain intelligence refpeft
ingour Situation in the East-Indies.
PORT L’ORIENT, tiß. 13.
LONDON, March 6.
Letter from Lacofte and Baudot ;
representatives of the people with
the army of the Rhine and the
Moselle, dated Strafburgh^ Janu
ary
€< VY 7E have been at Spires, ci*
W tizen colleagues, as wf
announced in our last. The ene
my fly with such rapidity, that iris
impoflible to overtake them ; but
if the men escaped, their maga
zines remain. The cannons of
Spires have left upwards of 100,
000 pitchers of wine in their cel
lars and the granery was flocked
in adequate proportion. The bitti
op’s house was full of forage, bran
dy and all kinds of eatables. The
most speedy measures are taken to
convey all these provifionsto Lan
dau* The metals which served to
decorate or to compose the monu*
ments of the cathedroJ, were also
carried off, the faints di (lodged,
6000 wax tapers unpacked, some
ciborios and other instruments of
folly melted down, and the bells
broke, all to the greatest glory of
the republic.
The public chests of the city
have been delivered up to the pay
matter general ; but they have
been visited so often, that there
hardly remains any thing in them*
The custom-house, full of all kinds
of merchandize, deposited, as it
were, in a place of fafety, by the
French and foreign aristocrats.
The prize, worth one million, shall
turn to the profit of the defenders
of their country. The rich inhab
itants of the palatinate have emi
grated : we treat them like the
worthless Frenchmen, whose ex
ample they have imitated. Our
troops have advanced as far as
Neuftadt and Frakenthab
“The enemy abandoned, at
Leifmerfheim, thirtythoufandcwt.
of forage) at Germerfheim, seven
ty tons of flour, 6000 sacks of
oats, and 1000 sacks of dried
vegetables; at Merkftall, twelve
hundred sacks of of oats; at Weif
fembourg, fifteen thousand muf
quets, a great number of tick and
dying wounded, whom they inhu
manly deprived of the small
portion of the provisions they had
distributed among them,to support
for a few moments their feeble exig
ence) at Lauterbourg, all kinds of
am mu nit ion,a great numberof muf*
quets,an immenle magazine of gun
powder, and thirty thousand blank
ets; under theglacisof Fort Louis,
sixty waggons, with their horses
before them* The number of
mufquets picked up in ail parts,
amount to near thirty thousand.
“We do not reckon, in the enu
meration of the prizes, the small
magazines of private persons, which
add however to the great mass.
Our chief attention is now turned
National convention, jan. 8.
FRANCE.
[Number 44.