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instinct; day Ised reuteedeo to argue on statements
alleged .so be Contpred in his plan, which had no
Place in 4- One Right Hop. Gentleman, had raid,
thit dee eliodld now determine on the partictfar
War Taxes which should be continued in time
of Peace, if it shoeld be necessary to continue any.
Was this a proper time T. decide on scab a master?'
Were not the articles of taxation coritinnally
Mating in price and ennsumprinr ? and might tat
the taxes most prOdUalST: a' this day, be in a few
years incapable of prochicin.{ any , from the
eieiseituJes of all human He ri•colleded
well, that at the first an 'nosel of the War Tastes, '
the Right Hon. Gentleman had deprecated the idea
of their ever being produfliee in time of War ; now
he maintained the impo hility of their ever be-
coming ro i: Peace; he, however, as a well-wisher
•t his country, hoped that he might be equally pre -
prietic in the present instance, as in the former. As
to what had been observed of the danger arising
from the German linen interfering in the colonial
markets with ours, in consequence of the tax on
shipping, he was not apprehensive of much
competition from Silesia, wh re na,:t of their I.nen
was manufaeluied, as, tag pt the Centlemtu could
drive Rinaparte out of that territory, he hardly
'opposed the occupations of War, and keYi"lf of
C inserters, would give them much oppertunil
for cult:eating the am; of pace, or interfering with
our maeufaeures. He then proceeded to compass
his plan with those proposed by the opposers of the
Re;oluthins ; he observed one grand distinelion be-
tween them was, that his alone proposed an increase
of the Sinking Fund, while theirs proceeded im-
rnedi tuly to seize on that sacred treasure, and then
they !prim:mended themselvew tnr the simplicity of
their ra- de. This put him in mind of the Quack
Semi) 1) dor, who proposed in the play, thaw,
most tffedually and simply the disordeis incidei t
to that its lul arum di; and this simple acre at last
• appeared to be cutting th • poor createrre. .!float,
Certainly he must resign the palm to Geri&nien,
, who would thus siniply settle the matter. by seiz-
ing on the wh- le Sinking Fond, to facilitate Their
system of taxation. He coiicluJed with obserseng,
that their systems promised at the end of the war
an amazing increase of debt, without any increase
of Sinking Fund, to discharge that debt. This
would be produlive of the worst ,Lifts on the
credit of the nerirn, as th proportion of the
• S,nking Fond to the Stock wis always the great
source of encouragement to those who 'had money
v sted in these Mods.
' Mr. 140-SE shortly explained.
L td CASTLEREAGH, in • speech of consi-
derable length, which our limits present us from tw-
tailing, took a general enmparative view of 'tbe se-
veral plans which had been suggest •d, (irn which
he co tended, th it the plan of the Noble Lord op-
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posite ts...au malty Petty) was by much the MO!:
extray..gart, and his own the most economical:
Mr. figspiso24, after a length of general ob-
servation, begg. d leave to ask, in what way the
Neble Lord Alietty) had reconciled the proposed
plan with the Alts of Parliament existing upon this
babied
VANSIT FART replied, tbsit, upon a pro-
per examination of the plai., it woulu be found per-
teetly consistent with the Ails of Parliament !elat-
ing to the Sinking 1.11:47, and it would be further
found,that in no way whatever could the Stockholder
be injeszed by this measure.
Mr. 'JOHNSTONE shortly explained.
Mr. CANNING said, he could not at all re-
concile the plan of the Noble Lord to the lutes of
consistency. He declared his most decided phjec-
lion to the whole principle of the measure ;*.buta:
that late hour (two o'clock) he thnuld nor neseas•
upon the time of the Host.e in offering easy. ttbserv.
tions upon it; but, as many opportunities would
occur in the course of the proceedings upon the
plan, he should reserve himself for a more convenient
season.
The question was then loudly called fur, and the
• Resolutions read a second time, agreed to. ant or-
dered to be taken into further consideration to-
morrow (this day)
Mr. Vansittart brought up the Bill for granting
bounties upon double refined Sugar, which was
read a first time, and ordered to be read a second
time to morrow, (.lus Jay).
Mr. H sbliouse brought up the Report of the
Committee of Ways and Means, !elating to the ad
ditional duty or 2s. 6.1 per gallon upon all Foreign
Brandy. etc inspinted, &c. Cho Resoletio s :sere
read 44 .Lcreed to. and leave given to brat.; in a
Bill pui anent thereto.
Mr. Hobheuse brought up the Report of the
Committee tip in the German Yarn Bill ; the Reto-
hitions were lead and ageed to, and the Bill oreered
to be read a third time to-morrhw (this day).
Upon Motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, the
Howe wept into Committee upon the Irish Sugar
l)rawh irk bill ; the several Resolutions were r ATI
and agreed to, and the Report ordered to be re-
ceived ttemoirow (this day).
The Sierra Leone Company Bill was also com-
mitted, and a Resolution proposed by Mr. RO-
BERT THORNTON, to prevent the Imperil:inn
II Slaves into that Settlement, WAS brought up
agreed to, and the Report ordered to be :mired
on Thursday next.
The (louse went into Committee for the further
ennsideratioa of the Turkey Tobacco Importation

Some Amendments, proposed by Mr. VA NSI r-
TA Rr, were read and agreed to, and the B II or-
dered to be engrossed anti read a third time to-mor-
row (this day).
The other Orders of the Day were then dispostd
4, and at HALF PAST TWO O'CLOCK the
House adjourned.

••• The length of out Pailtaasdiedst Report °Nigel us to
defer, uusg, oomorrow, our tbnovratione uiren au article,
entitled "Ti- Homology Demon," which appeared to
Glint it its Ursette, slum Tae Cowrie, of yestrrdar.

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lON DON,
FRIDAY, FauvAity 420.

The Committee an the Norfolk Petition. Tester-
dai. decided that Mr. WinDII•34 and Mr. T. W.

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. ascertained that this decision renderi these
Gc.tlemen ineligible for 64 county. A new
Writ. however. was moved last night fur the town
of Derby. in the room of Mr. EDWARD (>164 VIM,
we understand, will stand for Norfolk, and be
succeeded in Derby by Mr. T. W. Cone. hir.
Wistnu h, we believe, returned for New Rom-
nty. Sir iseos Atiter, Mr. Haire, and Mr.
Wr Imams, a relative of the late Wrntrer, are men-
tioned as Candidates for the vacant representation
of Norfolk.

Mr. Su rain roe, last night, is the linase of Cont.
!Awls. gave notice of a Motion this day, rola. v- to
the bdilloring for a Convnittee to try the alerts of
the ‘V•stntiaster Eledion, wh:ch stands for the

Mr. WVtsirascao, last nee% submitted to the
House of Commons his New System fin the Support
of the Poor.
It is a hide I:aorta:rale, that some woo' .he
partizans of Sir' Hone Port .0 were not :p-
-rised in time of his return to England. Had
they been so lucky, they would certainly have
decreed him, not an ovation, but a triumph. They
would not have announced merely that he was at
slie Admiralty on Wednesday, end was to take his
e.,t in the House of Commons yesterday, hut they
would have ordered a procession from Mt. At.te-
AnUaa
Davisoles, in St. James's-squire, to the
Bank of Englaod, in which their patrrn and
frier.d should .receive the cheers and congratua
lations s.f the populace of Undoes. The fol•
towing fulsome flattery, in an Evening Print rf
yeretday, fully jut ifies this observatioo : "We
are hap, y," says George Ruse's Curette, " to hem
that our little army has bcen greatly benefited by
the capture of Maldonado. Sir Hone was thereby
enabled to mount the cavairy, and provide the ne-
cessary arpllery ; and ra.ist •of the private letters
agree in stating, that on the arrival of the MO °rem-
anent!, Buenos Ayres will again fall an eahy ce. qnest
ter the Stant% arms. This opinion. is entitle,: to she
more rehired, from its beard tuby won oy bte
11. YUrNA u. W:tu, in a heater to a kite,. J. thus ens
presses itim,elt :•—• I ament the loss of any east of
toe good opinion of the air-e. who, sic weii as
my I hare fothfuny sr. v,d, and whose
late e.ts weic alwltys near-st .7:. am, Kw.
verthelcss, still pettedly saesfic.:. .0 • a tae.
purary 111.1pflUall 111 comae. retal taken
place by the re-eaposne tat Setae@ Ayres...P.a.
We should be &ad to know wtat is nreant by this
passage ? Doeh it allude to the saute= at (sty under
Ueneral Beeitraao, now prisoners of war, in the
hands of the Spaniarsts ? It iair iurs too much of
tae humours of Sir Yobs to make his bro-
ther Knight boast of mounting tub cavalry, and pri
vtdiag tile necesliary artinety for t.e two or three
JOL:11 of men, who art waiting tor reintorcemeats
st islaidonade. tined,' ridiculous is toe .bah., tbaz
•• datum Ayres will again tali an tab, co. qu-st,
and test ad, a toetperery otspeuston of cu.neter,da, us-
tersoese has taken place my its recapture." Writ air
bows Poenan's partisans and flatterers dare to
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say, that ihsessOs Ayres, prepared and upon th • at • ,
is an easier conqueit now, than when it was sot.:
prised by that adventurous Aright and ir not,
what merit can he derive from toe eztraordinat y
exertions which Government may make fur its to.
capture? Sir Hums Pop AM, howevsr, has o en
put under arrest, and, we understand, • ' oss
speedily brought to trial. The result or t'._
it becomes the public to await with patience, and
without prejudice or passion. We trust, therefore,
that the partizans and floterers of Sir flon:s Poe.
HAY will restrain their indiscreet zeal in his service,
in order that those who feel an honest sees to the
public service, may not be Ihrced to adopt a coarse, •
which their sense of justice condemns.

Sir Joan Newport. latrly wrote a letter to the
Council of the Chamber of Commerce. of the city

of Dublin, relAtive to the patti,ipation at IrelAnd

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in the East India Trade. The olsji-et of the [tasting
Interest of Ireland, instead of the present arrange-
ment. is to procure ,!.e right to send a ship from
that Country to China, which may 'return dire° to
Ireland, instead of the present unprofitabSe mew*,
to send nut a certain gnantsty of goods in !welsh
vessels. -nie answer rrceived by Sir JOH • NM.
Poet has been reported to the Commercial Body of
Dublin, at a meeting called tor :hat purpose. It
states, „that a trade from Ireland is not practicable
to any beneficial purpose under the Act passed by
the Irish Parliament in 1795, as by that Act, Jhe
trade from Leland to India is restrtcsed to the
Peninsula of India, and dnes not com,re`lead
China, which is generally conceived to be the most
lucrative object of Eastern adventure; and the
exports from Ireland to the East Indies are re.
striaed I. goads, the growth. produce, and man*.
failure, of His Mune v's European dignini ,ns g
consoquendy, rim bash merchant is excluded from

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lientures; and taso 6'ool shippir.g wises, am!
'O'er princip..l amities that are Irft open by the
Company, to be sui,leci of English private trade."

On the Ist of Dacei-r, the Sampson, Admiral
Srtaetra, arai:ed in the River Plata, laii.ving on
herd General Gsev, who is tb eucceed General
li. no in the cern in sod at the Cape. Admiral STII.
k.iNG, as th-, public already kaow, carried out
-.silk him t rd.rs to supersede Sir Home Poem aid,
in the command of His MAAS? es ships at the
Plata. It had been arranged by Admiral
or tat. NG. that the :Cameron should sail on the 13th
eff. December fad. the. Cape, with General GKIV,
and proceed ft om thence to England, as convoy
ftr that settlement and St. Helena. The Ad-
n.....1 proposed to Sir Howe to take his pas-
.. 4:: in rne Oantiesn, which he declined ; but re•
e.. 1 a transport, which the Admiral could
t save. He, howev..r, accommo fated Sir
I: 4.1 e. with 'he Reqn, which he bad captnred. As
tie- A d:niral had occasion for all the hands on board
of her (twenty five in number) Sir Hosts Poe-
ts •fis was allowed to procure as many men as he re.
wired, to Foceed on his voyage, from other
sources. When the men were procured, and the
ship was nearly ready to sail, the Pheasant, one of
Commodore Doris esse's squadron, arrived, and
gave hopes that the Arde at man of war, and her
convoy, might be soon expefted. In conuquenee,
•dir H. PUP AAPI requested he might wait the ens-
voy's arrival. A fortnight, however, having elapas
rad, and no further amnia of it bring received, Sir
Hogs embarked of hoard the Rd
rh, vzssel set sail on the 27th of December, and
art ired at Weymouth on Monday evening, after ow
of the qu ck fit voyages ever knn en. Sir Flout
pros set.hzd to his residence, near Windsor, whiah he
reached on Tuesday evening, and arrived in torso
;esreeday morning. In the course of t. e day be
attended with Captain fiten, at the Admira:ry.
The .'f'/ND,014 sailed, as was proposed, ca the 19th
of December for the Cape.
Before the erairetion of the time allowed by the
Spanish Proclamation, for the sailing of forei3ti ves-
sels fro-a Monte ‘'idert, several American vessels
were obliged to leave that ports or become captures;
same of them being also liable to' be taken by our
crui•ers. We understand these are about fourteen

detained at Maldonada.
The &hash Committee, yesterday. declared both
the Sitting Members unduly elefted.

Most of our contemporaries, we think, have
sli,cnsd am r.luell the reports in the French Po-
pes., rer,:eaini the declaration of war by }he Porte
Ru►ua. It is stated in sin letter from
Plymouth. that Admiral Lord Cot.r.lNcwnnD
has drtaclsed the Ile. et George, Vice Admiral
Dccan.oliv a ; the Poar,Ns. Rear Admiral Sir
b. SmiTi4 ; and the 'fondue., Cattle, Captain
BOY Lg. to reinforce the svadvin under the COM -
nand of lira Addoiral 3!!' T. Louis, at present
craising off the Dardanelles, in consequence of the
Noble Lord having received intelligence of the
Porte having declared war ogairm Russia. The
presence (.1 •rich a Pace. near Contr:oltinnple, will,
tee trust, have t'ie dewed eff-a, and itsoltice the
Turks.% Government to adopt r decided line of
conduet _

An article, of intelligenee which appeared in this
paper a few days ago, has led some persona to rep-
poi,. that r 1.4 measure of abolishing the Slave
Trade, which the Parsinstrr of the Uouri.o
ge.ete, in his speech at the opening of the Ses-
sieas. so strongly toge.d the Congress to adopt, had
Islet ssith some opposition in passing through the
oivs B tdy. Nothing can be farther from the
truth tli-an tt.is supposition. The Bill for cif ding
the Abolitio.n of this Trelfe, passed the Senate
wit!taut a Jivision, or corona debate. In the House
of Iterr,”.entatives. the principle of the Bill has
been n tresbted ; and the only difference of
epicir:n w:;ich had arisen upon it, when the last be-
counts left Auteric .e, respeSed she Clause which
provided for the disposal of the Slav 'a who might
be seized and forfeited under the Ad. It was at
last determined, that they sbould be fret, and
should he suitably provided for by the United
States. Nothit g cam more sattsfaanrily prove the
taadaLle artiety of tf'e American Ginstuiemi, to
free themselves from the'priih of the Slave Tea le,
than this, that although the AA of Confederation
puts it out of the power of Cmsgress to prevent
the imp,t tainn of Slaves into America, before the
lit of I moat y, IPS; yet, that Congress are nosy
lekslatittg prose: tively (by an aft which makes it
I:lseir to i-npert a slave after that day), so as to
present ary slave voyage from being begun.
wiieh 'hall rot terminate Wore the end of the pre-
seat year. As a proof of the general opinion enter-
taisahl of this trade in America, it may be proper
Oa mention, although the General Congress had
so power to make laws on this subject. which
Arnold take effect hero:, the ttst January, l4*dB,
yet that every State in the Union, with or.e ex-
ception. had ahoirhed it more than ten yeaes
ago. South Carolina furni dies this solitary exception;
and even in this state, attempts have been annually
made, for some years past, to abolish t' is trade,
which have failed generally by a siapje vote. The
attempt mat tetewed by the Legislature of that
State, in Decembet last, and failed again only by a
single rots.. But the question oa the occasion relat-
ed simply to the continuance or discontinuance of
the trade fur the present year, for when that year
shall have terminate I, she Act of the General Can-
grew will supersede all provirscial legislation on the
salspat.,
• 41ee Owe aaserson Nesisentr-, at 1/.1 Xtit to:k
CAtt-1t0.546.

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