The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-05-14 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSTON-IMUST.
Yesterday a number of waternien were summoned
before the Lord gayer, fm not having conformed
to wear a badge cm their hats or caps, agreeable to
a late Act 4 Parliament ; but only ,me man at-
tended. The city Marshall, who summoned the
above persons to appear, being absent, his Lordship
declined entering at that dine upon the business.
Dret.—On Wedpe,sday evening a meeting took'
place in Epping )'crest, between I.ieutenant T—o,
or the 4eth regiment, of" Park-lane, attended by
Captain oldie Foot Gitards, and .1. L—T,
}..sq. Charlotte-street, Portland-place, attended by
T----r., Esti. of Lincoln's Inn, to decide an
aXair of honour. the parties took their ground,
and tired together without injury ; and a perfe/t
reconciliailai was then ellhited by the interpesition
of the seconds.
liaxwicli was a scene of bustlt an,termfusion on
Monday last., in consequence of the officers of the
Hiwar frigate, with a party of armed marines,
having landtal early in the morning, and impressed
every person they could get hold of that had the
least appraranee of a sailor. Yesterday they were
regulated by the Mayor, and all discharged except
one person (the only one liable to be impressed),
who male h. escape from the town gaol. A great
• ninul:r of mates and apprentices were impressed
from the ships in the harbour, and carried on board
the Hu.vae, where :bey are Jet:next
On Wednesdav at' noon. Mr. C. Sil.vrK Otiveit,
Meniber for the ountrui Linter:el:, went to Wool.
rich V arren, accompanied by Capt. OLIVER Of
'the Navy; Ad some either Gentlemen, and two of
the &Air-street ()fixers, having information that a'
n7an of the name of Dwys;, who had been eon-
vhiied of a horrid murder of both (Alter and son,
in. the County of Limerick. more than two years
since, and who had made his escape front Limerick
was•emplo}ed as a labourer at the Warren.
Mr. ()MYNA in disguise watched 4 the gate of
the Warren; and as the men were coming out to
dinner, seized payer by the collar, and gave him
.in charge to the How-street Officers.
This active Magistrate dee, not confine his exer-
tions to his own countr;., where be has been inde-
fatigable, but -traces out vilhtios and murderers
wherever he can hens of .then, even into the heart
ui the bietitipaas. -• • • •
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FRENCH CUSTOM DUTIES.

'The followingfleport, presented to the Tribunate
on the 2tith April, is of considerable importance, to
the conuncrcig world :
On the Order of the DaiLfz- the Report on the
Projot de Coi respecting t ustoms, Vanhaltern
said, " he law of the '2Oth Floreel, year 10, au-
thorises the Government provisionally to raise or di-
minish the Customs, toestahlish or alw'lish emporia,
to prohibit or permit the importation or expertation
of all mercantile tommodittes, on condition that
such modifications shall be submitted in the tnri'u of
a Preit dr Loi to the Legislative Body at its next
'ensuing Session.
l'he Government, in acquittal of that obliga-
tion, this day,preseuts to you a Prjet de Loi upon
the customs, in regard as well to the modifications
:11ready made upon the foomer scheme of duties, as
to the new customs, suggested by
.a considera-
tion of the welfire of our commerce and na.
Clonal industry, and rif what is fur the good of the
Republic.
" Customs are established to pmteft, and not to
trammel commerce. They are intended to Operate
with the drat of a premium for the encouragement
of our manufifbires and nntional industry. They
serve in the hands of Government as a rudder, as a
counterpoise, by which the balance of trade may be,
at any time, inclined in our favenr, or at least pre-
Served from tuening against us. , •
" Such were thee principles adopted by the Con-
stituent Assembly, the views of which compre-
hended almost every `rand and solid principle in
political (economy. According as these principles
shell be more of less happily applied, oar trade and
national industry will be room or less successfully
promoted.
6' It is the desire of the Government, by restoring
and augmenting out nranufeOures, to accomplish
the two ends, of procuring subsistence to Millions of
Frenchmen who are not 'proprietors, and. to restore
the hala,nce of trade; which, ever since the disaster
of our American Colonies, has been so much against
us.
66 The plan now presented to you, introduces no
new scheme of duties. Its schedule of duties is
the same which was decreed by the Constituent
Assembly, on the 31st of January, the Ist and the
2d of March 1791, sanflioned, with some modi-
fications, on the .leth of March of the same year,
farther modified and sandioned on the Ist of Au-
gust 1792, the 19th of May 1;93, and the 9th Flo-
veal, year 7.
1. The first title in this plan relates to Imports.
" Fire-arms, and other weapons of war, lately
exempted from import-duties, are, by the present,
plan, to becurne subjec to them. The duty on
those v.'hich are called white arms, is fixed at 100
francs for every five inyiiagraruse and it. is to be
for fire-arms lib' francs. Transparent plates of
horn, horn for combs, soaps, sal ammoniac, and
white cottons, if flowered or embroidered, are, at
the same time, subjeOled to an increase of duty.—
It is in consideration of the re-establishment of peace,
that these augmentations and new impositions are
introduced.
" The importation of pit-coal is permitted, for
the benefit of our manufadtures. But to preteft the
interests of the proprietors of the coal mines within
France, it is subjefted to certain duties upon its in-
land conveyance, which duties are proportioned to
the distances of the maritime departments from the
places in *hide coal mines are wrought.
" For the etwOuragement of the cotton manufac-
tures, tottonetbol.from the Levant is charged with
a shay of.a franc for every five myriagramsl un-
bleached
cotton cloths, with a duty of ti francs per
myriagram; bleached cotton cloths, with a duty of
10 francs per myriagram.
" To encourage the fisheries of France,. Govern-
ment has thought fit to impose a duty of 20_ francs
per every A myriagrams on the importation of fo.
reign cured fish., On theimportation of stock-fish,
however, the duty is augmented, because this can
be pre/eared only in the North, and is much used in
the departments lately united to France.
" 2- Eiportatio n.—Pitch, resins, new cordage,
wrought copper, COr.slcan n ines, sewing silk, and
flints, as they are very abundantly produced in the
territory of France, are subjeeted only to very Mo-
derate dutieS upon expOrtation. life exportation' of
all raw silks, but these of Piedmont, is prohibited.
As the culture of the mulberry-tree, and the rear-
ing of silloworinse are the principal source of the
wealth of Pie-limn, and the manuftOtures of Lyons
:ire het sufficient t.' consume all the raw silk, pro-
duced in that country; it would, deerefere, be un-
reasonable to refuse to the Piedmontese the liberty
Of exporting their law silk. On the same funda-
mental principle, the expertation of wood and ssme
other dying stuffs is prohibited. And-the importa-
tion mei-asses and of refirsed sugars, the produce
of foreign colonies, is hiicf under prohibition. On
the exportation:of sugars refined in Franco, bounty
wit be granted. equal to the dmyon the importation
of the raw material.
*6 3. Of EMPORIA or Poll TS.—There are, by this
plan, two species; one, at which only produc-
tions of the French teolenies 'are to be a...trainee ;
an.;;lrri-, at which all foreign goods, not under a ge-
neral prohibition, may be imported. At these
ports, the imports trey lie warehoused, without pay-
ment of the duties; tilt They that! be brought -into
sale. The towns which this plan proposes to declare
ports,. are. itlarseilleti, Cctte, Bayonne, Bourdeaur,
Rochelle Mintz, l'Onent, St. Make Cherbourg,
Rouen, Havre, Honfletir, Dunkii k, Ostend, Bruges,
and Antwerp."

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Of the ICtNa of SPAIN, BONAPARTX has demand-
ed the exclusion of ngland limn ail his Farb, and
a permission for 00,000 Frenchmen to mach through
Spain to besiege Gibraltar; but as on the Spanish
Frontiers there are not yet 1 ),O)') FrenCh 'croups;
this it only a 'revolutionary 11;itt, that the Corsican
wants some more of Spanish dollars lately ar-
rived ; but ,Politieians think even this saciitiee teall
.not pmeure gpaHn'the right of Neutrality longer
.thitn.till the arrival of the galleons expected iziun
Mexico before next winter.
'We are mach surprited that not one of the
former Generals in Chief are nominated to evm-
mand BON ArAurs's Armies; some think he does
not trust them, others, that they are discontented,
and have refused the Commands ; it is even said,
one of the first French Generals answered lately
when he was offered the COmmand in Germany,
that as the' Armies sent there were intended to
plunder and not to fight' our hcpetul brother Lu-
(Ars, or our favourite Is 4 ameliike Itosrats, were
titter to command them than any Frenchman.


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