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double-lieaded Chancellor of the Exclletrer (as hit
Right l lon. Friend had justly called him) might be
compared to the monster Cal;beir in The Tempest.
who was said to have a mouth before and a mouth
behinds with one of which he spoke abuse, and
with the other he spoke fair words. And he mien
well say with Thecae, that if he once had this
monster in England, he would make his fortune by
sheering him. (Lend fist qf lavpiier.)
Mr. C./411111G &impacted the statenionts of ) r.
Pyre.
413 r. LAMIEINCE sail, that all the thities and
fxtstkioes of this situatinq Insceepersvis,
/Oho Wino-zit nesponsibie fee say thin be di,i. The
'thole af thtu proceadlog deserved the censure it
Wry Tithed, and he hoped *at censure was not
distion adv. , ; ,
)406 IPIIAgETS. in explanatios‘. said, the whole
of Ms objeflion went to slew the danger of the pre-
ceslerg. •
Mr. ILIhNAIRD said, when the Irish Budget
was brought forward, he considered all the state-
ments then made, as coming Mficially from the
Right Hon. Gentleman ; and if he had not so con-
sidered them, he never woul i have consented to the
• resolutions that moved. Now he would ask the
Right Hommel& Gentleman, with whom did
be bold nice! eentrannications out of doors,
en the subjeenf Irelsodl Unless it was known who
was in as official *radon. the King and the
Country were badly served, and Ireland was left
in a situ'ation in which it ought not any longer to
• weenie. The whole of this proceeding was a =sera-
tie wrasitia. fee the purpose of a Member holding
Aim seat a few days longer. If the House did not
.take the business up, he was sure the print-shops
'would ; and that they would soon take are to have
this double-herded monster represented in its pi oper
colours to the public.
W. FOSTER explained.
After a few words from Mr. Jouvsrove, the
Dal was read a first time.
Mr. HUTCHINSON said, he feared the Bill
would injure the interests of the Distillers in Ire-
land. It was then ordered to be read a second
time tomorrow.
Mr. FosrEa brought op the arimoll. Irish
Vote of Credit Bill. aad a Bill for establishing fur-
ther regulations for the better co/leetion of tne Ex-
cise and Customs Duties.—llead a first and ordered
to be read a second time to-morrow
MT. SHERIDAN and Mr. JOHNSTONE asked if a
pledge had not been given to the Bank of Ireland, 1
that no more loans would be raised this year by
bschaquer Bills ?
Mr. FOS PER said, he understood some arrrnge-
inent to that effed had been made, sad he supposed
at would be adhered to
Mr. SHERIDAN said, this was no satisfaloTY
answer, and pressed for one mare explicit.
Mr. FOSTEK said. this mode of questioning him
put him is mind of a circumstance that once occur-
red is the House of Commons in Ireland. Several
tineations ware put. in the absence of the Chancellor
of the Bothestuer. to a Member, who at length made
no othe/Hansiver than this, 'wait until lam moffice."
. Mt. ERIDAYI considered it an as of presump-
tion, that the faith at the Government should be
Pledged es die Bank of Ireland. sad that it should
olkerwarth bibelots
Mr. Foy B. said, be had given no pledge.
The sew Eschisper Bills were not yet issued, and
how they were to be issued was a question for the
Bosse to consider.
INJOHN STRACHEY brought up the report of
die bdia Budget. which was ordered to be taken
late further coosideration on Slooday.
Ms. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of
the Committee on the Loyalty Loan, which was
agreed to. and a Bill ordered.
Mr. ADDINGTON said, this was founded on
tbesupposad validity of the claims of the sabscrilyers
in repayment, previous to April, 180. Ile must
now my what lie stated before that be thought no
each Blaine did legally exist ; and he had the high-
ist law authority for saying so.
DUTIES Ott STAMPS.

Oa the magi for committing the Stamp Duty
3i11:
Mr. SHERIDAN repeated his objeeions to go.
lag into the Committee, on account of the House
not being sulliciently informed as to the nature or
amount of the new duties. The new duties were,
be believed, the same as those that had been pro-
posed by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer,
who gave the public a schedule of them; and
slow he wished to know why this schedule
was withheld. Besides all this, be had a con-
stitutional **dire to the measure. It was
nut to be endured that Government should derive
a gnat revenue from refusing to open the doors of
justice to the people, unless they paid for a licence
to enter them. By raising a revenue in such a way,
the rights of the subj.& were injured. There was
to be an *dekko of RS per neat. on all legal proceed-
ilipirthe Caen of Chancery. This would be com-
p • men to take oat a licence before the could
lath justice there. It was, in foe, ' jus-
;co, and consequently • died violation the
are of Magna Charts—oreili mere jwstitema.
might be smd that such • tax would pre-
' litigatiou, but be would my, that the only dee
I be to leave the comets of laws like the Lon-
.'evern, open to the wealthy; while the poor
completely excluded. He disapproved of the
for making attorneys take out annual
It was a stigma co them. As well might
moment oblige physicians sad merchants to do
He also disapproved of the heavy vas
trances upon lives. It would operate as a
grievance os many poor persons who had no
way of making a provision for their families.
1 moved that it be an instrueion to the Com-
that they Lave power to divide the Bill into

CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
1, paper which the Hon. Gent Wotan wished
- been on the table for some days' and if he
applied mine time in the course of those days
tiling what be appeared now so anxious to see,
114 before that day, have acquired the intor-
, he was so desirous to obtain. For his own
had no objeaion to the printing it. He
«fined, indeed, it had been primed, and the Hon.
Gentleman might have scot somebody to read it for
as to have satisbed his mind on the subjea.
tot his intention, on the present question, to
more of the Bill in derail they ha mild sat

well avoid. He should, therefore, proceed imme-
mediately to mice the principal item with which
the Hon. Gentleman four.d the greatest fault : this
was the stamps on law proceedings, which so much
alarmed the Honourable Gentleman, who had
taken them at half a million, when, in fail,
the amount vas only 60,0001. From what had
fallen from as Hon. and Learned Gentleman oppo-
site, on a former night, be had conceived that he
should have had to encounter a very unpleasar.t
conference with the professional Gentlemen whom
this tax so directly concerned; but, when be came
to meet them, he found they were by no means im-
pressed with those ala• ming ideas he had been given
to understand ; and. after the explanation which had
taken place, they went away, he would not say per-
foßly satisfied with the provisions of the Bill,
which applied so immediately to their profession
and to themselves as individuals, but satisfied as far
as any persons could well be who found they must
become particular objets of taxation. Another
Hon. and Learned Gentleman (Dr. Laurence) had
also taken extreme alarm at the progressive pro-
visions resteMing the stamps, as they related to his
particula- court ; and he was not surpri'ed at it,
when he found, on inquiry, that it look 400 folio
pages as a preliminary step to a suit in the Eccles -
astical Court. However, this alarm arose merely
on a misapprelleasion in not adverting to the word-
used in statin the progressive amount of tie ditty,
as Kati been done in the farmer Ati, which made it
appear to multiply far more th in was the intention ;
it efts, in fad, a mistake, which it was his intention
to have altered before the schedule was completed
aad aided to the Bill. The Hon. Gentleman who
began this debate, had said that the measure of tax-
ing law proceedings was wholly unconstitutional.
In this, he must differ in opinion from him. This
tax had its origin in the reign of King Wil-
ham, and had been recognised and extended
in different reigns since then without having ever
been deemed unconstitutional till now. The Hon.
Gent. had also said, that if this tax was permitted,
it would be impossible for the lower classes of the
people ever to obtain justice, for the expences would
be so great that the courts of law would be shut
upon them. He begged that Hon. Gent. to recol-
let, that the law of this country had, in its huma-
nity, provided a remedy against such a hardship,
and that those who were really poor might sue in
f,rnets panprris. He denied, that it would be advan-
tageous to the country to have all law proceedings
:r ens ; for if they gain their causes they recover the
costs ;'and if costs tall, and fall heavy only on those
who institute suits upon false pretences, such a pu-
nishment will be a benefit to society. He denied
the arguments of the Hon. Gent. as to its being
against Magna Cheria ; for in that statute the words
he had quoted of milli readeeses applied only to the
proceedings of arbitrary times,when the Kings courts
were shut against all wbo did not first pay a fine or
sum of money to the King ; whereas this was only a
tax by a stamp on certain proceedings used in the
courts legally granted by Parliament, and recognised
as the established law of the land. These were the
only dices he found it necessary to advert to at
present ; and he thought them such as were not
sufficant to exclude, and if not to exclude the tax,
he thought the House should not agree to separate
the Bill. As such the motion should have his nega-
tive.

Dr. LAURENCE spoke at considerable length
against the tax, as unequal and unjust. In Chancery
the exposes was only 25 per cent. in the Ecclesi-
astical Courts 50. In the Admiralty Court it fell
peculiarly heavy on the foreign merchants. and on
our brave seamen, who were taxed double.

Mr. ADDINGTON was in favour of the Bill,
and looked on himself as responsible for the sche-
dule, it being nearly a copy of his own schedule.
Charges on law proceedings must, lie said, be con-
sidered as a public evil. Some of those he should
therefore have proposed as they now stand, and
some he should have wished a diminution of. He
thought all the objeas might be obviated in the
Committee, and that there was no need of au in-
struaion to obtain the objea of the motion. He was
therefore for going into the Committee.
Sir W. PULTENEY differed from the Hon.
Gent. who spoke last as to going into a Committee.
The question goes to a great general principle, and
was not so proper for a Committee. He thought
the tat on law proceedings highly unconstitutional,
and the Right Hoar. Gent. he knew once thought to
himself.

Mr. Serjeant BEST said, he was a decided enemy
to the whole of the Stamp Duties, which were car-
ried to such an extent, as to have become extremely
grievous and oppressive; it was a tax on distress and
not on opulence. He objetted particularly to the
ad velem* duty on mortgages and bonds, as he con-
sidered every man in distress who was obliged to
borrow money. He insisted that the tax on law
proceedings was against the principle of Magna
Charts, foe if the party wanting to sue cannot pay
for stomps, the courts are completely shut againsthies. The Right Hon. Gentleman bad said, the
ratTeallailtia 1116,7 m woullnhave th:em again in costs.
recovered, and
He

•
the Defendant was ale to pay the costs. But where
there was an anion to recover landed property,
there were hundreds for debts, and in a great ma.
jority of those no costs could be obtained. tie was
decidedly in favour of the motion.
Mr. W. DICKENSON said a fewwords against it.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL, in answer to
Mr. Serjeant Bur, said, that his argument went
not merely to :otii;s to this Bill, but to the whole
of the Stamp Duties laid on by former Bills ; and
he, therefore, conceived it so far irrelevant to the
Motion now before the House, which was an in-
strultion to the Commons.
Mr. WINDHAM denied the Hon. and Learned
Gendentases position. He said, however good an
argument is against what ha iron law, it may be
equally good against what is stassor am. Things
may be done without beieg very wrong to a
certain peiat ; but after that, it may be very
unwise to continue them. In that 'state, he
thought they were now. He did not know a
great deal from this subjelt, but from a Trea-
tise he had met with, published by a Kr. Ben-
tham, in which he lays down the paradox, that tax-
ing law proceedings was to tax the necessaries of
Ai& for the great an of finance eriag was to make
the people pay according to their means, and in a
tax on law proceedings, they were not taxing pro-
perty, bat *a means of obtaining that property it

LONDON,
THURSDAY. JULY 12.

Private letters from Paris mention several par-
ticulars concerning the late pretended conspiracy,
and the different fates of the condemned, pardoned,
or sacrificed victims, not mentioned is the public
prints. The sentences of them all were dilated by
the GRAMD JUDOS* al ordered by BONAPAILTE j that
of Mosteau alone, the Judges changed from death
to imprisonment, which has caused the disgrace
of three of them, who have been deprived of their
places, and exiled from Paris. All the persons par-
dowd are noblemen, or of families whose good
opinion it is the interest of B
and whom, after the murmurs the murder of the
Duke of ENOHIgN generally excited, it would have
been imprudent, if not dangerous, to send to the
scaffold. Besides, their numerous relatives, and the
partisans of Royalty, and of the BOURBONS, would
probably, sooner or later, have revenged their death.
Rusattion is the only exception, but be belongs to
that oligarchical party in Switzerland, which has
caused so many oppositions to Bonsai sax s's tyran-
ny in that country, that the Usurper- was finally ob-
liged to choose Mr. De WATTBII witta, one among
them, as a landamman ; this explains why Res-
sti.toti was spared. Of those who perished, not
one was a nobleman, and Giotto's only had nu-
merous adherents among the people in the NVesteru
department; but at the same time many persons
among the nobility in France, were jealous or envious
both of his popularity, and the consideration he de-
servedly enjoyed with the King of FRA NCR, and the
PaINC es of the thrum of Bourbon. We have, 11
ever, seen two letters, which positively affirm tliat
his pardon was offered him both at the Bicetre and
in the Conciergerie ; but. upon such terms, that nei-
ther his loyalty. nor honour, nor religion, could per-
mit him to accept. Carried to the place of exe-
cution, in passing the Chatelet, some persons ex-
claimed rive .Gestrge 1 and others applauded him;
but the police agents arrested them immediately.
Goose's bowed to several ladies on the quay, who,
from the windows of different houses, saluted him
with their handkerchiefs, and with tears in their eyes
.hewed that they felt for his destiny, and admired
his loyalty and resignation. Upon the scaffold,
Gaottees desired to address the people, but was not
permitted. General MUSA'S, who was present, de-
manded what be bad to my; his answer was, that

he desired it to be knows, to his countrymen, thu
I. died as he had lived, faithful to his Gun and to
his Kiss ; and, at a taste Chriliciati;`lfifriare, even
his murderer. Bose,' mt., whose soaseision
prayed for, and that he might in his lai:t MetneEts
meet death s:ith equal hope, consolati* tree..
quill:ty. It had been ordered drittioaoss should
be executed the last ; but a rumour bad reached his
st-Serers, that he would be pardoned ups*
Lila scaffold. He demanded of Wear, as a svour,
to be beheaded first, to set them an example hos,
loyal men should die. This was consented to. Be..
tore the executioner tied Gratots' hands, he ens.
bread his confessor, and then, looking up to llea,
yen, ha called nut loudly, Vice le Reis
Rawions! All the •other sufferers died wide ricid
firmness, devo ;on, and loyalty. DUCORP9 and Le
Nlxisc La went to the town-hall just by, oilly to
didate their wills, and were executed twenty 1,4.
nutes later on that account. Their last words weie,
Vice le Roi Liu', XVIII! The scaff..4.l hal bees
placed nearly opposite that Grocer's house, in Nee
de Gr ce, which became drea !fully n,,torions on the
14th ofiltilys 178:), from the lamp.post az its coral.,
where the rebels of that period, undo the c,mmand
of the imbecile La FA v erre, murdered o many
faithful and good subjects.

As the Patisiang, ever since the days of Bello
IPARTE% worthy predecessor, Rottesetaaas, had
never seen so many pretended conspirators butcher.
ed en nan,re, this executing excited not y encore.
mon curiosity, but compassion; and on Midsum-
mer-Day, when Bo AP ARTI passel through the
Rois de Boulogne, all persons walking there, called
out, Grace ! Grace ! Pardon ! Pardon ! which so
much offended the Corsican, that he returned to St.
CLud, instead of going to the Tteetre FlaaCaa at
Penis, where he was expeeted. The same nightbe
sent orders to 10,000 troops, quartered in a circle
thirty miles round Paris, to enter immedlatilly that
capital; and on the day of execution, no less dos
88,000 men were under arms, for fear that the
people should release the prisoners. Not rnly the
way from the Conciergerie to the Place de Great WAS
lined with two ranks of soldiers, but ail the bridles
and streets in the neighbourhood were occupied by
troops of sU descriptions, Kith flying artillery.
Two thousand Italian grenadiers of the cilde.e4
Consular Guard, kept a grarra on the Place de
Greve, and 109 dear erne-: (relien escorted the
prisoners, and surrounded the scaffold.

A law in the former reign- cf terror ordered all
persons convkled of plotting against the lives of the
representatives of the people, or against the Mil-
react of the republic, to be executed dressed in a red
eheisise, or rather frock. Bow AAAAA a desired this
law to be now revived ; but desisted, upon the ob-
servations in Les Newell's a /a Mies of the Ist
Messidor, that within a month 'after this laie haJ
been proclaimed, and sixty pretended conspirators
and supposed assassins of Rte sr ea it e had been
guillotined in red shirts ; this republican tirra
perished himself (they were murdered in Ju..e
1794, and be in July, the same year).
The Senators Le Fr.vaz and Si'. Suzewsi, who
both have served under Moans's, negociated be-
tween him and Box AAAAA re, and caused the former,
who, since his condemnation, has shewn more ch-
ratter than he had done before, to accept d the
offer to go to America, with the value of all his
property, and an annuity of 100,000 I.vres. He
declined the place of a Governor in the Isle of
France, saying, he would never acknowledge Bo-
a as an Emperor, or serve ender hirn as
such. Madame Mousse, on account of the tender
age of their child, was desired to remain in Francs
twelve mouths longer, but she accompanied her
husband, and many think she will embark with him.
Her mother remains yet at Paris employed in dis-
posing of their property. It is said that Bow AAAAA g
intends to purchase Moa EAU'S counts? seat, Gros
bois, for his brother Lot IS. The Tribune MOREAU,
and all the other members of MORLAVI family, will
settle in North America. It is even said that several
Generals, as HAM, MACDONAID, Leconte'',
And others, intend to join their friend Morteiv, in
the United States.

A Court of Diraturs was yeste•diy held at the
East India House, when the destina•.ians of the tol-
lowing ships of the present Season were altered.
They are now consigned as underinentii n:J:
Lord Kedh. Mad u and Bengal.
Dat
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Mudd la Chun
Der/apt." M de a, Wonbay, an I Madras.
Slte.ton Castle Mai or. aid Bo .
The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Vlednen
day next.
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Lottery, yesterday met Mr. PITT in Dowairg-
street ; the following are the particulars : No Ir'•b
or private Lotteries ; the Lottery to be combatted
and regulated the same as List year; also oisr
ments, discount, and dtpoeit. The biddin,z to tali.
place to-morrow, at eleven o'cli.ck t tssciity-fi
thousand tickets, at 101. each: The draw' to
commence the List Monday to Z:eptembet(t: .4.11)*
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