The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-04-14 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY, APati. 14.

The Bill for granting further additional Duties
upon Income, as amended by the Committee of the
House of Commons, has been printed. All Income
under 501. a year is to be totally exempted, and

upon all Income betvi,ev 501. and 1001. a year, an
abatement is to be allovhd of two shillings in every

20 shillings, by which the Income falls shun of 10'11
By this clime. we understand, that a mars whose
Income i. 601. a year, and wouli, according to the
general rule of 101. per cent. be liahlsr to pay (1. is
to be allowed a dedultion of eighty shillirgs, which
will reduce his attual payment to 21. An In-
come of 701. a year, will. according to the same
rule, he allowed an abatement of sixty shillings,
and consequently be liable to an airtual duty of 41.
and so in gradation to 1001. at which the full duty
of 101. per cent.

Following up the principle of stopping the duties
upon the dividends, at the Bank. the Bill cnaas,
a. that the heads of certain public baards, and Aires,
shall dedua the duties due upon the salaries of their
Clerks and Agents, that the tenant shall dedua the
duty from the rant due to his landlord, and all
Agents and Trustees, the duties due upon the sums
received by them, for their Principals." This is, in
fait, to make a third person the returning oEcer,
with respea to all such description of income ; and
as he has no interest in unier•rating the sum, there
will be little danger of false returns in this class of
income. The Aft contains the usual abatements
for Colleges, Friendly Societies, &c. ; but we End
no allowances for children. Persons claiming ex-
emptions, may be examined upon oath ; and per-

sons forging or altering certific ites or receipts,
upon convretion, shall be transported for a term of
14 years. The Bill embraces 104 folio pages, and
contains several other previsions against a fraudu-
lent evasion of the ditty. The substance is given in
our subsequent columns.

We are concerned to find that the New Military
Plan submitted to Parliament, has given offence to
some of our Volunteers. OnFriday last, a Committee,
consisting of the Officers and four privates of the
Saint Saviour's Volunteer Infantry, were summoned
by their Commandant, Major POTTS, who informed
them, that Mr. Win Dun ss, the Secretary at War,
having brought in a Bill to regulate the Volunteer
system, and that not understanding the new
regulations, he thought it advisrable they should
resign. On this representation the Committee
came to several resolutions ; the result of which was,
that the Corps should resign ; and a letter to that
purpose has been sent to the LORD LI EL TS.
NANT of the County. This Corps consisted of
about one hundred housekeepers of the parish of
St. Saviour, in the Borough of Southwark, armed,
accoutred, and clothed, at their own expence. Some
members of the Corps, we understand, do not ap-
prove of this proceeding of Colonel Pores and the
Committee.

We have received New-York Papers to the 9,11
ult. They bring the important intelligence, that.
on the Slit ult. the Senate were engage/ on Mr.
Wamar's Bill, relative to tie impressment of the
seamen of the United States; when, after a long
discussion, the whole was struck out, except the
words " Be it enlitd ;" and that a new Bill was
brought up in its room, which met with a similar
fate.

The American Government was about to send a
Minister Extraordinary to the Eli iti,h Cilia, to re-
monstrate on their grievance, but it is now under- '
stood that such a measure will be dispensed with.
Oa the tftith February, Mr. Mt rcliklx, from the
Committee appointed on the suisjefl, brought up a
report on those parts of the Memorials from the
merchants of New York, and others, relative to
providing a faithsr naval armament for the pub-
lic defence. The report, after referring to the
strong reasons urged in these Memorials, and to the
President's Message of the Sd December, relative
to the considerable provisioa made for materials for
construning ships of war, observes, " Th.tt calcu-
lating the adpropriation which will be required, to
augment to a. very con.iderable degree the naval force
of the nation; cunteml4.illg the insults and depreda-
tions committed by f,:rt star our coasts, and
lat die Moedif ti; our most f::(;:izilte..! hat Jour:; acid

estirna•itog 11te prntenion and security to ;he ters‘•
tory of the nation, and the persons and pror,r y o
its citizens, by an enlargement of the means of ma-
ritime dear, c^, tho Committee are of of ini:rt,
• That it expedient to make provision by I.tw 1-r
the appropriation of any balance wbich may rem Ail
unexpended of the Alediterranean fund, to the par-
pose of building ships of the line, agreeably to the
at`.l of February 25th, 1805."

We have received Dutch Papers to the 9th inst.
at which date the proceedings of the extraordinary
meeting of the Legislature had not transpired.
'!'his circumstance, combined with the m irch of a
strong French force iato Holland, confirms the opi-
nion which we have already expressed, of a disin-
clination, on the part of the Dutch, to the new
constitution proposed to awns by 800 A PA It T E•

Accounts from Berlin state, that she prospeß of
a war with Sweden has excited great discontent in
the Prussian army. Fifty Officers, it is said, were
put under arrest, for having delivered their senti-
ments with too much freedom on the degradation
to which their SOVER[IOI4 had reduced himself.
Among them was Prince Lewis, brother to the
Kiso. After a confinement of two. days to his
own apartments, he was set at liberty. The others
continued under arrest, and it is positively stated,
that the windows of COAillt HAUGWITZ, to whose
counsels the dependence of Prussia upon France is
attributed, were broken by some of the military.—
F.ven the amiable Queen of PRUSSI A, a, cor,i;lig to
report, has been insulted on account of h,r sup-
posed partiality to France.

The Duke of Yoga arrived at Windsor, from
town, on Saturday morning.
On Saturday, PIiNCeSSUS AUGUSTA am! So!MIA,
accompanied by lord Carsicang, General MAN-
NERS, and Colonel Tio: non, took an airing, en
horseback, by Cranbourn.
Yesterday morning, His M Aitsre, Ptincesses
AUGUSTA and So FtlIA. accompanied by Lord Ca T
C A T., General Mate:zits, Szt... went to St. Cccrgc's
Chapel, and heard an excellent Serinin, preached
by the Rev. Dr. DooswoaTia.
On Saturday the agreeable news of the arrival,
at Cork, on the 6th inst. of the following ships, was
announced at the East India-house, viz. the Retreat,
Copt. H•e, from Bombay ; /Alga, Mosaic, from
Bengal ; and the Millard country ship, from Bom-
bay They sailed from St. Helena, on the 429th
January, in company with several Whalers, part of
which arrived some time since.
The outward bound West India Stet was getting
under weigh, from Cork, on the 4th inst.
It was finally determined, we understand, at the
last Cabinet Meeting, that Mr. Jacasott, our Mi-
nister at the Court of Berlin, should be recalled,
and that orders to that effee have been sent off.
The Hon. Sir AIITHUR WELLLSLEY is returned
to serve in Parliament for Rye.
Our letters by the Lisbon Mail concur in stating,
that all the French and Spani,h prizes taken in the
glorious action of Trafalgar have been put into a
temporary state of repair, in Gibraltar Bay, and
only waited for a fair wind to sail fur England.
The Diamond frigate, which, with L' Aide and
Cresfeat, and ..a/art,a/ gun-brig, form the in-shore
squadron, lately looked into Brest, and ascertained
that six sail of the line, four of which were three-
deckers, besides frigates, were ready for sea
The Atalanta brig lately looked into Rochfort,
and found there one three-decker, and five two-
deckers, with six large frigates, apparently ready for
sea. The squadron watching them, under Admiral
Tactttaowoucti, consisted of the Aimee of Wales,
of 101 guns, Malta 84, Achille, Concuitor, and
another, of 74 ; Pallas, Iris, liamard, Atalanta, and
Courier ; and, we understand, is to be reinforced by
two ships of the line from the Channel fleet.
The Osmium, Captain MARSII•SL, arrived, on
Saturday, in the River, from Bremen, states, that up
to the tith inst. no interruption had been given to
the trade of our vessels with that port. The Onttutsm
sailed from Bremen on that day.
A Gottenburgh Mail, with letters of the 4th inst
was received, on Saturday, at the Post Office. A
letter from Petersburgh, by this conveyance, dated
the Sfith oh. states, that the Russian troops about
to enter Turkey, amount to 73,000 men ; and that
a corps of reserve was forming on the frontiers of
Besserabia. The Russian armies in Poland have,
since the Tthh of January, been reinforced by nearly
SO,Quu recruits from Livonia, Lsthonia, and their
neighbourhood.

The Mary. SAL-rea, from Charleston, fur Cork,
has put into Bermuda, leaky.
The Provident, JAcossos, from Wilmington,
is detained, and sent into Harwich.
The Ann, Last, from London, for Gibraltar,
was captured on the kith February, by a Spanish
privateer. and carried into Vigo.
*Fhe Vrow Marin, —, from Bayonne, for Stet-
tin, is detained and sent into Penzance.
Extras, of a letter from Oporto. dated 14th
March, Melt—The Lord Nelson cutter privateer,
of Guernsey, of 10 gun, belonging to Guernsey,
arrived here on the 4th inst. with a Prirtuguese
vessel from Dartmouth, laden with salt fish, bound
to this port, which had been captured by a row-
boat, a great many of which are on the coast at
present, which board and plunder every vessel they
meet, indiscriminately."
'1 he Friendiiiip, —, from Poole, for this port,
was captured on the 9th lost. off Villa Canda, by a
Si)anish privateer, bat is since retaken.
The following vessels are sent into Bermuda, viz.
theiernes and William, POLL Amp, from the Isles of
France; and the Nancy, CH atszte, from the Cape
Good Hope, bound to America ; both vessels
and cargoes are condemned. The Jong.- 14e, Ivey,
from Batavia; and the Chddlatir, --, from
Charleston, for :,loupe, are detained, and ca-
pe:led to be cond.:armed. -

1

GERMAN THE ATR E.
On Saturday night, the fallowing very eirera;n-
ing little piece was performed, entitled ihc
DRAMATIS PERSON /E:
Wicaenberg - - Master Ginssvei.
Slierbe,,ll4 C:erlt - • - 111i,s I. Sin it.salt.
Kinigla4clt - - - .1"44A01,01.•
Cltailotte, hi: Da tqllter - $4l-a Ss.ttn. .
Mrs. . Z 1428 SCHIRMER.
Mrs. Adler $
Check, Jockey - - - M-sater Sniat. ''•
Kinter Plaldrian •
WilLbaid, a Come.li in Master F. Sett:ism*.
Snow Toni, an Italian Musician • -
Knoellm, a Soldier - - - WORE Senn Mtn.
The plot is very simple. Klinzbeeli, '1
rich t,:r:-
zen, is determined that none lint • man of learnOr:-
and science shall be the husband of his dati„).te,
IfreseuLtrz, who is in secret correspondence to :r
Ckarlolit, tensible of his incap:rcity to rank hirnselt.
among the teamed, yet wishing to appear as such,
in the eyes of old Kline. ,n•Ss it espoieni Se
gain a literary reputation, by publishing a ir
Journal. Chorlate loses no time to neeatila this
circumstance to her father ; who, pleased with that
undertaking, is easily persuaded to pay a visit to
the Editor, accompanied by his daughter; hole
numbers of silly forls apply for the insertion of
their respeaive advertisements, viz. a widow who
begs to announce that her third husband was bir-
tied the day before, and that a fourth has already
made her nErs ; a tailor's wife, who pretends to be
a lady of consequence, complains of her• dignity
haying been trifled with in a paragraph ; a drunker
soldier, who wants every good action he has done
to :re inserted into The &c.: but the chief
charaners, who apply to the Editor, are performed
by Master FRO:KRICK SCIII MER ; Gist he appears
as a pedant ; next, as a music-master ; and last, as
a comedian. In the two last char-afters, we mar
defy any veteran to equal his pet formance ; his act-
ing can only he seen, but not described. Klinglach
is rut only pleased, but convinced, that the Editor
of T 4.7 Jeireaat must he a learned MAD, and gives
him the hand of his daughter.
'file house was well attended, and the whole per-
foro...nces warmly applauded.
•rwmr•S

Lord ComberJoie. IZ, 1606.
Notice is hereby given that there will bee Drawlns- moat
at St. Janse.'s,ua Titut.4l:y ne,t, the 17th Inst.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Aeracota
give a grand dinner yesterday, at the Priory, to the
Earl and Countess of Aro eanece, Visctient
Viscousness CASTLEREAGH, and szveral other Nooi.
lily.
Lady PERTH and the Hon. Miss Daum mono
dined, yesterday, with the Hon. Miss ELeHriisroses,
at their father's house (Lord knee), in Harley-
street.
'fhe Duktrand Duchess of St. ALBAN'S gayer*
grand dinner, yesterday. at their house, Stratford-
place, to several of the Foreign Ambassadors and
Nobility.
Sir A. Lady, and Miss Hume, arrived, last Satnr-
day, at their house, Hill-street, Berkeley-square,
from Wormleybury, near Cheshant, Herts.
The Duchess of Go Koos, and a sele9 party of
Nobility, dined, last Saturday, with Lord and Lady
Ca Rs MITCH, in St. James's-place.
Lord ALE:at:net GORDON Wit town, yesterday,
for Deal.
Lady PERTH had a card party last Saturday, at
her house in Grosvenor-square ; at which mere,
Lord F. BEALICIARR, Baron De Roth, the Hon.
Mr. Bee°, and the Hon. Mr. Pao MROSZ
Sir Glt RENT and Lady Haar itcoe e are ex-
petted, tomorrow, at their house in Grosvenor.
square, from Normanton Park.
Sir JOHN NEWPOLT left town on Satureay at two
o'clock, on a visit to Lord GRFNVILLE at Drop-
more, where he will remain until this day.
Mrs. TeLvos will give a grand rout next Wed-
nesday, at her house, in Berkeley-square.
The Duchess of GORDON dined yesterday with
Mr. arid Mrs. Fotenvcc, at their house, Whitehell.
The Right Hon. Mr. Fox entertained a selett
party at dinner, yesterday, :it his seat, St. Anee's
Hill, and he is expetcted in town this day.
The number of subscriber. for es ening a statue
to the memory of Mr. PITT, at CilUbridi4e,
367, and the sum raised is 49011. 7s.
Mrs. BILLIWGTON'S engagement at the Opera
House, concludes with the season, and it is said 511*
will head the harmonic corps at Covent Garde..
Theatre next season.
The Duchess of Leiusrea will give her firs:
grand rout this season, next Wednesday, at her
house, in Grosvenor-place.
Lady Tit aloe etatooterin came to tows last Friday,
on a visit to Lerd and Lady PETRI. in Grosvenor-
sqttare. Her Ladyship returns this day to her
seat at Buckland, Berks. Sir Joism has given up
his house in Curzon-street, May Fair.
The Ladies TOWNSILEPD were enjoying the chil-
ling breeze yesterday, for near two hours, in Gros-
venor-squire.
The Opera, on Satenehay. was crowded with NJ-
bllity • amongst whom were—
Th. Ditehessys of (lord in, St. **bale., 61.40 n. and Nee
thembeeana ; the Mar.:tiro ea•as 11,iliert, sea
o.erettall; Pio Cuunitea•es of Raminsorr, Sefton, Itilekingium
,hire,Care, and Cartsfort; Viw.iutite,sesCastboo,gh,
brook., atAk Constughaot ; L,dion liawardeto„ Tur ter, F. Sri'
nt,nu, Templetown, Calder, M. Dunzao, .ind Caroline Leo.
The White Plume ereaed its
.feathers at Covent
Garden Theatre, with increased raccess,on Saturday
night. The house was crow,:i d ; Ladle' MI"
IHDMASI, WELIY, E. Mot:camera, and Lord
Ds DUNSTLIIVILLZ, were present.
The attraction of Mrs. Jontsato's Vietede, ia the
Comedy of The Wonder, filled every pelt of Deny-
Lane Theatre, betore the rising cf curtain, on
Saturday night. The Forty 7hisecs cont;cure
levy their successful sontributions on the public.
with increased effea. In the fashionable circle, we
observed Lord Chtvr, Lady J. Was. rrthsair, zdJ
Lady BA RIM.
Mrs. Heathrow, whose beneSt takes place
night at the Haymarket Theatre, is comider: a a
s most premising candidate for drara...nc fame.