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„,,eanitn:tled, aad floe arport orJerctl lo be received te.
IlivirsoW
(i the motion a Mr. LIPIIIINGTON the Life Annuities
Bill was read the third time awl panned.
Mr V. RLAILt presented a Petition from the Inhabitants
erGat•wit • ' the Whitlow Tax —Laid nit liir table.
Mr. Boswi.Ls, gave armee of a notion far Moonlit” the
„( Mae, fur leave to bring in a Bill to declare that all
Art. rrl.tive to Scotland which were pa.sed since the I/iitiiii
3r.' 1.01 affected by sinii.ubservasiee or contrary custom*, but
remain in full force until rep•elyd.
Adjourned at Half past Eleven ()Vlach.

FINANCE Iet:POUT.

The Fir.it Report firm the Select Committee no i
the Finances of the Country has been rowed by
epkr of the Howie or Comnoms. This Report, I
Eke those which emanated from the F'..kott r Coon-
Nate of the last Haase of Cll ttttttttttt iorr.enia
peohtag more thaw ocatoteraroot of the several
ulFicwl
documents which from time to time have. hewn !
Lid before Parliament, and a conipitotive vie., of
their several resells. There is no doubt a cert int I
winnow. to expowitimis Th
ere is
nature. built surely I
they can not fulfil the Idea . sere nroltiony
mind must he deposed to elite; ono of whit the Is- I
lwn, of a Finance CommOter ought to hr. We
boa in the various Iteporis hitherto putoli-iirol,
uo
oliestionos for the aolontows of a gen. oat ayalrni
of Finance. Inoviiiit for its object an rcimilirotimi
of the trienue and expenditure. reclmive Of a I,
islosig Nod for the obliteration! of Ilse public oleht.
We find no improvements proposed wt lilt Ent)tle Or
tallvi•lnnj Ills taxes of the coasstry. although it
to sotsonue nun In twiny intrasices the !machinery
of sae Insalate system is ea clumsy in its
naa. and Souks so !warmly. as to cause a lourdemoolour
dlistresoilig friction.. The Committer. perhaps,
taa.gifie that such conarderaiiinis belting earloosisrly
se 11w Cii os CELLOS of the —W4IOIILQULR or to the
HAI... 111 11... ULSIMUII• bat such iroodouliterlty could
t have htrit in Iltr Conlelno4lonti of the !louse
whiqo this Coonixotee eau inaptuted. cowl, I.
?non a d statrineot of 111T1111, us are of too *woos.
sidereble a nowt. to 'Prone the milibutottoetot of a
Select Committee. They ore *dims the power of
sin} onitivillit .1, and something higher in its nature
should emanate Is the present Committee.
We her already infurtortl our readers that the
reVllll4, ter 11w ytar ended lite bib or .la.
nuaty. Wit 9, amounted tttt t 53,6.113 A/
11 •of perltAte.lbr r..sso nab. r d that the...oast
Isis the anew puma, as .atunairsl its the
fototh R. p, rt of the tasti Cogs ttttt tire, • es.. 1 61.005.364

Thme ie, therefore, an ntrrelev of rest ipt over
the estimate of

In this, however, it i.e to he remarked, that to
the Patti (kV both of (;•.-a• B.ttases rod Ireland,
and its the Excise anii Aria seed Taxes of Ireland,
tiny, hue been a delioareiry, as compared with the
Irsatisteade. We also shoed, at the proper time,
that there was au iicireoet ill the Revenue of the
year ennui S'lt Januar). 1819. a% compared with
the sewed', g year. cot 1,891.479/. From their
statements ilw Connuitire t.he uccasioo to con-
routine the House on ilw improving. Nate of
the it-venue, rod then enter into • consideration
of several ponds of detail. They six's, that the
vital sum hitherto 'lip oiled for the new ro,t
nrner
bar beers OS 000/. mud t1i..1 a debt of 6.0001. still
rental's to 1w paid liar nooses and hoods. Front
the insprownsseut to the Excise and Customs, they
conclude that the measures taken for the prevention
01 imurggli.dg have hero iii a great degree succe-,,fisl,
WWI seppect w Irelend„ ,be general result Ills
been lens taisourable than. so Gnat Britain. Al-
though there has been. as the Cumulate, state,
rogue uninoteatent in the t.tal produce of the Kr.
venue of the part of tlw Kingdom, the
t ha- Isllen slum of the estimate by the sum
col 412 993/. Soaw allowances however. is sought
to be mane for this. ill consequence of the repeal
of a port of the window tat; but the Com-
mittee have forgottett to observe, that tlw defi-
ciency complained of dot but sake place au touch
under the lwari of the window tax as under
that of the Esciw. Besides, they must he
aware that relief from latutliou in one point,
when it presser with undue severity, mend almost
of necessity be attended with a proportiotiate in-
crease io usher branches ; for as ihr means of en-
joyment are rolasord, advantage will be taken of
them, and eli triarraiseri consumption soli produce
a salutary effect op the ansouot of the Revenue.
Having stated she general income of the Visited
Kingdom for the year raided the s•ls of Jut. 1819,
and composed it with the estimate of the Coinosittre
of 11w lust Howse of Commons, :aid also with tl,e
income for the year ended the Is of January, 181.8,
the Committee proceed to offer Ilti ...roomy of the
probabeiimount of the jocosity for the years ended
the sth of January, 1810, and the ::‘h of ,ionary,
1831, respectively. This estimate they form on a
tow of the produce ref the Iteveistie for the year
td, and they thence conclude that .the Revenue
of the eurreut and of that eliding olie.sth of January,
1311, including 250 0001. manually estimated to
snow from Lottenee, and 250,0001. from the sale of
old naval store-, may be taken as 54;000,0001.
The expenditure, however. nt the current year is
estimated at the sum of 67.779,88 W.. of which
19.379.t;81/. are required to guest the Army, Navy,
Ordnance, and Miscellaneous Service, ; thr.ripen-
diture inerefore of she year rustling ohs, th January,
Ign, well exceed the Revenue, according to die
istiimiteof die Committer, by the eilotMOnit sum of
13,779.8,42/. With this we mutt close our abstract
of this tteputt, rematkiirg only, th.it the Comm:ire
propose a reduction in the expenditure. nor'
any menus cot rinsing the outcome to curet it. They
ti,erelote toppeur 10 sanction our present ruinous
e'.•'t•ile of borrowing, whereby the country must
I rentals ructioabered wills its oppressive debt,
.nod tear slier year of psolousol peace be bath:real
r,,:i over ois without reducing our burdens ur
atteligthenin4 OW 'roomer..

Adrirda have thi, day redo lied Luoirinir from the
We.* lithe.,o late as hhr Iwgiouoing of laid 'lomat),
which coommunicatr the intelligence.. this, Grows 41
bilintoot having been jourotill at Aux Cayes by
lhr hero and JUON4ArCh Ir dilalSOr le. wills troops trout
Etiglai.d, he had iturnethately set sail for the
Spanish Naito, and had 011 the '26th tot F. bruil
lauded of situ. Mdslll4, aiihrout any tolopinornio,
which was oat expected, as we wen- informed by
previous secouuts that all the regular tromp. hdd
firero withdrawn how New Granada by Ueurfil
Aloatt.l.o.

4Peo the reboil uf Sit .10119 NIGIIT3RI.O /Pete`
lirtrrylt Pttevi or Friday last—For Colosel
Bagwell rrail Colon., [ingot.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 48, 1819.

Yestertloy Mr. Ilass., front the flank of Eng-
land, officiolly communicated to the Gentlemen of
thr Stock -Exchange, that should o LOAN he eon-
trarted for by the CHANCELLOR of the EICHE-

QUER to meet the expenditure of the present yektr,

Exchequer hills wall be taken at a premium of 901.
to the amount of nor-fourth part of any roh•cnp-
tiom which individual,. nu.), think proper to make.
The following is a ropy of ihe notice:—

" Treahury ehnmbers, April V, 1919.

" Lord Liverpool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
request the Governor and Deputy Govtrtior of the Bank of
Effiglaitil will have the gooilto-so to canoe to be notified at

the Sloe k Exchange., in the tooled manner, that it is their
intention to propose, Ilia Eseheepicr Bills upon the Aids I
and Snieplies, and which have not Owen advertised to hr paid
off, shall hr received at a torenOnm of 2111. per cent. to pay-
Mitt of the instalment of any Loan whirls may be contract-
ed for in the per sent year, ill a proportion not e see echo;
26 per cent. upon each instalment.
" The premium, to...!•••lier with the interest dor upon the
Bills, up to the day of payounit, will be paid in money"
ThO communication may be rereived as con-
doles with regard to Vile determination or the Lords
of the Treasure to have recourse to the expedient of
a Loan to meet their present exigencies. It is to
he lamented, however, that their Lordships should
think item:l.l4lot with their duty to the ptihhe to
suffer tins opinion to he collected by inference from
this piree of conditional information, rather than
to accompany it with an explicit declaration of
their iiiientions. Now moth more manly and be-
connii& would it have been to state that they Pro'
posed to ask from Poliatnent the power of eon-
tracting for a Lone' to meet the sup Fly of the year,
and that is the event of Oita' g such an sloths.
rity, they would receive Exchequer lolls, as before
airatiatted ? Such a mode of procedure would be
kolitnuous and sincere, end conduct to allay the
anxious solicitude which has for some time agitated
the public mind on this important matter.

It would seem, however, if our co►clusion he

correct, that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
her at Iry h succeeded to fonuing some resolution
respecting the finances of the year. We congri-
White the Right 11911. Gentleman 011 11114 fortunate
result of his meditations ; for, previous to the Easter
recess, he presented a very distressing picture of
helpless indecision. We think, however, that,
bowleg formed some opinion, he should have lost no
time in communicating it to the House of Com-
mon'. The House was certainly an worthy of his
re"pcctful attention as the Stock Exchange; hut
probably he finds by experience that he tray veil-
tore to treat the one aid' lees ceremony than the
other.

It will be seen by the abstract we have this day
made from the First Report of the Finance Grit-
mittre, that, according to the estimate of the Com-
mitter, the expenditure of the current year will
exceed the reveuue by a sum exceeding thirteen
Now, supposing that, by the plan rr-
cretly adopted by Parliament for applying the
growitig produce of the Consolidated Fund to the
public service, a sum of three millions might be
made applicable towards meeting the supply, a
stun of ten millions would still be required.
This the Minister proposes to raise by way oT loan ;
but it will be orris by referring to our parliamen-
tary report, that last evening Mr. GREW vel.b.rtve
notice in the House of Commons of Isis intention ,
to move this evening for the production of certall
papers, aliening how far it may be proper to make
the sinking fund of the year applicable to the
public service. The sinking fund of this year
amounts to something about fifteen millions. On
the propriety of touching any part of this fund,
we are aware there exists much diversity of opinion;
but the disadvantages of having recourse annually
to loans, are so many and serious, that in our opi-
Mon they outweigh any advantages oltich may be
derived from a steady application of this fund to-
wards reducing a debt at one end, which the
CHANCKI.LOR of the EXCHEQUIR is sedulously
increasing to an equal amount ;it the other. The
Cs:auto:Lott of the Excusteurit's notice
dared an iinutediate depression of the funds. The
Consuls fell to 71i, but they soon after rallied, and
left off at 711.

The •P.lris Papers nf• the 24th, Saturday last,
have arrived. The debate upon the second pro-
ject of the law relative to the made of prosectit.
ing the offences of the Press, want resumed in the
Chamber of Deputies on the •291. The 11th and
12th articles were adopted; the hitter of which pro-
slimed a long discussion respecting the place in
which the libel should be prosecuted—or, as it is
trchilicsilly called in English legal practice, where
Ihr venue should be laid ; some conteitillog that it
should at the place of residence of the complain-
ant. and others of publication. The Chamber ad.
jiiiiii ed the debate upon this point until the next

l'lw Five p►r Cent. Cotionl* were ou Fridsy,
66 Er. 65 Artiiims 1.514 fr. 30 c.

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BfiXtY

The match htlween Joithoa llliaison, %Ito'trims, a
wAtermnit below bridge, tOr AO tear &coiled yes-
t.lny, 111 ille tilt...4oMS opposite %Voss'wick, .64 the presto,.
of •evrn or ei Cht thousand speenti.,rs. ti oloott is Rsr iesol.
lII' levier, Of II si *h.) 11:11 men's flue &Wstes
sits sine side, awl' he promises to he M lad of niertt. Ilia a6l
versary is a power/ill man, of solo.tioe weight, and the
.11101. who killed a Insollord eit a roc Int light lately. The men
set.to at one (o'clock. Neemol.., and Tim o.en
for Ilsolson, and Oliver and a 'stranger, fur the watermata.
Bell Mg, g sic In pOllll/is on
Hudson.
Twenty '.ins round,. writ' fonght, hot there was so much
gameness to them, that to detail them would be tiresome, as
the wales-nom was dear, hest.

MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHP.
sEVERAL PERSONS KII.I.ED AND WOUNDED.

' list revving, about six o'clock, the I..wough of Smith.
work was thrown into the ritingst terror and corduroy, by
II
the explosion of • steam engine on the premises of Mr.
Smitherman, a sawyer of mahogany and other wood, in
Wbite.atreet, Borough ; the report was as fond us the froing
of a cannon. anal hundreds, nay, we may say thonsands, were
drawn to the spot in a very short time, it being reported
that several persona were killed and wounded under the ruins.
The explosion was caused, we are ioforrned, by the en-
gine being overcharged, the power put upon it being treater
than the strength of the copper, and the copper was blown
ta fact almost incredible) the distance of three hunched
yards, upon the roof of a warehouse four stories high (where
it is now to he seen!, which it damaged considerably. The
engirieJsorise, and 01/111P of the premises artjoiniag were
blown down, anal scares ly one brick left upon another.
Mr. Smitherman, the owner of the premises, was taken out
of the ruins in a dangerous slide, and conveyed on • bed 10
St. Thomas's Hospital; and slim fly after his son, a youth
about fifteen years of age. was taken alp and carried to Guy's
Hospital dreadfully scalded all over lie, face, neck, and lower
parts of his body. The ruins look fire, and I persons
were suspected to he under thew. A tine stout young
man, of the name of Strarhau, who was on the premises at
the time the lamentatrie cillerit happened, was taken not
of the ruins—his heart wen shattered to the most horrid
manner, Isis body lacerated anal scalded, and be died on the
way 141 St. Thomas's Hospital, where the hotly lies. A buy
named Smith, row of St. George's set ..... I boys, Mho was on
the premises, playing with Master Sinithermais at the time of
the explosion, was taken 11411 of the ruins awl died woo
after in St Thomas's Hospital. Another man, named Stone,
who, we are informed, wu for meth' a 'mak. y at the
Marshaltea Prison, was so severely iiijureil that ;1,. life is
deapalrell 1w was carried on a shutter to one of the
Hospitals. Another man, ironed Holmes, was sernoisly
injured from the explosion.

14W Evrru,MENCR.

COURT OF CHANCF.RY, I.IMCOT.3I.ft
TeronAY, Aran. 27.

BURLINGTON ARCADE.

ODE! L and oTtiwum u. I.t, no CAf¢ltDllf►
HERON, and trrii!'ll.l.
Thtb WAS • Mutton, nil of the Pleitoteffo.
to re►t►atn the I), feud ,ns. If ero,t, I r..4n 0pe0i,.4

a public pab..aue IVepterit
the rest Ede of Botol-.treet, llt t se littrltogt

strearle.—[For the l'lll:llin.;HW:eil.4 •h:. alp. 11
trpispired oil the limner day, it was before the
Court, see this Paper of Friday, April 2, and
Friday. the idfl
IVliTtlEltSl.l, Counsel for the ,nt.
Heron, ttli► dry res,llllkA 111. lif tliellt 3Z+ll foot time
motion. Ile said he would but trunlile

Flip 011Ortly re6llll. to Ole Celllllll.ll4lled
The bill was not tiled by dl the 'roves of the Ar.

cote, but only by tire of them. It appear-t 1 by
the pleathings that all the lessees al well as tt,e
Plaints f+ knew that it WAS intended to vrailt t. a.

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prrautis who occupied shop, oil the en.t siole of
Build-street, atiol Isecuine lesoierol of shoto it) *IS
Arcade, r pumpe from role shop it, the other. gui
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the Plaintiff, Odell, in hill amilay.t, admitted that
NIG Weir, the agent of the Di-fenclaiit, gore him
that tilfer, winch he refus-d, not for the limo,"
live of the family and servants of the liersopw• ti• co-
pying them, but that tierroari resortiti4 ii•ii• %hop
mtglit have a free passage into the uthrr, for the

mutual accommodation of both shop..
The Loau Ciuset:Lhon.—" The 131Wrttill; do
not (11.ptite 014 popittoie, but theysa►y tnu hate ,'ot

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a right to make your shoo' in the Arcade a ;intone
passage form the Wrvern Exchange, so as to Mill
it into a Kung'. It:glossy."
Nis'. WETLIERELL said, they did not contend
that it WO to be used as a public highway; but
suppose the Plateitiff, Odell, who is et eviler of
gold lace. had two sloops. and an officer easier into
that in Bond-street, with two or three brother of
firers. to make a purclutte. and they wanted iogo
auto the Arcade, would he say. " You, Sir, Oat
have made the purchase may go into the Arcade.
hut your brother officer' must return through the
Road-street door ?" end if they want to go lute the
Arcade they must enter into it by the Piccadilly or
Itulrigten-garden entr.dice. It would he the
•a me ease with a mother accompanying her daughter
to make a purchare.
The 1.01110 CHANCELLOR" DO they go so fur
Ss to ray, if II person intends to purchase, that I
must by iiijneiction rest.ain him from gull% from
one piece to the other ?"
Mr. WIITIIRRELL—u I understand not ; but I
would thaiik them in inform roe how is no nitro&
ell purchaser to be known—is it by carryings err.
tniis B.lg in his hood. or we.iriiig e m wit ?"—The
Lemurs{ Couwel then raid, he hut looked through
the affidavits with a great deal of attention, run he
could not see soy ground for the foreseen upplicas
tion. There wee a proper person ;dared at the
passage coinplaseeed of, to prevent soy improper
persons going from the Ateude into the &reborn:l..,
and vies terse; they called it a puhhc passage;
but how did they describe it ? Air of co lief onetime
was trained, it would be no infreligenretit of it for
a purchaser, or the frieud of a purchaser, to go
thi ongh Ilse passage.
The LOUD CIIANCELLOII...." Or a person that
looked like a purchaser."
Mr. WETURBALL" Then they ask to enjoin a
person from doing en act winch they vaiiiien de-
fine."

The LORD CIIANCELLOR—" Dn you contend
for the right of passage (ruin the Exchange *tutu the
Arcade, when the 111111111 south entliioces of 'he
Ateade err shut at inght ? If not, although
not know what the Arcatliaiis sell, I cannot see how
they can be ii,poed by any thing that will I)ring, a
greater nimiller of pet-twos to view their shops."
Mr. W ETH Llt I LI. said the Plaintiff, did not com-
plain of that, but they preteided to say that they
drested that dewed:dittos might he committed on
their property, when the mirth and south dome
were closvd l;y the meats' of this foissegr. In
answer to that lie would only say, ilia the Arca-
dians had it right to shut these dots when they
Irked, after %%inch there would he no use in the
Defetidaots keertig their passage open, for persona
passm4 lido the Aicade could not get out. lie
would then hiss Lordship's attrition to a legal
question, which was, ti:at if every Plaiuttif oh the
record, and evety shopkeeper in the Ascade, knew
before they became lessees that the shops to timid.
street were to be allowed to hate • door into the
shops in the Arcade, was the contract then such
that Lord George Cavendish could he restrained
from gruntmg a het iese to the defendant. Deroi.; for
his dour ? The contractor lease did ant refer to stir
plan for the iegulation of the doors of the Atict.ile.
His Lordship would recollect when this applicsitort
was first made, it was allowed to stand over Ds havg
the contracts and leases between Lord George
Cavendish and his lessees stamped.
The LORD emoNcLiama—“ You may leave
the lease out of the question, for the hill was
on the els( of Mardi, and I see the leases weir I,t.t
executed mail the 7:h of April."
Mr. WETIII6RI'4L said. that the origioul plan
might have been lutist there were to be oolv two en-
trances into the passage of the Arcade, hot for io.
stoner, if a builder 111..drE1001( to 1100,(1 lo..oses
street, on a direct use, he would lint that
builder had goi.e front the otigiii.ll
there should happen to be a cruse street in the lona
of the building..
The LORD CHANCELLOR—I' I wirleratand thr
Plaintiffs . that L snit (;. Unteiiiiish is eidiri,,,t
to give a house lur a door to admit potions finds
the EV:biog.. to ilia All'.l.le, alto are poirchaseii.
or mu, tot: • 1;11110111Ntl• ; but it it prewar liessva
It the Etta hange into the Arcade, and to t,oitig
wit of either the north or south, etitionee of it,
without purrhising, that 1 AM t! I-Ird on is `rant
an wjuuaucn to peeves t bat person to go oil lay
lawful cello as thouvgli t tiler id these entrii-i • e.
(1 to ob;ige hunt to t. two it‘• rat ...1
FOlrlidogr *tutu Bood-stt.. t. If mat us the case, 1
tv II grain sob •wcti toyunctio..."
'llw Sotatir onskil s.SI ELIA 1. slate.'. that the Dr-
ft Heron, had Ira itse shop hr I.rd taints in
the Arcata.. alter hr hod hikes( the passage swill.
t•i. If 1.
MI WETtIIifiLLI. Said, it 1/1111 tries that strictly

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