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EASE INDIA HOUSE, Eltrronis 9, ISi2.
/CIE COURT f DlREcroits of the
I UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG.
LAND, trading to the E AST INDIES, de hereby yire
Notkt,

That the Court will he ready to moire Proposal, is
writing, on or before W:ED?iESDAY, the elth November
mat, from the OWNERS of SHIPS of the Burden of
1.800 Tennant! tipwards, bitildere measurement, rpecifying
the RATE of FREIGII F as which they may he willing to
I.ET sorb SHIP for ON E VOYAGE to CHINA in the
Cumpaay's Service.
The Tenders, with the words "Ship Tender" ou she
cover, to be severally sorted up and left with the Secretory
at sir before Twelve o'Clork at Noon on the said fish
amber sitzt,after veliteh hour no Tender will be received.
PETER AURER, A nt Secretary.
The Particular, of the• Terme and Cundiliona upon which
the Ships will be engaged for the Cnmp ray's Se, vice, may
be hail upon application at she °like ..f the Clerk to the
Committee of Shipping, us or after Monday next, the 11th
instant.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
Esiabhaled by Ruyal Charier in the Reign of Xing George
the First.

September, 1822.
PERSONS. whose Annual Premiums (lue
on the 29th Instant, are hereby infurraed, that Receipts
sre now ready to be delivered at the Company's Offirts,
aver the Royal Eac►asße sad is Pall-mall, as well as by
their respective Ajtsts is the several Comities; ■id *be
Parties assured are requested to apply fur the Renewal of
their Policies me or before the 14th of October next, as the
usual Fifteen Days allowed fur Payment, beyond the DAM 44
each Policy, will Olen expire.
SAMUEL PENNING, Jun. Secretary.

•f Attendarmv M given, daily. at the said Offices, for
the Amaraate of Bat Wings, Gouda, Merehaudiser, and
Mips, is Harbour, is pork, or while buildieg, from Luse
or Damage by Fire; mad also fur the Assurauce uf, and
graining Annuities me, Lives.

N.B.—Fire Policies will be issued free of Expense to the
Assured, where the Missal Premium amounts to 61. or
upwards.

FORMVI TRADE OF THE COUNTRY.

[Coreladed fro■ oar Paper of yesterday.)

The 'unites pilotage your CuresNiue* Lowe also adverted
Sp ; sus itini their recuntweatlation coallhiss itself l• She it.
duction of the sespease of Collect «i4/necessarily
capswitruesi„ cad the total reduction of it in all *Cedes le whirl)
• (ureic* Power shall cameo, and actually extesd to the
ikilish ship the 11311114, &downtimes is animals of the country.
io respect to the payment of cherges,as are afforded to the
active shipping.

With respect to the Trinity dues, which are so compli-
cated and various, it would be desirable that the) should
be henceforth consolidated, sod one charge muds wider that
brad, fur bouyage, beaming', loadmsnage, ■nd printage.
That the rate in future should be established on all British
and over-sea us& rs and foreign vessels, on the condition
above stated, entering and departing from the port of Lon-
don, at one penny per ton, according to their registered ton-
nage ; such duties to he received ■t the Trinity Bosse or
Custom House, mud applied according to the tenor of the
Charters. Grants, and Acts of Pediment, to the maltase.
fiance and repair of buoys and beaeotts, and the surplus to
the increase of the charitable funds of the Corporation.

Referring to the general slate of the accounts of the Tri-
nity House, your Committee see no advantage from so large
• balance of cash remaining in the hands of the Secretary,
front which an annual I profit of 51101. is derived, and there-
fore submit t►at it should be discontinued ; conceit log the
use of public hilauees to be the worst form in which remu-
neration for public service can be made. And, in addition
to the reductions mentioned, they have (artier to recommend,
that the accounts of this body, in the same as those
of the Irish and Northers Light Commissioners, and Liver-
pool Light Nooses, Reinstate and Dover Harbour, should,
in • detailed manner, be ily laid before Parliament,
within sin weeks after lba commencement of each Session.

It has been represented to your Committee that great in-
: convenience and dissatisfaction arises from the variety of
rates levied fu► different Lights, and that great advastage
would be the conseqrseece of an equal rate, and the charge
being the same fur each Light (wit► an 'Airlift°, for the
Floating Lights) os all veserelA pepsin them, according to
their respective descriptions, making the charge on what
are termed over-sea traders, double the charge on coasters
and Irish traders; forties vessels to be chargeable at the
same rate as over-sea traders, eseept in cases where British
ships shall sot, in respect of charges, be placed Epos a foot
tag of reciprocity in Ile ports of each countries to which
such Whigs vessels may revretively belong; in which
the charge on the foreign ship to be double is manual of that
ow the British. That the charges un all over.sea traders foe
Light Duties shall in future be one farthing per ton, and ma
coasters arid Irish traders one eighth a* peony per ton, be-
Mg a dismosetioa of fall sac half of the present rates; arid
that the ships importing coals and calm from Wales
should be is this erspeet pot on the lame footsug as them
importing them from the ports of Northumberland and
Durham.

The expenses of maintaining the Floating Lights being
particularly heavy, your Committee propose that an extra
charge of one farthing per ton should be made upon all Bri-
tish over-sea trailers and foreign vessel* passing the same,
the latter subject to the conditions berme expressed; and
no char;:c fur Light Duties in any rase to be made, either
prospectively or relF"P"livelYs but cookie, to the
lar voyage either oat or home is which the vessel may be
engaged.
A calculation of the receipt, according to that principle,
his hem made, to which has been added, a statenseut of the
view arcordeug to which your Committee recommend the
whole of the receipt, disbursement, and expeuiliture of the
Corporation of the Ti inity Ileum, should in future be regu-
lated ; *abject at all times to future revision, when the cha-
ritable disbursement shall have been reduced in the manner
hereinafter proposed, within the amount of the fonds di-
rected by the authority either of Acts or Charters, to be ap.
phi ci to sorb disbursements. The calculation annexed to
this Report has Bern made upon such a scale as to •frurd
ample means for the ossintenance of the Lights; leaving
sash a surplus as would nut cooly be sufficient to satisfy the
preeent amount of charitable appropriation, but providing •
liberal fund for the various estahlialiment• under the TrititlY
House, soil the contingencies belougiug to them, as well as a
fair remuneration for the various services of assuagement
and supervision performed by the 'Klieg elder brethren, and
the ...likens of the Corporation. It proceeds on the suppo-
sition, that she vaeaucies occasioned by death among the
pensioners dependant us these charities shall nut be filled
up, until the demands fur them me reduced within the
amount of the produce of duties strictly appl'eable to the
relief of poor manacle, Ste. lacing about MOO/. per annum,
arid that the surplus fund shall be allowed progressively to
increase, until it shall have attained arch an amount as may
affusd to the public • farther reduction of the Light Dues,
and other Dues now payable to the Corporation, soul assist
them in the means of !birdliming the interests of individuals
in the private Lights, soil is the lienefieial leases which have
beim granted by the Corporation, by which •Il the Light
eetalsislilkenta might be eventually brought under the ow-
auJ management of the Curputatiou of the Trinity
Home.

Your Committee will now submit to the Howie the rata-
'alio& they hare made, showing the probable amount of
Light Duties at a reilec.d rate; the permanent as well as
estimated imewase of the Corporation, according to the docu-
ments returned to them, together with the best estimate they
can ("nu of she rharg.s and expenditure attending the main-
tenance of the Lights sailer their snsaagemeat ; the pro
vision for the establishment, and the charities which their
forecasts have supported.
The Amount of Tonnage which has pooled the
Lights hereafter described, smite the immediate
usaaagemeal of the Trinity Corporation, according
is. as official Return, delivered 30th M■y, 18r1, fur
tbe year 1821, vig,—
. _

Flambee', Spurs Well, Foyk ft'
ens, Hai.lyre', Lowesto,
Soak, Galloper, Goodwin, Owes., Neelllea, Po, (land, Cu.
ken', ' Lezerol, Stilly, Milford, Lowly, Bardrey,
South Stark, .uJ she None,

-
•
Tuns. t. a. d.
Over-on, British Tontine - 13.943.„:33.3
Ditto • romp ditto - 2,928,570

15,973,9'13
at oar farthing imr 'fur, is 16,618 6 8
Confers - 83.197,935 Tons.
lisbli 3,1119,159

27,187,211
at half I farthing per Tan, a 14,180 0 0
Produce of the Kral Light Hoare. of Rklr.
ford, Air, and St are, after deducting the
cm roses of the maintenance, nut 'winding
commission, fur the jeer 1881, as per Mate.
meat delivered in - 380 0 0
Arnow's of Tensaw of Vessels which have
pissed the Flanging Lights Airfoil the '
)e As. 1521 (qui including Collie's our

Cosatero, whit+ e.e to be exempt howl
the folluwtog extra char`.),
British. Foreign,
Tom. Too..
porn Floating Light - 12.745 38 994
Well . 324,538 • 114,767
Illaisbro' - - 338,307 132,096
Lowestoft - n 343,133 134 392
Sorb and Galloper - 380.741 138,202
Goodwill - . 1.057,404 166 059
Owen - - 1,059,653 199,761
Note .' - 645,975 93.621
---
British 4,173,787 - 4,173,787 1,026,620
Foreign - 1,026,810

1,111 - 5301,587 Tons.
at one fatiblog, is - 5,417 15
-.-
30,570 I II
Dednet.Coarailasiao se lie teNretiaa, lee pre
cent., allow iiirr for exiraordinary exproses of
rullreliou at snare Purls beyond sobers, on
18,118/. - 5914 8 0
Lad 21 per crag. tro the residue 457 4 0

1,371 IS 0

35,204 9
' OTHER SOURCES OF INCOME.
Permanent Income of the Coe.
"oration derived front Rentals
and Capital Stuck, amounting
to about - £lO,OOO 0
Net Produce of Belaatage, the
1,000/. appropriated to Chari-
table purifies being allowed
for \reeler: er - 3,000 0
Net pruduce ig the Trinity duties
on British sad Poieiga ships,
takes at as average of the last
five years aceordiag to the ac_
coasts rendered - 8,000 0 0
Net receipt of betoys tad bes.
cone is Yariaisath, Tees, sad
sad Exeter, as per account
rendered . - 1,700 0 0
Assail rental of six leased
Lighthouses - 0 0
Interest on Capital Stock funded,
arising from sib phis pilotage',
under the Std Geo. 111. about 9,500 0 0
Animist of fees ander the sense
Act, for renewing the
licenses of Trinity Pilots is
Landow - • 1,100 0 0
Profits upon boating balances of
cash of the Corporation, bi•
therto enjoyed as a perquisite
by the Secretary - SOO 0 0
26,098 0 0

Total locoing - 62,132 8 8

CHARGE.
Mainlessee, of tOLight ertehllishments,
Barthey Set secluded, which was
osly exhibited in December last; cal-
entered wit► reference loan improved
eyAesn sf malostesanee, and proper
ecoeomy its the disbursements, ac-
cording to a comparative estimate,
framed upon the priaciple of the
eusiut of the Scotch Lights, the
average expense of which is 650/.
sash; takiiig, therefore, the 20 Lights
at the same rate of allunance, will he 13,000
Allowance for extraurdinary espouse of
maintaining the Edystune . 560
Extra allowaere for Ike meant
nine Roane, Lights, iat 3501. each - 3,150
This total allowance for t►e =aisle.
nonce of the Lights under the Tri-
nity Corporation (except Bards?,
sod she four local light. of St. Bee.,
Air, Usk, sad Bideford), beteg
WV. 10s. for ac► Light establish.
suers - - 16,850
Allowance to the Elder Brethren of the
Trinity Hone., as Salaries, viz.
Deputy Master - - £5OO
Twenty Acting Elder Brethren,
at 3001. each - 6,000
Extra Allnwasee Is eac► of the
Chairmen, for the time ►wine,
of the Commillees,•ix at 1011/.
eac► - . 500
Expense of Establishment wpm
Tower Hill, including Serre.
tory sad Clerk. Salaries,
Hutch. epiag,lllll4 verities Com.
tiagericies . - 3,000
Allowance fur the Trinity Yacht,
as per ►lr. Court's evideore,
expense per annum 750
Allowasee for carrying the Pilot
Act into execution in Loudon
aid Graveszod 200
- 10,950
Anisouet of Charimble Appropri.
otiose, Pension., Allowsnces,
Red Craton ies, as per Account
rendered . . 30,354
Amount of Pepsins. sod
awes to Beil.4llllllPlll, their
Wives, Widows, Children, and
Orphans . . 1,000
Allowance for umlaut Repairs of
Almshouses . 1,000
- 32,354

50,054 0 0

Surplus Income beyond Expenditure - 2,170 it
To be added,
Amount of Extra Cowiributieme fur Lirlet
Duties by Fercigu Ships, .abject to a reduc-
tion, as sows as the Countries la which sorts
Ships shall respectively belong shall place
B b Ship. is their Purl. upon a fueling
of reciprocity is regard to charges or the
same.
Female tonnage
is 1821, which
pawed the Tone, f. a.
Lights - 2,928,740, at 3,050 0
Duo, Floating.
Lights - 1,028,820 O. 1,072 10
. -

4,022 10 0
1141 the Amount of the estimated Inutile on
Bordsry Light, which was Iwo eishibite4 in
December, 1821, calculated with refertnee
to the homage which hes posited tb. South
Stack Light to 1821, cud allowing 850 i. for •
it. illesialesalite, upon the I.ko and acme
priuriple as the other Lights - 080 0 0
Allow fur the Commission on the Private
Lights nod other Dues, rec. rwoeuded to he
in lutare collected at the Trinity House 700 0 0

Yielding a surplus, according to the
estimate upon reduction of rates 0,900 19

iril.2 —The 4,01// We. cannot be considered a• perm.
semi, b. it% subjeet to a icductiva if furrigs

iftweirie• Owe Braid sbies of the same Gotiog
sill' theii owe.

The outwits of charitable appropriations, under the au-
thority of the Acts, Patrols, and Grows and Charters, stay
Amount, aceurdiug to the receipt, calculated by the Returns
of 1021, to about 10,000/. per animas, which, as will begets,
Ist year rest-hell the large sum of 322611.
From the appropiation of 1113,9001. must be dedneled •
proportisa of tl. expellee of the establohniest of the Trinity
House, bring • charge opal the receirorbich, estimated at
one-thud of the sum allowed for t►e 'aisle establishment on
.hat accusal, would be 3,04)01., and deducted from the
10,000 f., lepers the amount of speaks' charitable appropria.
Bun about 13,0001. per annum.
ii to priapism' that the presets. assasal ofeharitable tint.
inisiesnent, exceeding by one-half what stay be considered s
applicable under eitydistiset Bribe/ay to but purpose, shall
but be increased, bat be suhject to a progressive reductioe,
until the misount shall have bees brought within the amorat
eroded to he collected sell applied modes the several Char-
ters, Acts, and Groats above refevied le, wad each reduction
shall he progressively effected according to the redaction to
the nnstb.retf the present atmuitsats and pessioners,
is the coarse of nature takes plate : hence it will follow, that
the remaining 16,354?, exclusive of the surplus receipts be-
yond the expeedsture, according to the estimate made, wilt
become a fund available to such perpows, as may be here-
after cousidered beneficial to the shipping interests of Ws
country ; the most desirable of these appears to your Com-
mittee, to be the purchase of the interests of individuals is
the private and leaped light,, and the placing of them under
the management of We Trinity Corporation, a uwasnee essen-
tial to the establishment of a general warm of rates, and the
equal redact los of the light den, both on British aad Foreign
shipping, to We stunner suggested to the former part of the
Report. Feeling ibis, and adverting to the amount of the
sairplus funds now in the puainaion of the Corps:kr-altos, aris-
ing partly from the collection for lights, sad partly frost the
surplus pilotage, they are of opinion that a propaition of this
accumulation might be awfully applied, as opportunities oc-
cur, to the purpose above stated, which they strongly reefs,.
steed. These purchases, as well as other applications, to bs
made with the approbstios of the Privy Council.
It is proposed that the whole of the light aad other duties,
Ramsgate and Dover Harbour dues, which shall be payable
is London, be received by the Trinity Corporation at the*
office on Tower-hill, and that ti per cent. should be allowed
for the collection, of shirk !bey will have the advantage, sod
which most be taken Situ the accouut ; its additiou to this it
is remarked, that in the opinion of many of the witnesses who
have been examined, the diminution of the light duties •aJ
discentisosace of the present mode of charge, will have than
of of considerably increasing She number of foreign we,-
eels resorting to our ports, by which these receipts will be
further itegmented.

The amount of reduction proposed in the chsrce for hol-
iest to Foreiga ships, which it is proposed shall be toads
equal with that on British ships, sway be compensated by the
redaction is the expense of the establishment, as esteemed
by the Committee. The whole osanageseut of the billattsge
is under • separate deportment, and regulated by a parti-
cular Act of Parliament.
RAMSGATE HARBOUR.
•

Your Committee neat directed their iTsquiry to Ramagatia
Harbour, earl the does collected fur support of it, whirls
are of an amount sufficient to press heavily epos the shipping
sad eemonerce el the country; and which bare been • cause
of actions complaint on the part of British and Foreign ship-
owners, nor, I• the opinion of your Committee, without jos:.
tiers The charge is namle on all ships, above • °emits seet•
nage, that nosy pass, whether to the east or west side of the
Sand, altlsongh matey by their size and draught of eater are
precluded front entering the harbour; and a practice hart
prevailed in regard to Foreigim ships, of exacting • payment
upon ships capable of entering, at a rate arnomitiag to
doable that on British ships of the same description, and upon
those which are unable to enter, about 400/. per cent. more,
both prospeetimly and retrospectively. The management
of Ramagate Harbour has, by several Acts of Parliament
(continued mid enlarged by the Sath George 111. c. 74), het n
placed ueder Trustees, from whom a Committee°, Direction
is chosen, ermsiating of the Chairman and Deputy Chairmen
for the time being, with the aJditiou of the Depot y Master a
the Trinity House; these are elected by ballot, at a general
meeting of the Trustees annually held; 3001. are taken an-
nually from the foods, aad divided amongst the members of
the Committee, by whom the business I. dose. The Trotters
hold as alma, misting at Ramagate, where a building fur
that purpose has been erected.

In London a boase is also provided for the monthly meet-
ings of the Committee, where a permanent establishment is
kept up. The rates established by Act of Parliament are,
opus British ships passing the harbour, three peace per tun,
it ender 300 toes; one peesy per ton, if above 300 tons;
sod, if laden, the owners are authorised by the Act to rec►ive
the ansimet payable for the voyage from the proprietors of
the cargo. The rates upon Foreign vesicle, whether pa..iag
to the eastward or to the westward of the Goodwin Saud, mrc
sixpence per ion, if sailer 300 lona ; and fuer pence per toil,
if above 300 tone; which dues have been, till lately, col-
lected from Foreign Irene!. passing from foreign port to
foreign port, prospectively and retrospectively. Bet since
the subject has been under inquiry, your Committee have
been infinmed, that orders have been given for Ibis practice
to be discontinued, which they mention with satisfaction,
(nine having regime to believe that a subject of great dim,-
listectioe will thereby be removed.

Uncles the Act of the 3td George 111. c. 74, end 37th
George 111. c. 86, nesters of Fort ifs ships arriving with
cargoes for a British port, are authorised to reimburse
themselves from the consignee or proprietor. The rates pay.
able ender that Act were three-pence per len ; but the Act
of
5S George 111., which augmented the rate to sixpence
per too, is silent as to the recovery front the owners of the
cargo ; so that the rale by that Act is raised 100 per cent.,
and the right of reimbursement from the cargo no lumps
expressly continued. By the same Art the Moslem bass •
discretionary power of lowering the sate., and the monks
collected are directed to be applied towards ealsrgiog, build-
ing, finishing, maintaining, supporting, and improving the
harbour, and in defrayisg all other expenses which shall be
incurred in carrying the Act into execatici.
Your Committee have already adverted to the exaction
of • duly from morels fur the support of the harbour, which,
under no cucuosatances, they are capable of entering.
The preamble to sue of the Acta before mentioned amigos,
as the reason fur imposing • rate epos vessels of this sle•
seriptio•, that, as the harbour provides steelier for small
vessels, it will have the effect of •fforeliog more room for
ships to ride in the Demos ; and it csamot be denied, that to
a certain extent, thee benefit is derived from it ; whew •
gale of wind sets in from the south-west, sad es of say cues-
timeline., the member of chips which collect in the Downs
is said to be occasionally very great, mid at certain mamma
becomes such as to reader the anehorage unsafe. In
such cases vessels of a moderate Mae seek shelter in Rams-
gate Harbour, mid so far the larger ships receive 'diluting*.
Bet whatever the advantages may be, they do net appear Si.
your Committee equivalent to she heavy bordive metalled
upon the shipping by which they are purchased ; and
therefore submit to the roasiderstion of the Horse theory*-
, ideescy of discontinuing the rate open all ships Ismail Hai
Menage which the harbour is capable of admitting, %astral.,
o(300 toss and upwards, the amount of rates on chick
eeriest:op the return for the year 1820, is about 11,154121. pee
seetite. The imposition of • duty, to which Om. Art hos
subjected all ships Oat, en the course of mmigation tomb
foreign port to foreigo port, must oil/soot/ably pees aegis
gate, bet,-do sot •sbroaeli it, ofieettrer possum to the east-
ward or the westward of Giseelitio awe* is wavy 'elospelos.
Able. It could over be Wooded that a *teeigu gimp etkl,',ll
from Rotterdam to Calais should be liable to tke tilamixace
Harbvur does; Mete, however; are eainertt, sad rime 5