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h the first Report promoted by this Committee, allusion
was mad* to virmos bowlegs that appeared to perms upon
the na►igation and commerce of the country, soder the de•
nominations of Lights, Harbour Dues, Pilotage, Ike.; and,
although the intention of your Committee to examinee obese
•oder their several heads, .a. polli poticil, by the interposition
of matters that seemed to require swore immediate attention,
your Committee felt motions, a t as early a period its possible,
to take op the consideration of them, from a conviction
that they nut ouly were metiers of importance in themselves,
but that their importune* was greatly augmented by their
relation to other meastorea, by which it was hoped to extend
the Foreign commerce of the country, to the soirees, of which
the diminution of the charges, both on our own shippinr,
and thorn of Foreign States visiting our coasts, woe an laths.
reusable preliminary.

To these subjects, therefore, your Committee, upon its rip.
paintnivnt 111 the present Session, applied its attention ; fad
set. art; , as the first objects of their iuvestigation, the Light
Dues, Trinity Dues, fbaltastsge, Surplus Pitons, sod ilse
Itastegat• awl Dower .Harbuer Dues, which formed, in their
aggregate, she principal part of the berdees alluded to, mud
which (welshed grounds of rumplatet, in ttiv;r bearing both
on (knish sod Foreige shipping, as well on account entre
amount to which they were levied, as the manner in which
the Ivey of them was made.
The points to which the attration of your Committee has
been ilirrcted, in their coasideration of these dues, were, the
nohow), wider which payniews were exactor! (min British
and Foreign skipping; the amosnit to which they were ex.
acted; the piorpwes to urinal receipts were subserviently sip.
piled, mud tbe means :dialled of effecting a redeetiun of

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them, webs, Injury to the public objects fur which 'hey
mare imposed.
These does, your Commillee have (ohm!, are collected in
part murder She authority of Ants of Parliament, to meet by
modem ensione, but to tee greatest amount under particol.r
pesetas imuiog (rein the Crown.
by the former authority have heen established the Dower
sad Itasnagate Llaitionr does, the charges fur Pilotage, for
anilastage, and She dues in the port of Lowden, mad the
Wits coder the enenagement Of the Northern Celeste-
alums, sweetilitied exportsly fur ibis purpose. By the
same sathority. glen, have been established • Part of 114'
Lights eider the jorirdiellon of the Trimly Corporation.
TIM remainder, as well at the esiatillshisents of Lights etc_
*frilly so Carious parses( the coast, greeted to individuals,
are established and maintained under the authority of patrols
from the Crow's. In the Art. respecting lights, as also it.
ibit respective patentor, are *el forth the reasons file erecting
each particular heist, and the seems to be toilette,' an ship.
pie& for the purpose of dcfrayieg the espouses of creates
sod Maiatainirts It.
As the greatest proportion of the light dam, is Combo,
with other dime of inferior namont ley;cd upon Armrest. is
collected said roltniniatered by the Corps:ethos of lee Trinity
House, your Committee lessee less led u inquire late the
, omoliontems aml objects of this tossetent mid resoertabie CAW-
• potbser tbs tersis meigeed to it, mid the mammy its wbt
Weft Melee bare hero fulaSed.
It appear., th:d sr eat ly as the reign of Ilearf
alltiOtiOO ezisle,l, eoresistaug, as it is termed, of shipmen told
llMariners, for Use limpets* of piloting ships and vow. is be.
-Isergiag to the Crown, ait eel as all descriptions of merchant
ships; bell what remuneration was received for 114 i. service,
sad *hot, if airy proportion of it lA, assigned to charitable
purposes, does out appear. •
I• the reign of King Henry VIII. the Society was first W.
empneated by a Hose' Charter, bearbig date the 1195110 f 611 m,
11114, granted to the shiptuesi and mariners of the realm,
Siring thorn to erect and establish a guild or (ra-
le:gaily, 8e well ul men •• of worms,. is the ravish church of
Depfwd Stroud, io the county of Kelm : the charier pro
riled ter the doe governiasent of the guild, and custody of
its possessiort, by aortae power so the brethren to appuiet a
Isnater, warden, and assistants, It gave powers to make Its.
sod Maisie@ 111111011Z4I themselves, for the relief, Werease, and
augmestatios of the shippiag of Euglaerd, to levy pates, sub-
sidies, Oct.*. offe oiler 1, to the master,warden, mid assialaala,
• sad their soceessurs, to acquire land. aril teineuieols to a
certain amount, to mainisier a chaplain, Ned to do and per-
' form Giber acts •f piety, sad so the community generally to
enjoy all the franchises and privilege@ shipown mid maritime
of the realm have word and enjoyed.
This charter received socceiisive roofirmations by Edward
the Lath, Quetta Mary, soil Queen Lintel.). th. IN the Act
of am Mb of Queen filizabeih,.after a preamble, recijing
the object of Si. incorporation of the Society, and its duties
of (mend sopervision of the buoys, beacons, sod ballast.
age, It is enacted, that the Corporation of the Trinity House
may, at their owe cost, make, erect, sad set up any beacons
sad signs fur the sea, out arch phee• of the sen-aliore, or
uplands mar the sea-coast, or furrlands of the sea, truly for
sea-marks, am to them shall seem meet. The Aet goes oa to
make it peaal to disturb those marks, sad oler atillserlata
the master to license onetime, to row on the Thames. la
the year 1094 Quern Elizabeth granted to the Coeporatioe
the lastage sod ball:siege of all vessels upon the river
Thames, surreardertil for the purpose by the then Lord
High Admiral, Lord Howard, together with all the rights
held by him in view* of isle office, ut making, placing, sod
lag buoys, lagers, and beacons fur the ma, with all fees
sad adventeges thcetuitio beloegteg. This was followed by
• chaster from her successor, James the First, whirls is
grounded alma deficit in preceding patents •11,1 grants, and
the wart of a enelleiret authority to gemmed themselves, and
aMM ime sedfariag men and oppreaticelej.and directs, rtsi
from the guild shall be sleeted wee master, furor wardens, sad
eight ersieliasio. These 13 persuse are directed to diet 1$
other persona to be added to the guild, out of the whole com-
pany of seamen and mariners, making together 31 periwig;
the successor, of whom are tube called elder brethren, and all
the rest of the seamen and mariner. belonging to the goad, sod
their successors, to be called younger brethren. Sorb was the
constitution of the Corporation outer the charter of James
the Fins; and such its form at the precut day. The
Journals of the Haute of Commons contain army entries re-
lating to the Corporation, to which reference is made in the
years 1443, 1644, sail 1647; in which list year the chat her of
lames was dissolved, the members disperind, and the ma-
nagement of the sinus of the Corporation our transferred
to a Select Committee, and by that Committee was conducted
till the year 1649, when the serving members of the corpo-
ratism reassembled and acted jolt's!, Huth she Committee
after which Parliament nominsted a master and • secured
wanks (use being still sueviviag), and filled Op the number
of wardeus, 'sandarac, and elder brrthreo. The Restoration
followed ; sail, is the course of a few months after the re.
tars of Charles 11., the chaster of the Corporation was re.
sewed. By this Charter the Mace( Albemarle was (teetered
master, fester wardens were appointed, the deputies and as-
sistant, transeA, sad the rums of election described ; by it
also is granted to the Corporation the power of appointing
and regulating Pilot@ and hoademen i•to sad on t of the fl err
Thames ; and all ancient profits, ditties, and dues, 'Arch al
any time before, by lawful ueage, prescrip.bn, or custom,
they had tereived or taken by *ay of Lnadniailaze, or Pi-
lotage, are reeled itt the guild, the amount of which is de-
scribed to be, fur Loselmanage or prlotage,4*. in every 90e.;
la. in every les ; Sit. for every 6s. ; and 2.1. fur priding',
for every mass who shall serve as a marruer, and Winn into
Ilie river Thames or port of London. In prescribing the ar.
plicatioa of the rectal„ receipts arising nutter the grants
made, it say., 1e They Flllll he to the site and commodity
' and profit of the said go ild,frateruit y, or brotherhood, soil
for the purposes of repair tug of the Trinity Iluu-e and Aims.
bosses, suit for the budlue of certain persons, brethren, sad
the wives of brethren, of the said guild, fiaternity. Of hr..
iherhood, which are foleu Sulu decay, misery, poi erty, sad
need ; and also tm relief of other poor mariners, orscilaring
men, sash as by them or their succemors, shall be thought
meet and necessary then. wth so be relieved. _ .

Except by ihr (►orral directions in the Chiller of Uenry
the Eighth, is respect to performiott *mkt of' piclyohis es
the first p..hlic authority by *bleb the appliestifin of soy of
the receipts of the Corporation is distinctly defined and pre-
scribed.

Notwithstanding the Art of the 36th of Elisabeth, it ap-
pears that a grant ts. •I hers. mobile by letter. palest in the
year 1872, of the right of ballastage, to Colonel Carlo.,
which, having been litigated by the eurpuratioo, was sorrels-
dered nod rertoreil to them, and further (-unarmed by a grant
of King flea. les the Second, in 1675, which was intended
In put an rod to doubts respecting the soil ■ad wa,te
grounds In the river belonging; and it further grants the
rights of billasting all vg.sels passing between Loudon
Bridge slot the sea, and the fres, perquisite*, and advan-
tages thereunto lwlunging, fur the use and bent !,1 of the
poor aforesaid, sod to no other use, Weal, or purpose what-
soever.

A abort time !ain't. the demise of Charles If. the Corpora-
tion of the Trillity MINN, In imitation of many other Corpo-
rations, and in proof of their loyalty and devotion to their
Sovereign, storri.dcred joto his hands their Charter, whirls
vraa rrigvanted to them by his successor in the year 1685, mad
is the Charter guider whirls the Corporation at present enjoys
sad excretal' its PP I rights.

This Charter, after declaring the purposes of the Corpo-
►ation, appoints a Master, Wardens, and Assistants, sad
eighteen elder Brethren b,• name, prescribes the farm of
election, and ilecisres that all the test of the seamen aad
inaritsers W I•ingin4 hi the guild and fraternity, shall be
called Vomiter Brelbrer. . Amongst other dutle, it declares,
that the Masters, %Wardens, and Asaistants of the Corporation
shall examine amt certify the abilities sod fitness of Bitch
ebildrea of the :We. Royal Foundation in Christ's llo.pital,
oho are, or shall be adruiticd, and initiated into the ratters

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of the art of navigation. Theo (Mows the power of appoint-
isig Pilots sod Loadsenen iii mid out of the river, subject so
the approval of the Lord High Admit-11. The grant of the
sioricat fettle( loadidanare and Prentice., as defined by the
Charter of dairies ii.; the power of holding Courts fuf the
affairs of the Corporation ; and after declaring that the pro-
d(' of the Court are to he kept to and for the nee of the Cot-
porm ton , Lir the better maintenance and ;reservation tin,• f;
prescribes by a subsrquest section, "tetra all snore of money
s mitred by derives, orders, agreecients, fines, and fit felt u res,
or otherwise, Ike. shall be for the wee of the gnilit, for ic-
poiriog Ilse Trinity House and Alms Houses situate in
l)epfteed %frond, and for finding of certain poor person.,
lierthren, and the wives of brethren of the said guild, which
%hail helve fallen into decay, misery, poverty and need. or
hereafter shall femme to fall into decay, misery, poverty,
and iiee.l, and also fbr relief of other poor "mailers and et a-
f.irtug men. and other !misfit purposes."
It miriade* with confirmiug a former exemption to the
Master, %Venires, sod Assistants of the Corporation from the
wericaed Ike militia timid various civil dutiel, arid giving
Owes powers ill certain eases therein specified.
Ceder Heim Charters, the only erumies granted In the
Corporatism appear to he those arising from ballastaer and
haslet sad by drover, order', agreentente, finea, rot felt ore.,
or otierrwine, the •ppliest. of which is strictly defined and
prescribed by the grant of King Chariest 11., sod the Charter
of is... lf, last adverted to, and the hallaetege since regui
loved by 4et of Parliament, 1 sad 2 George IV.
liee tiorpfis pilotage, which is a collection of extra pilot-
age on foreign marls entering our porta, is grimed by the
fild of George ill. c. SP; the produce of which is directed
by *tenth Seltlloll to be applied to the relief and support of
such Pilots as shall have become incfpable of discharging
their duty, from age, aceit'ent,nr pernistiesit infirmity.
The Act of the 2d George 111. give, the power of licensing
hosts ow the River Them, awl diverts that certain monies
received wider its authority, shall be applied towards the
relief of the poor of the Corporetiort.
By them Arts sad Charters, which give to the Corporation
the power of levying estoesies, the application of the surplus
of the monies sii levied (after providing for the necessary ex-
penditure). to charitable uses is a!ose expressly authorised
and directed.
It will he observed, that among these, the Light Dues, the
principal soot ce of the receipts of the Trinity Corporation, are
not mentioned. Of these a comparatively small part igfeol.
lent d under Amur Parliament, the remainder under patents
greeted by the Coen, upon the petition of persons offering
to pay certain sums for she erection of Lights, which dues the
Crown •utlioriaes the Corporation to receive, as • elm-
pensatiou for the erection and maintenance of the Lights me-
quired.
This is the language of all the patents, and in them, with
a single exception, uo other object whatever appears to be
gontetaplated.
Having regenerated the collections falling upon the ship-
ping of the cesatry, made under the authority of the Trinity
Corporation, as being.—.
lat. Light Dues;
2J. Lodge and Ballastage ' •
3J. Trinity Dues, comprehrnding Boom?, Beacosage,
Load ,amid Primage ;
4111. Surplus Pilotage, and Fees on the granting so
annual resew', of :`,lot Warrants ;
Your Committee will premed to notice them In their re.
'perils e eider, with sorb observations as occur either nn the
collections themselves', or on she enanegtmest and admiiiis-
tration of them. They will begin with the most important
one—that of the Light Does.
Of the various Light Hooses erected, and Floating Lights
established, for the accommodation of shipping (shoat 55 to
imember), rot less than 20 of the establishments., exhibiting
10 Litchis, are wader the management of the Corporation of
We Trinity House.
' The Acts of the Sth and 36th of Elisabeth, wh'eh gave to
the Corporation the right of erecting at their owe cost, bea-
cons, marks, and signs fur the seas, if extending to the erec-
tion of Light Houses, have never been considered as convey-
ant any power to levy • toll on shipping for their main-
tenance. The colkeiitrim fur Light Houses, therefore, het 0
love all established, either under the authority of special
Acts of the Legislature' whirls are very few in number,
or of petrels greeted ley Use Crown, founded on petition.
of individuals desiring their erection, and proposing cer-
tain payments is cousideratioss of it, shtick they the peti-
tioners cooseut to the collection of, as welt from British.
slops as those of foirign Stairs; Mese differ in •musiet
according to die respective Lights, hot are almost in every
cue double spun the foreign ship. Whatever were the
grounds of policy oil whirls this di.tioctioo was oricinally
made, the lessons for sow coollnuing it appear to your Com-
mittee to he very tesestioosble. It will hardly be contended,
ilea in the erection if Light Howes on the British coast,
there was any other view than the bewefit of British nattier,
lino, or that the cosiveMeece and safety of the foesigner,
except when emeriti( our ports fur the purposes of trade,
was an object iss contrinolatiou;-11, therefore, in pasaM4
along the sea, foreign sit/lotion may ioridentally demise
an sdvautnge from them, which it is out of our puree to ,
withhold, it dues not seem to •ffurd a eery saiisfaetogy plea
for taking the opportunity of sed.jecting it, whenever brought
within our power, to a severe taxation, at once heavy in
mount, enforced by &Initial, and aggravated by Oil exac-
tion of a prospective and retrospective payment, which has
the effect of determining foreign ships from entering our
ports for sheht r, except in caws of extreme necessity, amid
been the cause of their being frequently exposed, not only
to damage .n.I peril, but occasionally to the destrurtihn of
the vessel, lied the sacrifice of the lives of awe who we: e
unfortunate enough to be or board. That this i i the faet,
that it is in a great degree attributable to the cause shot..
stated, and the emotion of the heavy duties iithospitahly
levied In our port., from all foreign vessels, hhetheic ap-
proaching for trade or seeking shelter under stress of re.-
Sher, or accidental emergency, your Committee entertain the
strougest belief, derived from • variety of testimony ie-
reiveil by them, to which they beg especially to direst the
attrution of the Goose; and they it, this not oisly in refers.
care to the obvious cousideratins of humanity, but in se-
ference also to the actual lose sustained by the (smutty, and
the advantages that would accrue to it, partly from the is..
!OVUM il amount of duties collected, and still more from the
expenditure of foreigu ships entering the various ports of
this country, i; their arson to it was eamisraged by • diem,
nation of those charges which sow operate so poserfully to
avert it.
The first Light erected under Ilse management of theiffii.
salty House was in 1680, subsequent to the erection of leer.
cal liehts by individuals, to whom patents for she ppiguste
hail been granted by the Crown ; More this lin%, various
others have been erected, tourer which are slake spevii,l (14 ta
of Parliament.
The mode Of :ranting patents ha. bees already edibles:
to. It i. 1.1 the prayer of she Trinity Goose to' the
Crown, crouitilcd upon the petition of individuals, soliciting
the erection of a light, aril offrring the payables,' ace/tam
does fur if. maintenance, when erected. The Reuses!. wish
of the trade is presumed OH the part of Hie ('illiiil which
accordingly sotto,. ices the rrectiou of the Light, semi 114 col.
. ,: heti of the ohm proposed hunt the British lam reign
shipping, for tic estidilishmeitt sad meta ionise, of it
Your Committee du nut question the iliserekion witlileh
~ the poet of the Crown has been exercised is Thlt se ral
instances of authorising the erection of Ugh. s si, the
utility of those which have been established in Vitt ef it ;
but they feel it their ditty to rill the observations-eft Nome
to the specified perpose, for which alone the right u rvei• •
f
log duties from British or Fcreigo shipping is conceded;
namely, to compensate for the election istid osmoteurtice s f
the Lights in question. That time amount of much duties
elineld be rocieured by the necessary I xpeoditure . fur that
purpose. will not be disputed, and appears to your Col4lMli.
tee to becunfirmed by the eircunistauce of pcs sisrplesji_scept
lu ii bogie Institute) being contemplated, and too areal 11)11

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I/ it being directed. If. therefore, these does ilattlnle *Pon
the alupplog of the country • hadbto mulch greater than by
She specific purpose Air which they were authorised, Is ren-
ewed its any drgetg weft's'', ypsy Committee asserts, it
to bo costrsey to the inteatien with which MIA impost was
laid, aid affordioa a fair claim to relief au the part of cons-
official interests that are affected by it, Your Cwountillee
bows annened referent front Om Trinity Howse. shelving lite
".paiablishment, capenttii sire, and receipt of path Light, under
Os •••nageoseat of that Corporation. They do oat feel it
'pvressary, in skim plate, to dwell upon lib. details they far-
' 11l is skiktient to stns,, limit, asswising the co/revises,
' illite papers dr livered io by the Tensity Honor. they And
'd, sum collected from bisippiog foe 23 Lights, has been
~41. lit 1000001 upon the average of this wars itt le, 1011, sad
.41' 1121 k, while the sums orgessafg fur their maintemance (in-
tat the commission pairl on efill.CtiOn. ansomsiiing to
id 11,000) has unmounted in shoat 38,000 f. leaving am
r 4 "lift a*/ "'Oaf a" lila Orme ler Ogle I.tglits only, of pot loss
• I.au 52,0001
The proportions which the speed lore hears Its the re.
i most vary ill 'fort et 10 the differewt Lights from tie-
lances peemime to rash. Its the older established
• ht., a large surplus .111X61 OW have been feeekto, and
Zi Ite fairly assigned ',the great increase of ow conswiertg
' shipping; bat that sooppositirk will tint apply to the
• Ant pies arising (rum soy ref those which have bee* erected at I
cilnrintwgP:wtrhiltideals,ppualf,tee.ii:,asirooll'lSPfinfil:M:ribikree on"epigaetheniirtliia:gibeepultels:fraloerrinied,ssedPewees"st
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loch steads, therefore, nu a dilrerent grosiod. Bet whether,
soilgi gully, the does were sot noire than mithi be neceptsrp,
I, bate ,lore, from et's 0111POIM' A''. befOlf,e MN us libeilieff
•Iti p were Cak`olated with a view to a *peplos, they appear
4.obeit Ms be patty beyond the ostensible purpose fur which
they were gimlet/. or which any emstimgemcies comueeted
pita the mitibilmsaiko. of the Lights, sad the orlvanloge
navigation. is.. reader srcernry, this in *hewn by
pArs sccuits•tailon of • fend fruits the insepbor roller
pun, sod the rents it! estates, amonotisig to a runt, the iii.
rime arising from "duels k stated at 10,0001. per linanni. Of
the essisuer in which this eurplea so crested tins beat (with. d
icy far its greate.t part, your Cempr.tiee feel it right to
enviers' their appeutration. It has been distriimited in small
peartions to seafking peruses, or thus' ctioneirsed with them,
?fluted to a start of distress and poverty, in various parts
pf the ki opium, and may beissusideved all "twill time 1.. (a
io mita of time kosdens that Wert otherwise hare fallen
ippon the commufsity for the wasnlosiauce of such persous ;
sad though thereanay be appeorawert, is the distribution,
of partiality to e.rtain places, which ore explained in the
ireiPlfe of Mr. Court, your Committee de suit think theist
,Poltletent to imam, flu in to withhold the rapressiou sif am
. prahation they bare already applied, In the mode in which
the distriholiwo of this Nod is generally condor led. The
gpra•nn is less es in the application lino to the priuciple on
ashieh the surplus reissue to is collected, and whether for
rPsterimell of sloth a distribution, meritorioris as it may
a large sum Wight 10 sofilit•Oe .0 10 he directly levied on
the shirttail, either of this country or of foreigners, OPPI"-
sieges it out only is to our shipping directly, bid productive
pf restrictions mill impolite upon it in foretell ports, highly
likjerintot to Ohl► comincreinl is is, sod avowedly deems-
pant on the ensitinwavire of this, together with other (liaise-
glens rinfavoursble t.i foreign NaTirlfjog,
let order to form some opinion of the extent to which the
lllAN•rtiefl of the sums for Light Dues, and other purposes,
pay he Ir. cloyed, cut oo itt roily with a sufficient worisiew for
*security of the objects for which they were intended, it
will be necessary to advert, net only to the ditties them-
selves, but to the expew•es atteadiog the establishments re.
roired fur the 4 eolbetion and management. These esta.
Viiiiiments are to be foond in *boom every poet, and appear
ta your Committee so be placed us is scale mach beyond
*hat a fair rcmonerstien fur the services turfursord cats re-
: quire. In most cases, Ilse relleanitoi at the suit-ports is its-
Oradea to the Cultertos of She Comosns ; it is enforced by
~ boa ant hority as swab, it appears seldom to have Men goes-
. lined (though sometimes etrade.l), and is attended with little
' additional troulde or expense to that niftier, rut pt perhaps
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Dr..al, a plate peculiarly rircumelaisired. It appeal's, Not
lieso. the eviilrare, that as various places ihe doilies roulfi be

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witnessed by respectsble perm:ins, u,dee ono. "trinity.
for 211 or to per smut. ua the collective; whiroaii, out of
41 piece', at which collectors an established, no k. than
tipper In receive a remuneration of 40 per feat (snaking a
'collator about 11,0001. per owsoirn), in addition to other •p-
-enema, is agent! for light hoover, commiwioriere of
superwieors of pension., collectors of surplus pilotage,
rte.; she email*. ate uf which are equally derived front
charge. ut the sloppier.
Your f'onotittre tibial' it their duty particularly to call the
siitention of the House to the matinee in which the collection

of the rhos Is iroodocie4 to I.noilon, us described in the ref-
*nue of Mr Cowl sad Ms. R. a.ir, to Ow amount of the
~,a6010.0015-11be distribothso of fe.• to officers—and the
permeation aollines sod collectors, where a single °lice, with
inibiaoss of oar clerk, if is orhositled would be sufficient,
fry *hie% so sionstssl •111•4111, of shows 4,600/. might be smile,
sits ioirestrenienite to whirls Ilinse are *object by whom
ebe dreit are paid, io is Errol wears avoided. Your Coon-
ismer •Ilosle to the apputosine• is hetet ost4 Bolin discliarc.

by Mr. Muller Mr. Verde, Mr. IVetatted, and Mr.
%relief; lA► duties poiferiund hy the three loiter ►oning
here formerly inten.std to n sisal.. pergola.
TAP eonismiesioe paid ►y the Trinity Corporation, in the
Jeer 1818, for the eutt►rtioo of the Light and Thistly Due;
parries pilotage, kr. is the port of London aluee, •mounted
In no le.g n eons shin ohoot 6t,200/.. %bile it,. total amount
of rnttallUr►lPn, for collecting the sate► defies moiler this

antlinrity in the differ's, parts of the kingdom, ansuenneel,
if.r that pear, to about 16,0001.
ifooroited inWrnsalias, on these rubies, will he Nand in
gbe ,aaminalinas of tha idlicers of she Cospreatisto, and par-
ker-Marty of Nr. Court, the Sr err iary.
Pee to this for the lights, 'oof Committee have directed
the Pr astensioa to the collection smokm she head of Ballasloae.
Owed in she manner already waled, and ceirlistited Ly 24
George IV. the ri venue eif whirls is expressly dsterssei is be
*relied to She 'Felicia decayed beans.% their elves, widows,
lies rlepartmeat is tinder the saperiatendence
of two rider brethren (chosen by re:natio,, and who.* retired.
once is stated to be constant), and consists of • chief clerk
and establishment of eleiks. inters. waterlines, and ballast-
men. The mensal oftergate reeept tie holloware is about
end the espeaslituie, Independent of rwablishineat,
a 9.000/. The entintili•lmicst asnounhi to shunt 11,3001. per
44,111111, iti•ing a aet balance of 3,001 U. eel of which shout
1,0141. ia imneselly appropriated so dissressed hallastneem
time sires and widows. avid (Niteroi of ballastmen. The
charges roi British ships vary according In the service its
whirl, She, are espied; no referoace is liven in the sap.
pip of ballast. txcept re the ease of transports and King's
ships; all other ships, wbeher fore*. or British, receive
lbw ballast in thew proper tetras; but the charge nn fu.
virlir, ships is (sow!. rattly higlirr liken on British vessels.
bi.,rh has breis stated so your Cwormsittee Is. hare beta
'free-fret by she siltation of tbss department, in favour of

4*.igatiou, by the Orating liar pressiage of the River Thames.
. out Committee hare nu reason to question that, or any
:pmt of the performance of the duties assigned to it ; at the
• 'Mute time. rens;ieritg the nature of those duties, the num_
lire to lightest', awl of iudivithials ate,thed to them. abase
service, sire to be ahrt.ool anal superiotended, it dues ao-
rtae to )our Cunkii.rtiee, that an esteblinhaellt at the
'Wail, Potter, trinii.tomet at retch au annual coat, is 'pore
mum is riptigi,gd, apt mteht admit Of tedortsou.
The Trinity dues, 'winding the charges fur bnoyage, belt-
tiladimiliage. and priinage, formed the next head of
erglioation. These are regulated tinder the 39th of Blip-
Biodleand the Cl.eirter of James 11. No specific appropriation
*lO .!nand, I scent shat may he collected fium the 6sll
:Drown of the Nat mentioned Charter, ,hook directs the op-
eglitration of monies secreted by decrees, orders, agreresseuts
/toes, whet terra, or uther•ine.lu the repairing of the Triuity.
borne, ♦ins.tbuk.se, Ac. aad the relief of poor Welber',
fihalk wive!, said pour seafaring men. The charge made lan
lerrengoaluiss"does nut appear to Ise guthorised by any Aet,
Matter, ur Patent, and the amount on British shipping ex-
ceeds emestelerabip the rate atuctruesed by the Chaster under
lAels ft I. collected.
In* ditty attached to this grant is that of taking care of
lbw beep asset bearding ikse I average expense of
veld* to the Corpuratioa, appears to be about 5 0001. The
annual gran income to be upon an average of the five years,
WPM *mud is the appelvtia,4ollll U,000(. j and the

towlatissiera alloweill foe Ishotiltin it bits, is I 0! yeses,
augmented to sbopt S.ASIL, which, accenliag ho Mr.
Court's erldeocc, is divided beerecen the secrets., mod elerks
of his Aria, is odilitio• to regular iolociett, beeides gra.
trilka and other allowitaas, leaving a net larritait of oboist
11,405 L •pphrable to the purposes shove mated. Teter
Greenroom is out aware of a sufficient resew' to weirrant Ils•
ch•rgea Made on 'hippest/ of soy description, not beina
strictly confined to the amount allowed by Charter and
Act. of Psrliameut, and is of °paws, that the comm.esag
upon the reveres of the Trinity dose might be sawed, as they
ram be collected with other dollen at the Teittity Home,
The wont spowtally collected from foretios ships fur Ten.
nay dirties, after deducting the comsoiessou of rake.
tine, boo bees very aemoderable; the authority mare
which 11 hoe bens collected. as well as the appropriatio•
of it, is that of envied cossoni. It form., in It. appli.
ratios, • principal part of the remanerstiop of the elder
brethren. lo egraerierce of the Wurl solos. of trade, the
colkction ha. varied torch in 110141.01 ; in 1010 it as as
high se StfifrOf ,• in ISIS it was redoei el to shout 10,0410/.1
and has mace been imperially lammed. The appogena.
thin is described to take place angler the maw of Vac
Torso, and, according to hag meiotic., in the following
err : —The sum collected itt divided a it the elder her.
Area generally; the Imitate of the shares of thew who
take so srlive port in the heftiness of the Corpastiou, rood
arp therefore distinguished ag honorary elder brethren, after
&dating the fines fur their rowatterilatia, is csaiel to the
gears! fend of the Corporatioo • the remainder, with the
addition of those fines, is divided among Ilse eclat mn.
anworeling, as simml in the evidence ups.. the average
of 'treaty years, to about 34101. per annum to eseh number.
Tie this anti must hp added the torments attached to
their situations, whom members of Committees; to woo that
roe of which, how, ter, no elder hooker can berloar. cscrOt
the deputy master, oat arm ea chairman so the Committees
for Lights sod for Pilotage. Your Committee cannot misted
to the remuntrai ion revived by the maim, members ed the
Guporatimt, without feeling it imcsiatleat upon them indirect
thositeot Sou orate House lathe deities of various kinds asa.gu.
.4 to them, which will be faimidelailed is the evidence gives
by Mr. filloitey ; they ON slated to consist in the manes int**.
&ore and m meet of the lights—dot plai iiig of the
buoys and beacoom—the tiopeetion of the evasts nod bar.
stun—the ear• of the navigatie• of the Thames.—the ex.
apposing into the proficiency of boys educated fur Ilie ravel
service—the arnartmaing of the gnaldlottiona of masters
and pilots (Eptiets of great impatience to the maritime tor-
ten's/en( Ike beldam), and io ariditi .... to Ihrsr, the silting
u essessers to the Judge of the Admiralty Court, ibich is
mentiourril by Lord Stowell se • fuactium met esseatial to
the adraWiteration of jaatice vetoing to maritime cases.
His Lorehehip bears also the highest testimony to 111. aoll-
uer in which it is oerforiadottol the assietance he has &ro e.
ed Gum it in his judicial eitratior. It is not therefore from
any disparities to queation the propriety of • renioncratitia to
the elder brethren for the valuable services performed by them,
that your Committee are inducer, Is. make soy übseremdkra
'pow these payments; they arkuowledge the just ice of the title
*Niue* who devote their time and attention to tee public air.
.4. 1* fair 8.11 liberal revamstmatios in this as well se oilier
caste; but they think it desirable it sho•ld he taken fines the
g I lead of the Corporainin to some fixed moment (which
it may be collected from the SCSI loopy of 111 r. Mosey hew brew
the wish of the members of the Corpoestioa themselves),
tether than be furnished by the •pplicatina of a particular
ciellatime, of ascertain extent, deiivedeachisiorly from Po.
reign shipping, sad forming one of those distinctions which,
upon reciprocal favour being sheers§ to British shipping is
foreign countries, poor Committee are uf opinion It is moat
expedient should be abrogated.
The next load to which your Committee directed its exa.
urination, was that of Surplus Pilotage. This is levied ur-
dee the kid Geo. 111., nod in the proportion sit 1 on the
grout of the pilotage of every foreign vessel. The object
of-it is to establish a fund for the relief of pilots who shall
harp become incapable of discharging their duty, from are
or accident's, or perfumes'', infit 'mtg. The I amount
of collection upon am of yeses sheer the isle was int •
pored (the interest opal the fond already treated yielding
about 2,6001. per siinnon), is about 11,04101. The annual de.
inand for the objects of the charity upon that fund, does not
appear to exceed 1,500 f.; and as the perassnent I in.
come apes the capitol exceeds the expeirdiinic by nearly
1,0001, as the inteirtion of the Art appears to be SUMClellily
provided for, there does not appear any reneein why this tat
upon foreign shipping should be clout lured, except in respect
to the of such countries as rehire to remove form British
shipping every mufavourado diatiortium in thcie ports.
By the authority of the same Act, • rem of three games'
is lip collected from ouch of the London Trinity pt lots,
and of two guineas from each of elbow at the wit-ports,
which I. required from them for the I rem o•I of
licenses. The average of the collection is oboist 2,000!.
which appears to be appropriated in part to the ornIUSICI at Sur
of the elder brethren who compose the Pilotage Couimitigg
in London, and of the sub conatiesioavre of pilots :tattling in
the °migrate, sod in part to ilefra)iiig the milieus.. of csrry-
ing the Act inter elocution. These, your Cumsnitt.e are of
opinion, may admit of awl require reduction. particularly
the ert•blistaseeit at Gravesend. Fur the details Oil thin
bead, they desire Its refer to the accomot prwloped by the
Corporation, which will be (wend i* the Appendix.
The fees arising from the heatable of certain bosh, to
enable them to be employed use Ike river Thames. wore
granted to the Trinity House by the 2.1 of Gporge 1!1. ; no
particular application of the fee is eujoimed by the Act ;
bat the amoral of Sues awl penalties levied under it are
(brewed to be applied to the (Imitable punning, of the Is.
Initiation ; the fees are of small amount ; it 'prat from
the evidence of Court ikst a Ist ger soar than tines
authorised by the Act is usually received or braises heist
granted ; the whole IS d,eishsl amongst the clicks of the
establishment. The receipt of the Sur d mon appear, to
poor Committee to bears ribose which ought to be corroded,
awl they trust that the Trait, Corporation will put an end
in it ; soil your Committee cannot loop bete übetrving how
such preferable it would lie that all tine ;Acres said elerks
eif the establielment should, in any future arrenvitincol, be
paid by 'digitate and ostensible salaries frosts the general
Cards of die Corporatist*, the. by a multiplicity of s emolu-
ments under different name*, which elude oho-cesium, sod
make the seal 'mogul. of their receipts difficult to be • .
tater&

In considerimg the reductions that may be advissbk, your
Committee beg to disclaim all wish to struck upon those
funds which are raised outlet the authority of Charters or
Acts of Ike Legislature, and have been charitably destined
is their •pplitatioo, to the relief of that valuable body of
men, to whose services ibtfr country is so highly indebted.
These footle, In their aggregate ge, mount to about
18,0001. per antrum, and will he further augmented, should
the establishments of she 8611v:to Office, mid expensep at-
leading the Pilot Act, undergo the reduction of which your
Committee think they are susceptible, mad the large com-
mission on ennectiug the Light still Trinity doses in Ildiodon,
be distontiuucd, in pursuance of the setunisscodatiim
your Committee.
The collections foe lights staid me a &Remit foot img.The
patents must be 'opposed to presume, that *bit a unposed
on the 'object, is necessary for the erection and mniurreaure
of the light by 'high he is directly beuelited. The I grew
of It beyond drat is retwoorble fur these objects, might, se.
cording to as opinion Hated to have been delivered by Lord
Hardwirke, draw into quebilissi the validity of the patriot it-
self. Looking then to 11. e income shrived from Ike beds,
as legitimately confined to, a• well as to be measured by the
repeueliture necessary fur their .erectiou and insistenance,
your Committee have culla/diced to what degree relief may
be justly aliurded to the commercial interest, by the redtie-
lion of the rsktiug charges spun ibipsdue us, ibis areussm.
Its doing this, they hare referred to the expenditure io itself,
the expenditure as compared wish the collection, sad as tom.
pared with the same appropriated to, and found amtlicient
for She support of other light., which, •lilsough it perhaps
might mot lead to • perfectly accurate conelussuu, bright 1.1111
materially assort them in fuming a judgment.
The actual espetulitarr, including commission, as gated
its the accounts of ISIS, 11814, and 1820, 5111011113.1 lo about
38,0001., the income to about 90,000/., leaving • 111111.11./,
amounting to about 22,000/.
This expeaditore appears to your Committee to be much
angusenied beyond its necessary tumuli', by a wart of pro-
per attention to economy in regulating she slieburseiterits in-
cident to the tosiotettejeee of the jighte, by the .illovraase of

011•110essilre tomenipsiem mut agency, sad other things which
would. if restrained, reduce it very, coustderably, sod propore
tionably Increase the surplus. The sum calculated as above,
it pet light, without charging the lights with say slate of
the lepers! estsenees of the establishment ma Tower-hill,
amount urns SO light establishments, to about 1,9001. each,
ausanaget shirk, however, nine floating Heise (attended with
as 'spear 'feeler than thus► ou shore, anal which, therefore,
increase t►e average; are included. From • comparative
Oatmeal of the expenditure on account of the Norther.
Riven in the evidence of Mr. Stephenson, and to
whit h th. Committee beg to refer, it appears that the number
of
light s.t•hli.htwewts mulct the management of the North-
ern cwmwia.iu• 1114 ; that the amount of the dues emits.
ally colleettst, it about, 53,0011 g. ; that the roams
each Sushi establishment, itteloailsoit all repair., amoo•ta to
about Ague. ; the resistor of the receipts beteg applied to the
general ashiblishwieat of the Norther■ Cdllllllllo.billiterll ; and
the surplus fumi to paying off the luaus and meeting the gee
oast contiogrmies.

Foe the lailiMme of 'applying this expenditure, each ship
whirls poseurs any one light, irsubiert to a payment for the
whole, ansonntuig to awn pence p.r register ion, or about
ome•tlehlk Part of a pemity per bus per light. 'Thus collection
to sogginess, snit only for the purpo.es of the actual mains,-
napre of the lights, bet so Ca exe..edis them, that a fund has
hens created, which has already lignitlated • pail °film heavy
ealeominences to *heels they are subject, sal which will, in
a oudernia sjiary liquidela the whole, and produce a fund
ableyeate to the neresesry poppet of the lights, from which
lice all glaarge on nsvigation, un this account, sa to be at
ass end.

Your Committee are aware, that the diffirent modes of
gollertiug the flues Cro there respective lights, make an me-
eur.te control ~,,, very &Meal' and tint the same rate, if
collected at per light nifty ma the lights actually passed,
puuld not he by any mean% Ito productive as it nuts *sad
perhaps 11411 much more than viewer the actual militate; that
in such a case a higher collection per light would be meter
eery to provide Cur that as well as the contingencies,. But
tiu yore out cmieriors of soy circumstances that should ree-
dier the 'arose of staistiatning and aitendiag the lights under
the ntanagetwent of the Trimly Cuiporation 50 much larger
than that fur the lights under the management of the North-
stn Commiasitmeis, which is evident, even with a reasonable
alluwaace for the merest, tt expenses incident to the
niece of the floating lights.

From the relents made to your Committee, II appears
that there see several lighto, viz. Firth°lm, Smalls, Fern,
Lungvhips, Mumble Head, Burnham, coo iginally granted to
the Tenney How, the lulls of which have bees subse.
qoesetly les by them to individuals on lease, at rents not ex-
ceeding ITU per annum for the whole, a sum that beams a
very small propornoia Ito she actual receipts, some of which
will be semi is the Appetitlie. Suite explanation in respect
to these I will be footed itt she last exareinatioo of Mr.
Cowl, by which it appears, that the ram awl convesiestem
of a light is a 'particular situation, Mien% been suggested by
some individual, aid ar •pplication made to the Trinity-
house, the Coepuralson petinuued the Cru•a in the usual
form, and upon reunites the authority for the erection of the
light hominid colleenua of site duties fur their mainteonace,
delegated bulb to the iallivoloal who iris suggested it, in
cooridcrat haw of a small quit-rent, tag to themselves a
right of soperiusemleace amid maseactinent. Its the degree is
which that superintendence
sand management is actually exer-
el•fd or neglected, Weight the tratasactioa it each ma leo on
public grommets objectionable or otherwise; even if every at-
tention bad bees bestowed on the part of the Triaity Corpo-
ration, so see that it was lies made the interment of Using
a much larger (Merge on the sopping than the maintestanee
of the lights so be erected required. No previous Isseessiga-
lion oss this subject, however, according so she statement of
the witness alluded to, ever appears to have taken place, and
of this your Committee custom but express their dsssppruba.
lion. The grants to the Corporation, semivowels me authority
to levy money from the subject, wire evideutly intended for
the public ammo, and uut to be converted tutu a rouge of
private esnolumemut.
Theta is another deeeriptioa of lights, of which the patent,
have also beim produced to your Committee; the erection
of which have been, as different times, assigned to iadivi-
d•als by the Crows, and she poocr of collecting dues at the
same time ranted so Ibem, under time obligation of erecting
cud manifesting such lights ; she Imelda at Dinginess, Har-
wich, Wyolerion, Orford, Spurn Slserrosonid Tyaesnonth,
are those alluded to. Your Commence have sot before
them accounts of the Receipt and expeuditurs of each
of these light.; as however she rates are out lower this
of those under the immediate inamtgemsull of the Corpo-
ration of Trinity How, nail the expenses Weeding
thins, nut apparently lager, they have so reason so
believe that the turonie doe, not 4l the useeasary
expenditure, in the same degree that it this I. the various
other lights referred to, and the, great incomes are toot de.
rived front Wogs, and cujoyed by imiividualr, at lb* reunite
of the shipping of the country. By a reference lo the pa.
teats granted for treeing them, it appears that some have
reeesitly sapired, which your Committee undermud have
been 'crewed fur further periods, on sew conditions; and
others well expire its the course of a few yearn, which will
shots fall into the hands of the Croat* Impressed with an
oposiou that moth advantage would arise (was the Lights
lector gesocreilly placed Heiler the Trustily House, your
Csiessistre feel it Meorehent upon them to suggest, in
loch au event, that us Ike expiration stf the terms, the
meats in questioo, imaged of beteg reamed to iadi.
widish, should be transferred to the Corporation, and
the lights made subject to the PBlll/1 rundiliuns, aril placed
in every terprct on the same footing as she other lights
soder it. management. Your Committee, also, strongly
cubviaced that public convenience would be greatly pro-
moted by she whole of the light duties payable in Lou-
don, besog is (stare collected is one and the same office,
reroasniended it so the proprietors of the private light.,
*oil of the light* which have been les on lease, sod also to
the CA.lllMlififtefte for she Northern Lights, and Trustees of
Greenwich Hospital, to stadowiso the collections of all nag
duns of she said several lights by the Tritely Corporation, at
lien house on Tower-hill, allowing 2 per cost. fur the col-
lection, and accounting with them for the procacds respec-
tively, at slated periods.
Your Committee now proceed to submit inch inaggetO
nous as they behave may usefully be adopted by the Trinity
Hoille, wills a view to affording some relief to the
as resist highly desirable; nod so doing this, they trust it
will appeer they have, noses., lust sighs of what is either
stemeary for she nes int ensure sat the establishments cottoected
with the public service; the reseuisenstioe sal the members of
the Trinity Corporation, for the duties performed by them,
or she attention due to slip objects of their charities. On
the other hand, they have to hope, that having regard to the{(
socrossry proposes, they shall not poorer to have retont•
mended she tO11111.0.10(7 of each mos mum of charge ois the
shippers ul this country. or of fignilaers, as may not be
fully warrasted by the objects for which it intended to
provide.
With respect to the Billsotage deportment, your COT-
mince has already salves seal so it; our does any alteration
appear rooming, but 'bat of reducing she expense of she
establishment. nod she equalisation of she rates, under the
condition aimed in respect to the charge uu British aed
Foreign ships.

(To Ire concluded to morrow.)

MILAPCNOLY CI•CUMSTANCE.—A young
named MOFFATT. residing with her rriende in .I'Bl-
- Village, Westminster, was to be married to
LI pint% tradesman on Michaelmas Day. The
young man had takes apertmenta, purchased far-
inure, and carried every nther necessary arrange.
meat into e tree so 111,. t nothing remained
bat the elver:mei itself. On the very day the
intended bride was seized with violent illness, which
was anon ascertains: to be 14 relapse a • pleurisy
the caught at Horsham about three years age; phy.
octane were procured, and under their cure she lin.
gered until Tuesday morning last, when she died,
to the great grief of her parents stud foudly.attoche4
loser.

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