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mind, otherwise they may find themselves unwarily
involved in a very serious cynic?, greatly exceeding
their means or willies to pay.
Compositloni-on dwelling houses are to cease et
the end ofihe year of removal, and on other articles
by the death of the party compounding.
The monies to Arise by virone of the composition
L'uotered into Wader this act, tire-al bet payable at the
same -timer, in the same proportions, and
,to the
same persons, iu the duties •of Assessed Tuxes arc
now payable 'DT the said act, too, any person may
by pa)•ing Lis composition in advance, gain•the ad-
vantage of is discount Of 3 per cent. per annum, cal-
culated fir the perial dr 'periods by which 'each
respective sum shall he paid POODer tlran the period
prescribed for • the payment thereof: But a moiety
of the annual stun payable •by the composition
tattred into, is to be paid within ten slays after the
date of the certificate of composition ; which con.
position cannot be entered into after the 31st of
October, 1819.

state stated the leading features of this a±t
with a perepicuity sufficient, we trust, to mile thcni
perfectly uatlerstood by those who have no opror-
tinily to read, or patience to examine, the act itself.
We are-not very sanguine in our expectations that
the revenue will be greatly 11:1u:fitted by the adop-
tion of this plan ; though it is manifest that much
accommodation will result to individuals by n.•i
arrangement which will increase their comforts with-
out burdening their incomes; and we doubt not
many who have no idea of enlarging their establi,h-
meats will enter into compositiontneevely to avoid the
trouble and vexation of repeated surcharges, and he
be rid of an evil almost as great as that of the as-
sessed taxes themselves—that of appealing to the
Commissioners front the uniirst 4teutands dun in-
terested ant overbearing surveyor.

A Sorel VEX or TlO TIMEF --.Fifty•tvrt, clothiers
have, during 'the last 20 years, carried ter busbier.
at a borough town in Wiltshire, and at their various
munutiictories afforded employment ton numerous
population ; but now, tne inbialittAatstf 'the Once
are wok into pauperirtu and wreechethiess, fur of
their 52 employers, 9 are desub•J7derve failed, 24
have dti-Pried, and only 'two revaain id business.
Nor a singular case,' fur there are within .t 3
miles of the above _place, 4 *Ater manufacturing
towns, in each of which thettlaretsian of trade has
been equally severe.
An article from Rome, itrotte of the Paris papers,
mentions, that -"Rossini, the celebrated Madre de
Chapelle, lately pass;ng thmugh Pesaro, his native
Ura-a:appeared at the theatre, where he was recog-
nized, and honoured by his fellow townsmen with.
the livelitsa marks of esteem and admiration. It is
added that a fbreisn Princes!, who has for some
years been travelling hi Italy, testified- some &lap-
probation, aft: that, notwithstanding her high eau::,
she was instantly assailed by the spectators with cla-
mour and hissing.
Lately a Privy Council was held at the Treasury
<Umbers, presidtsl over by Lord Harrowhy, and
tousisting of the Lord Chief Justices of the Coarts
of King's Bench and COMIIIOII Pleas, and the Loki
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Sir William Scott,
and Sir William Grant, and amended by the Attor-
ney General, &c to inve.aigate the circumstances
attending the death of a Maltese at Athens, who
was shot lay Mr. W. Kinnaird in January List. Mr.
Kinnaird had presented himstlf at Malta fora
and was sent home a priamer to England. Arter-a
foil investig-rtion and examinatioa, Mr. liirmaird
was &se:l:wiz:4l, lacing batilurably acquitted of any
charge agaitrat. him. It appeal\ d by the evidence
transmitted by the Ceasuls of tl.c Levant, that tI
Brent of firing cr. the deocesei' IVit3 .4:1 absolute mi.&
dtfcacc.

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110,75 E C.,' LORDS.
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ALA. Pat--an odd joker—and Yankee more slay,
Once ritting together, a gallows,paNs'd by: •
.aid the Yankee to Pat, " I doa't tr...lte too free,
" Give that gallows its due, and pray where wodirl you i‘e?"
" Why, honey," said Pat. " faith that's e.. ily kaown ;
" I'd he riding to town by inys.liall alone."

IV own! ERN C MCC. IT.
Bef,re !Ir. Baron Jtfr. Justice BA Y I. EY.
aid I:urk-saiurth, July 24, at tltc Cily
Of York.

POOR RAT".:A Marquis of LaNscrowNt rose,
lens, art to notice. to mos e that the Bill for preventing the rnis-
anplicatiou of the Parish Rates he read a second time this day
ree month.. The Noble Niarquis Bated his objections to the
ni 1, which were principally confirosi to the enactment,: which
empowers Churchwardens to take chihlrtn from their parents,
and put them into WOrkhotUes. This, lie contended. ans do-
stniymg all the moral and virtuous feeling which children derive
trout parents. The Lord. knew that all the ties of morality
an.:ong the poor arose out of affection for their offspring. and to
s.,:hdraw from them those principles of affection anti vit.-
would ',e injurious to the interests of society. To draw chil-
dren at an early no from their parents, woMil have the (fall of
depriving them of all those advantage, whieli in general they de-
rived front their paretr.,. The Noble Manlius cooehtded by
.:vein; fie Bill be read a second time ttis day three months.
'Pile EARL of if.tnnowier admitted there were defects in the
Bill, which induced him to consent to pniAyone it.
The EMIT. of (Arco root. concurred in the propriety of de-
Eharating upon a question of this nature. The effect at' this
ineeatre was a considerable increase of expence, and it was pro •
blematkal whether it would do good or harm.
't he Marquis of LANSDOWNE ;aid a few words in reply.
tad DARNLEY sum:oiled this ar;,niment of Cie Noble
Marquis.
Tic motion was then carried without n divirinn

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iVSOLVCNT lhtTom,' ATT( E. T. *.NI) moved.
the Insolrmt lichters' Bill be recommitted. The Hume accord-
ingly went intoa Committee nn the Bill.
Lord 1101.1. AND suit]. he Japed the Bill would pass in some
Jame.
Lord Ittalottale ohaerved, that no intrEdnicnts would make
Cle efficient.
The chturcti were then severally amenat.d, and the Biil with
thritd amendments ordered to be printed.
I.ords then 1)room-deft m into witnesses on the Barnstaple
Bill, after width they adj,mrned.

PrTif.lcANi'l./CENItItCe 111. L.—The Earl of 1 .A enERDALE.
Tort:mat to voice, moved, that the AlehounA Licensing Bill be
rIaLl a ttoinzl thrie tali* day three raJnais. Agreed to, and the
threv...n out.

1t1r.1,3 RESITCTING Tn.trmt —The Earl of LAUT)EPZIALE
maned a flcsolatinn to tr• entered on the Journals. and heroine a
S'a! :11g order. It 1110 in substance, ** Ite,ulvo.l, that no
r..a1:1-g•to Manufactines and Comm snail be nmad a first
tic:a in tl-is House until a Select t'ornmittee shall have enquired
kto the expediency of such measure, and relented to the House
die feuds ctf their extualination."—Agreed to.
Atcurned.