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firmity. With this v.ow it ‘, at prwinied to tiedke.
..illereaSe.of the ai,(Av•llices from the Cli6;taild
tal at-GfeenWieli:" The suill necessary-to meet this
increase, ,could be only from 14 to .f.);00()I. It was
prOlSOsed tO supplylUnds t-or this purpose by a de,
:thi&ion of is. in the pound on all prize Money; to,
\which every man
_in the. Fleet, he was confident,
'would cheerfully Submit. His' Majesty, with that
attentioif to t lre'coMfbrts of his Navy which was but
•211 leattireof. his, constant paternal' regard for the in,
'lerests 'of all his subje&s, would make an addition
".2tO the smile amount froin all' droits of Admiralty..
`lx w©tiled be observed, that he made. no prOviSion
'for the Marines, Whose claims every one would feel
•to be strong as .tfrose of any other claSs. The
.*:re‘ison--Ams;ithat, thOtight the allowances to be'
granted' to them would be better regulated oil the,
principles of the intended adVanee to the Army. He
hoped;,that: in considering the propriety of the ad-
evances-tO;theArtny and Navy, each Would be con-
sidered itritself.without any invidious comparisons.
..14.&toped-theadvantiiges to,he granted to each would
besatisfaefory : but the Condition of the services was
;cl.istirte-t,. and thefefore the provisions
,may not in
Allany 'instances bear comparison:- The Sea Fen,
•-chiles.be-thought already sufficiently provided for ;
and after the-late, addition, lie saw no reason for an
increase of halt pay:: He ,concluded with moving,
-that 193; t 181: be 'granted for the 'purposes of these
.x.ivanees foethe remainder of this year, from Ist of
.Alay 'next;
In'answer to a question from Mr.WILtsERFor.cE,
-Lord Horottlett 'stated the 'number of Petty Officers
be ten in a ship, -including the captains of the tops,
foreeasfie, •
•A r. Fad XCIS was inclined to think that in' fik-
big the' gay of the Navy thcecinisideratibn of. prize,
Miley hud been included, and he wilied'this point
to be examined before the increase W2S agreed to.-,
He did not think
,the questions of: increase to the
Navy and Army would be kept quite distina.abroad, .
parttcularly in this very point, the Navy 'having ad-
vanta...res'of prize-money which the Aney had not.
. Lord G..IIILIES agreed in the necessitij- of an
addition Ulm; to the-Navy, and thought the Noble
Lord entitled to -thanks for his early attention to
this important object : he thought the' additibn to
the Warrant and Petty Officers inadequate they
were the soul ofevery Man of War, and the prospe-
rity of the Navy depended upon them. He wished
t;:ern to blve such advantages as would encourage
them to remain in the, Navy instead of returning to.
the merchant service : he wished the higher classes
to have -allowances equal 'to the ernoltrmentsof
tors of coasting vessels; and inferidr classes to those Of
Mates. These stations; they would probably fill in the
merchant secs ise. He wished a trilier allowance of
Is. a day additional to be given to thig First Lieute-
nant-of every line-of-battle Ship, the expellee of
which would be but small; while the benefit ofin•
creased rank and authority would be very considerable.
If Lord Melville had-coati/Med in office, these' im-
p'r(*ements would have been Made beibre now; and
he hoped to,be pardoned for 'digressing to 'say,' that
'it was "Owing to Lord Melville's exertions, and the
ing up, of his measures by his sticcesgoi-, that the
been placed in a condition to.,aequire the
glnr; of the
,present campaign, tWeiity,
Of ft.c. Line'-havilig been added: by an ek-
iy.:i:ieus repair. He again adverted. 'to t e pro;
priety of increasing forSierJ the encouragement to
Petty, and Warrant Officers, 'Which would •be
..the
best means of manning the Navy with 'good volun-
teers. It would at the same time diMinish the ne-
cessity of pressing, a power
,whiCh he thought never
to be relinquished, but to be exercised a's little as
possible.: 'He was of 'opinion, that the 'present vote
ought to be increased, 'or the appliCation of it to be.
varied, so as to cover the additional.allowanees he
tecontinended for Warrant and 'Petty Officers.
The Resolution was-agreed to. The Report 'to be
received oif Mbadair. •

SLAVE'-BILL. •
The ATTPUNi:Y GENERAL moved, that the House
should go into. the further • consideration of the 'Re-
port of the Committee on the Slave Bill. •
Mr. ROSE Observed, that if they would allow
him an inter View- he had many suggestions of a pri-
vate nature to make to-the Gentlemen on the oppo-
site side, and wished t`7.e further consideration of the
Report to be delayed till Tuesday.
..11r. Secretan FOX.did.uot see why the consi-
deration of the Report.should be delayed on that ac-.
cuunt:. -his Learned Friend would, he doubted not,
readily agree to postpone-the third reading until
Tuesday, which_would answer the same purpose.
Mr. ROSE said, that if the Report were now to
he considered, ho must call the attention of the House
to several ithportaut points conne&ed. with this Bill:
He conceived now that the ports of the North were
shut- against our commerce, this Bill would operate
instill further injuriug,..that „and. our manufaCturcs.
The valne of 'our manufactures exported.annually to
• Africa was above two millions: How much of this
gross amount would be affe&ed by this Bill. he could
not pretend to say ; but, certainly enough to induce
the House.to pause . before, at such a crisis as the
present, They sacrificed it. Our East India Trade
would be materially injured:likewise by its opera-
as likewise Our dire& trade to-the Spanish •Main,
which, was highly profitable. -What objecl.was to
be attained. by- the Bill ? If the Abolition of the
Slave Trade, the plain fa& "that as we receded from
the trade the Americans: advanced* in it, would be
sufficient to shew the absurdity of the idea. Those,
indeed; who. professed to be friends .Of humanity,'
ought,scarcely to support a Bill which was calculated
to diVcrt - the African trade into a channel much
_more injurious-to the. interests of.humanity than that
in which it then. Was. The last Ship-from -Carolina
buried 139 slaVes on her.passage, -and yet her voy:
aye is considered, sufficiently PrOfitable., .If :the
passed,. the cbusequence would be, that the
nufa&urers of Stockport and''Paislo-would be going
ahout-naked,and starving ; and-thus by attending to ;J
a supposed
.-claina for relief froMa distant quarter, we
should -give, existzace to tuna more Severe distress
a:- borne:
741 Le 2ITTORNZYGEANTIAL Of csintred 'that the
remarks tuade:by the lion. c.;entleniiiii had better,l ave.
been deferred till: the third. reading, as.bis objeeticins
Went to. the principle.
.:1-le4iisned to. know :whet
ther or not it was the intention ofthe.fron. Gentle-
man torepeathis 'objeaions-c with others .added to
them: on the third:readiag,,,wlich be-meant to pro-
pose shouldltakplaceon 114P.sclay•

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ROE 'should certainly feel himself at liFerty
to kpett his oojeetiois.on the
,third reading, if he,
found that they Rad produced no cited.
'Sir _NEWPORT conceived the Bill eligible in
the highest' respect' in every degree. He abhorred
the Slave Trade'; but, even were he a' warm advo=
cate for it,' he should support.-this Bilk.. As it was
We really embarked in the trade as-.a traffic,of blood,
not for, our own conveuience, but for that of our
Eden-des.— It had 'been said that some incidental ad-
vantages accrued to the manUfaduus of this 'Coon-.
try from the pradice which it was the object of the
Bill, to' abolish. But we ought' to look at the in-
terests of the,Country at large, and not to those of
-a few- individuals. Those general interests Were af-
feded by the, practice,. for it gave, our 'Enemies- the
in'eans:of cultivating their possessiens, it' embarked
Our capitals for their advantage. On these and other
'grOtnds he should -Support the Bill.
General TARLETON opposed 'the Bill, as highly
'injurious to the tradeof the Country, and particn-
larly to that of his constituents. The trade was an
exbellent nursery -for Seamen, and as such shoUld
,not be diScouraged in a Country which depended so
much on its MaritiMe .strength. From Liverpool
il5 Vessels were employed., on the average *in this
trade, each carrying from 30. -to- 50 men, thus form-
ing a perpetual reservoir for our Navy.—Ever since
he had sat in ParliaMent an annual debate .had taken
place on the. Abolition' of the Slave Trade. The at-
'tack hack always been formally and regularly met.—
This 'was assailing the interest of those concerned
by -a Side-wind, for he believed that, if the Bill were
carried, it would be a virtual abolition of the Trade.
Mr. Alderman PRi,Z'SEP objected to the
not on the ground stated, by the-Hon.' Gentleman
who had just sat down; but he Conceived that by the
Bill the. effeal Of the 'Order of:rOuncil. of the 15th
of August last, and which, -in compliance with the
Ternis ofCapitulation of the Islands taken from
the Enemy, put those Islands on the same footing
as they were formerly, -would be destroyed. - The
Hon. Alderman read several of the Articles of the
different Capitulations in which these conditions
were agreed .to.
'The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in reply, stated that
the sandtion introduced' into the Order of Council-
was, doubtful, and that this Bill went to establish it.
Mr. AldermanPairtsdr explained.
After a few words froth General GASCOIGNE and
Sir WILLIAM YouNd, the: Motion for diking the
Report' into farther consideration was- carried, the
Amendments were agreed to, and the Bill Ordered
to be read a 'third time on- Tuesday.
General GAscoictq hoped the Petitioners against
the Bill. would be allowed to be heard by Counsel
'on that-day. . ,
The XI'TORNEY-GENERAL Observed, that a MoL.
tiou might be made to that effect. He would not,
howeVer, takeupon hiMself to pledge. the consent of
the House to submit to
I. - • _ PRO,PERTY•TAX.. •
-The Order of the:Day for going into a Committee
On-the 'Property Duty Bill leaving been read, •
*Lard HENRY •PETTY.stated, that it'liad been
found necessary to introduce-a number of-Amend-
meats into the Bilk It was his intention therefore .
• to propose, that the Bill thus amended,'should be
re-printed, and taken into farther consideration some
dey next Week.: This appeared to him to be the best
• -mode of_giving the-Bill that full and fair discussion
which he was anxious that it should receive. With
regard to the principle of the Bill, as it'had 'received
the sanction of so large a majothy,, both in its pre-
sent form, and when it 'was presented in' another
shape, he should-abstain from saying any thing upon-
. it, although lie was aware, that there wereSomewho
entertained a strong objection to the principle. He
would, therefore, confine himself to stating shortly
the substance of two or three of the principal Amend-
ments which he intended to propose. It would be
recolleded, that as the Bill originally stood, 'it im-
posed a duty of 10. per cent. on all Incomes frOm
Property, exempting-only small annuitants and, per
sons in trade, whose incomes was under a hundred a
year; and that for these persons a gradual scale of
exemption had been formed from incomes of 501, to-
incomes of 1001. a-year ; leaving incomes under 501. '
a-year totally exempt from any operation of the Act.
He had already stated the mode in which these
exemptions were to be repaid to the persons claim-
ing them: When the Bill went into the Coni-
mittee, he trusted it would be foUnd that this mode
was very simple. It merely required a certificate to
be prodwed by tie claimant, which could be to him
no inconvenience and, What was certainly very,de-
sirable, it tended materially to lessen the difficulty
- which the Commissioners .had hitherto found in
executing. their duty Deeply as he felt the neces-
sity of making the Bill efficient, and rehidant as" he
was to, relax any of the provisions' which were Cal-
ctilated to render it so, :trot,- on mature consideration,
he found the expediency of alleviating the burden
in some degree, and particularly on the inferior
classes. In the' first place,- his amendments had for -
their obje& that class of .society.„-who,-employed• in
laborious and handicraft occripations, Were -paid
weekly wages, which amounted to no more than
•.501.1 year. When Gentlemen recolleded how this
money was -acqnired,---When they, considered that:it •
was frequently by the-sacrificeof health, and ulti-
mately of life, ,in dangerous and injurious 'employ:,
ments, they would readily, allow that those persons
whom- he' had mentioned were entitled to-some
perior advantages. .1t was -his intention, • therefore,
to. propose a clause, by which persons receiving not
more than -305.. a. week, or ss. on any one dayik,
should be. exempted. alto ether from:the-operation
•of the Bill. -He-likewise meant to propose, that
the Scale- of ,exemptions which -now was carried
• fronititleordeS. of fifty poUnds to incomes of one
-litindrect,-pOundS, should be' .extended. to. incomes
p,p e'' fit'lndred and 'fifty.:'pounds-t-applying the j
wine principle a its the for Mer case. Having said
thus much, he
_Should move that the. Speaker do
104Ve „the
BL%XTOA expressed his• intention, When
the. Amendthents'Wel printed;:and thp Bill should j
again come-Under the consideration- of the Hoilse,,
to offer some .observation's on it. He thought that
the landed
,interes, • suffer materially by it
as it now stood,;`` ,as anxious • for- sortie'
-qualification !,.s. to 'which- it .sub-
jeaed them.
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