The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-21 00:00:00

ALE LICENCES.

The next Duty is that of half a guinea additional
Stamp on every Licence to sell Ale. Upon this sub-
jea there has not been any additional• duty imposed
since the year 1774. The number of Licences arc
60,000 ; the produce of this Duty I estimate at
32,0001.

CARDS AND DICE.

The next Duty I shall propose is that of an addi:

tional Stamp of 6d. on every Pack of Cards, and
zs. 6d. on every Pair of Dice, which I understand
will yield considerably more than the Sum at 'which
I estimate it. I am informed by those who arc
concerned in making these articles, that great frauds
are pradisedon the allowance made for exportation.
They are reimported without the payment of any
duty, and the fraud is stated to be little less than
zo,oool. I shall take credit for only half that sum,
and therefore, with the additional Duty to be im_
posed, and the measures to be devised to prevent
fraud, I shall estimate the whole produce at 20,0031.

These, Sir, arc all the (faxes that I shall have
at present to propose, and the Committee will ob-
serve that they stand as follow :
Taxes to be relinquished,

; 2 ,

Taxes proposed in lien of them,
Additional Tax on Probates of Wills where the

Property left amounts to 6001. or upwards, in-
creasing gradually as far a property of 100,eool. J. zzo,ooa
Additional Duty on Deals of as. in addition to 3s.
imposed in the present Sessions,
Additional Duty on Ale Licences of tos. 6d.
Sixpence per pack addition on Cards, and as. 6d.
per pair on Dice, with some regulations to pre-
vent,the evasion of those Duties,

62,0070

32,000

20,000

k• 234,000

I am sure the Committee will be aware of the
difficulty of proposing Taxes which will produce no
inconvenience. I can unaffectedly say, but I will
not dwell on that subjed, I sincerely lament the
necessity of laying fresh ,Burthens on the Public ;
but I hope the Committee will be of opinion that I
have endeavoured to bring forward such as will be
as little onerous as possible. i his not my intention
at present to propose all the remainder of the Ways
and Means of the year for raising the Supply, in
the place of other Duties abandoned ;they shall be'
proposed hereafter.—He then Moved'the first Re.
solution respeCting the additional duty on Personal
Property, which passed-without opposition—as did
all the others, except that of the duty on Ale Li-
cences. When that Resolution was put,
Sir ROBERT BUXTON said, he did not rise to,
make any • obje&ion to this Tax, because he was
perfealy convinced that Taxes are necessary at this
moment. He only submitted whether this Tax
would be produaive ? He knew• that the last Tax
which was imposed on Ale-houses, put down some
of the small ones.; the consequence of which was,
that a number of houses sold ale without any Li-
cence. It was extremely difficult to get at these
houses. He wished that some fraudulent means
might not be devised to lessen the intended produce
of this Tax ; he did not oppose it ; he only wished
the Tax might be made as produCtive as possible.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
he trusted the Magistrates would have both power
and inclination to prevent the abuse alluded to by
the Hon. Baronet from being considerable. He
thought, it right to anticipate one objeftion which
might perhaps be made to this Duty, that of its be,
ing hard, upon the Keepers of
,Public.houses.—
It should be recolletied, that they had lately re-
ceived a considerable increase of allowance. on Sol-
diers being quartered on them : and in a great
measure they were relieved from the burthen of re-
ceivink Soldiers at all.
Ili!. ROSE said, he should be sorry that an idea
should prevail, that if any houses sold ale or other
liquor without a licence, it was owing to the re-
missness of Magistrates, because they could prevent
that abuse. .He knew the contrary from experience.
Magistrates had never yet been able to prevent this
abusive praCtice -of fraud upon the Revenue,, of sell-
ing ale and spirits also without licence. Nor would
this pradice be ever wholly put down, while the
charader of an Informer was held so odious as it

was in this Country. You might put one house
down that became well known o sell ale and other
liquors without, but two obscure byes would rise
up in its stead. By this pradiee much inconvenience
and detriment to the Public arose ; the Revenue was
defrauded in two ways, and the morals of the People
injured in some degree. First of all, the selling these
articles without a licence was a fraud on the Reve-
nue ;—secondly, the person who did this constantly
dealt in smuggled goods, and did so of necessity,
because if he paid the duties on these articles, that
of itself would lead to discover him to be a dealer
in them, and therefore he must take out hii licence.
Lastly, houses of this-kind were the haunts of the
very worst Members of the Commimity.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ad-
mitted, that to a given extent there was force in
these observations, but he hoped the evil alluded to
would not be very great.
Deferred the other Orders of the Day ; and at
Half-past Seven adjourned until To-morrow.

I'R ICE- 0

F STOCKS,

VLSI

ADAY.
India Stock
Ditto Binds s. dis. '
Exchequer Bills dill.
New ditto Ss. dis.
Lottery Tic!. v. 4 ,
Oinniutn 9 Si
!Allier. 3 per Cent. SBil
Ditto Ann. it 5.46
Dank for Account .
India for May
Cull. t.t.4 May 641

Bank Stock

Navy 5 per Cent. 9614
5 per Cent. 1797, 94 3ii
Irish 5 per Cent.
4 per Cent. Con. 7361
3 pertenc•Red. 590
per Cent. Con.
Ditto Scrip •
nanki•Ong.Anil. ISI 13
Diltu Stioft Aim. 5 i-151
Ditto Scrip

SECOIII3 REPOR74

COMMItTEE ECRc.Cl'*i

of Elik

Hy ;2SE OF COMMONS:

. COSIitITTEL of SECRECY; to whom the several
Papers, which were presented (sealed up) to the
House, by Mr. CtiAncELLoa of the EXCHIqUER,
upon the tat and'id Days of Apr tl last, by+lts MA-
JESTY'S Command, were referred ; and who. wore di-
rected to examine the MatterS thereof, and report the
same, as they shall appear to thent, tollte kloue :
Have proceeded further in, their examination of
tha Parat, referred to them, and in the investiga-
t;on and consideration of other and more recent
means of information, which have- been furnished .
since the period of their First Report. Part of iliese
.arising from the oral testimony of, persons well ac,
quainted with the state of Ireland, and particularly
with the execution of the powers confided in the
Lord Lieutenant- by' the several aas for the suppres-
sion of the Rebellion in that part of the United
Kingdom, and who,but lately arrived in England,
it would have been impossible for your CoMmittee
tq avail themselves or it, if they had not delayed
longer th.ikt- would otherwise, hive been necessary,
the gepott _which they now submit to the conside-
ration of the. House. •
The Information which, through various chan-
nels, has reached your Committtee, has deVeloped
the views and condud of the disaffeded.in all parts
of the. United Kingdom, as well .as on the Conti-
nent, since the period' when the Report was made
from,the Committee of SeereCy in 1799. Most of
the sources of intelligence, both on that occasion
and the present, are obviously of a nature which,
from every consideration of good faith, humanity,
and policy, it would be highly improper to particu-
larize to 'the House : Your Committee have not
however negle&ed to exa'm'ine into the degree of
credit to +/1-11c11 each of them was fairly entitled :
they have enquired into the general consistency of
the accounts themselves ; the confirmation received
from collateral sources, from the precise coinci-
dence of material,fads with the information' and no-
tice which had been previously given ; from exist-
ing and unquestionable documents, corresponding
with antecedent verbal accounts ; and from the con-
fessions of the aaors themselves ; and have seen
how far all these have been combined through a pe-
riod of several years in the communication of any
individual. This examination has impressed them
with full confidence in. the accuracy of the informa-
tion received,; and what is now submitted to the
House, is the result of the unanimous opinion of
your Commitlee as to the truth of the fads" them-
selves, as well as the consequences which have been
deduced from them.

It was not to be expeaed, that persons who had
deeply imbibed•the principles of the French Revo-
lution ; who were inflamed with' the most sangui-
nary animosity against all the. existing establish-
ments of Church and State; that such of them, par-
ticularly of the lower. orders of society, whose hopes
were instigated by the prosped of the plUnder of.the
rich; and tbe'partition of the landed property of the '
countrY, and who had been taught to
,abjure all. the.
restraints which ,divine or human laws have - im-
posed on the passicins of men ; should be indocea, '
by any change of circumstances, or legal coercion,
suddenly to abandon those principles, and to return
to the duties of loyal and peaceable subjeds : It ac-
cordingly appears manifest, that,' though the exer-
tions of the disafFeded $n this country, were. sup-
pressed by the'vigilance of Government, aeling, un-
der the powers entrusted to them by Parliamcst,
and by the fear of detediort and immediate appre-
hension, yet their disposition'remained unaltered ;
that 'from the month of May 1799, notwithstand-
ing the detention of several of the most aaive Mem-
bers of the late Corresponding Society, others have
continued occasionally to meet, without any form
of regular association, and studiously avoiding any
constant place of assemoling,_or written memorial of
their transadions.—A principal objea at first was
the colleftion of money for the relief of the persons
confined under charge's of treasonable and seditious
.praftices, with whom they seem constantly to have
preserved their former conneaion.—On the sth of
NoveMber 1799, when they began to derive fresh
encouragement from the unfavourable events on the.
Continent, .and the Evacuation of Holland by the
British Troops, a party of, them assembled to ale.,
brate the Anniversary of Hardy's acquittal, on
which occasion they appear first to. have ventured.
on a more open avowal' of their opinions, and to
have indulged in the most treasooal4le and seditious
r toasts and songs. 'As yet,. however, the mischief
went no farther ; and indeed during all this period,
till late in the last year, they seem to have despair-
ed of any immediate success in. their projeds, for ii
which • some of them supposed no favourable op.
portunity would occur till the restoration of ; Peace
should,. as they hoped, have .at once removed the '
legal restraints which now impeded their operatio,
and brought home suchean addition of unemploy!d
hands as would increase
.the existing scarcity., and
add to the prevailing discontents.—They felt them-
selves, and lamented, the effect of the powers en,.
Trusted to Government by the Aft for suspending
the Habeas Corpds.Aa.: their former Leaders were
dispersed and secluded,, and they apprehended for
themselves a. similar fate. Particular events, how..
ever, of the nature before alluded to, had at different
times given some encouragement to their views, and;
'diminished their apprehensions: The successes of
the enemy in the last Campaign, the disappointments
of our Allies, still more Of any eriterprize in which.
this Country was more particularly concerned, or
any danger which threatened the life Or health of
their-Sovereign, were,* they occurred, a constant
source of satisfalion, and of renewed hope and ex..
peaation. - The health of the Chief Consul of France,
the success of his arms, when opposed to those of
their Country ; the progress of the rupture with the
Northern Powers, as a means of impoverishing our
Merchants, and creating distress and 'disc'on tent
among the manufaflurers, were among the first wishes
that marked the complexion sof their convivial
meetings, or expressed the malignity ofgtheir pri-
vate reflellions. The dearth of provisions early
in the last year, opened • new field for similar
speculations, . and the murit of it after the last

tiaiVezt, incrc..lsc:l the inducts eats and the h6pti
tonv.erting it to thcii views ; :of this,
.
well' 2ti of .tither public tab:times; thc7 were
dispoied, avail titeniselves iri .a wty th,tt
marks sufficiently the character o those principlei
whidi lead , the kevoluticuary Enthusiast over-

look; or Make him seek to angnient the Miseries;
.however extended; of . individuals; in the hope of,
deriving froth them the nie.int of subveieni ekist-
ing establishnients: They of indeed openlr
much keling for the sufferings of the people; aid
fomented their com;laititS agaiiiSt the snppo,ed au:
thots of them; bait in 'private they -e4lreiscd their
satisfaaion at the.eontinuance Of the. distreSs; and
were only apprehemi've that the emse of the com-
plaint rn,.!-!;r cease by t return of plenty ; they hoped
partienr riy that the !.caucitY would press hard Upon
the Sold:,;:ry, and pre lure discontent andiniubbrcii-

_ .
nation; arid the better to seive their Cause, thetir
did not scruple tohdd Ctit the most i.mtva4riantia
hopes of success in their er.teniive
.plans of me-
ditated seduetion They disapproved •iiided
the dibposition td riot • which appeared in WIC
places, on account of the scarcity; in' the Month
of September last; as leading to partial and •pre-
mature insurreflion, not sufficiently connetied with
their own more large and Revolutionaty views;
but they thought a period somewhat later more fa-

vourable to their designs) which might be better
advanced by a different linc Qt condat. Linda;

this impression, they promoted t Meeting of a most
dangerous nature, to be held at Kennington Com.:
mon on the 9th of November, by a public adver.
risement, Which was stated to Government at the

time to be issued under their direction ; 'this fact
has since been confirmed by positive deposition upon
oath, and by concurrent to which has been
obtained in consequence of some of the late appre.:
hensions ; from all which it also appears that seve-
ral of the persons above referred to attended, and
that the state of the weather alone preVented their
being present in greater numbers ; other Meetings
were concerted in different parts of the Metropolis
or its vicinity, with a view to dist rad ti:e'attention

of Magistrates, and harass the operations of the Mi.
litary. The first of these however failed, in conse-

quence of the. information
,previouslay afforded to
the Officers of Government, and the presence of
Magistrates ; and .the others were prevented by
die apprehension or deteEtion, from the reward
offerea for the conviaion of the persons concerned
in convening the first. Similar plans were still in

agitation in the following Month, when a seditious
and treasonable handbill, in the form of a Pro-
clamation, was prepared and circulated by a person
lately a leading member of the disaffected Societies,

and who your Committee have reason to believe
was principally concerned in convening the meeting
on Kennington Coinmon, a copy of which is annex-
ed to this Report.

While such were the views, and transa&ions of
the disafreded in England, many of the United
Irish, who had either been driven froni or volun.

,
tarily quitted their oiyn Country, and resorted to
London, seem to have resunitd their former designs,
and to .hav,!
.prepared similar means of carrying
them into cited. They certainly,boasted of having
set on foot the' fabrication of those weapons, here,
'which they had used in the disilstrous Rebellion of
their own Country ; and several Pikes, though pro-
tr.:bly not t:) the number which they were desirous
their friend 4 Should believe, appear certainly to have
been made in different parts .of the Metropolis and
its vicinity, and sheWn.on different occasions iimong
parties of the disaffeded ; some of those adually
engaged in that Rebellion undertook to teach the
use of them ; .and contrails were ;lethally in agita-
ticui with ManufaduTers, described to)rour COM_
mittee,' for furnishing the members of the British
Union with,daggers at a reasonable price. No spe-
cific place was appointed for the meetings which
were held 'between -these different descriptions of
persons, but sufficient intimation was', constantly
given to .thoie concerned, where they might on
most occasions meet the associates of their criminal

designs.
It was not, however, till the commencement of
the present year, that a settled or coMbined plan of
operations seems to have been carried on by any of
the peisons above' referred to. The Aft for pre-
venting Seditious Meetings appears to have expired
before they were generally aware of the circum-
stance ; but the knowledge of it, as soon as circu-
lated amongst them, inspired fresh hopes, and pre.
pared them for less concealed operations, though for
a time they were checked by the apprehension which
they expressed from the continuance of the Law
suspending the Habeas Corpus IV. : the (error of
this preventbd their calling General Meetings as had
.been at first 'suggested ; and it was not .till both'
should be removed, that they intended to execute
the plan which they had concerted for' renewing, in ;
a more dangerotts shape, their secret combinations.
These points gained, a new Association began to
be formed ; the members of which were bound to
each other by an Oath, and distinguished by a sign
known only to the initiated. -

In the forination of this new Society, ten men
were, to have the management of the whole bUsi_.
ness, under the title of Executives, who alone held
Meetings for Jhese purposes ; them communicated,•
by means of a SUperintendant, with. ten others in
each District, celled Comtunors, each of whom was
to have ten men under him, known only, to him-
self; their duty was to swear in, fresh Members,
to transmit a list of their Indies and places of ribode
to the ExeCutives, and such'money.as was collened
for the use of the Society, to the Tre.asurer. The
advantages proposed from this arrangement were—
Secrecy, from the small number of the Executives,
and Celerity in calling large • Meetings together,
through :he intervention of the subordinate gra-
dation of Members, and thus precluding any disco.
very from their associates, by calling them all sud_
dent), into anion, and having them immediately
under the eye of the principal Leaders. A printed
Address, tending to Ineite the People to Insurtec-
tion, was circulated by scam: of these Condittors,
whose duty was.presibed in the: sane paper;
then with the Oath :tbave.mentioncd, whiAt is.. in.
•serted in the Appendix, as aiso another fur a of the
Orders given to the Conhaors.
(To ic cortinkii.)

THE SUN.

st',l FM Qurs pictltE intsUni AUDICAT ?

LONDON, MAY ix, qor.

THE Harnbtirgh Mail due yesterday, arrived
this morning. It has brought us nothing of
portance from' the North of Europe: Admiral
ToTTy was with his Squadron olt' Copenhagen.
The intelligence contained in the Constantinople
atticle from Egypt, has-been anticipated.
From the South of Europe, the News is not more

interesting than from the North, it we except the

dangerous- state of the ARCHDUKE CHARLES'S
health, and the intelligence from France contained
in on: Private Correspondence. Circuitous as this
rokc appears, it is, in the present state of the
French Press, one of the Cew channels to which we
can look for information respeding that Country.

Drse it Es have been received by Government
from Lord Fax ill at Conotwfinop/e, dated on the
Mt ult. These bring the pleasing and important
intelligence, that the= Army of the GRAND. Vt_
zisk, i 5,000 strong, was on the 29th of March
within four days march ef El Arisch, from whetice
it was proposed that it should take the route for
Grand Cairo.'

In our preceding columns we have given the be.
ginning a the Second Report of the Committee of
Secrecy of the House of Commons ; and from the
interesting nature of this Paper, our Readers will
regret that our limits do not permit us to insert the
whole. It will be seen from Mr. ADDINGTON'S
Speech, that the, Report points out two measures to
be adopted ; the' one is the continuance of Martial
Law in Ireland, the other an indemnity to those.
persork,, by whose information this extensive system
of Treason has been discovered. We shall, as the
Parliamentary proceedings will alloW us, continue
our Ex tra&t.,, until we have given
.the whole of the
Report,

Yesterday tile 'Roy 4L. FAmtLY,took an airing
in Richmond Gardens.

Fl/s MAJESTY, accompanied by Their Royal
Highnesses the DUKE. of KENT, and Pa.iNc z ADOI.-
Ps~us, attended by General 61V Y NNE and .Major
Delia Row, rode out on horseback ; as did the
QUEEN and the Ptoric ESSES, in a phaeton,
The second,flattalion of the Coldstream Regiment
of Guards, was yesterdayErviewed by His Royal
Highness he DUKE of YORK, in Hyde Park, ac-
ornpanied by the General Officers of the Regi..
ment,

The Invalid Regiment of Guards march into the
Tower on Monday, to relieve the Battalion of the
1d or Coldstreani Regiment, who are ordered for
duty at Kew and Richmond.

By the overland dispatehfrdm India, received on
Tuesday; we understand that Government has re.
ceivcd advice of the arrival of Admiral BLANKRTT
at Suez, with the Sepoys from India, intended to
eo-operate with the'Egyptiftn Army,

A.Cutter was dispatched on Tuesday to Egypt,
with the Vte of Thanks of the two Houses 'Of Par-
liament- to our gallant Army, and of course with Dis-
patches, announcing the succours which are forth-
with to he sent out. .

An Imperial Rescript has lately , been- issued at
Vienna, which requires all persons holding any
species .of employment under the CroWn, eithertivil
or military, to declare upon honour, and in writing,
that -they do not lielong to_ any secret society what-
s6ever. To 4»y person refusing, an oath will be
tendered ; and in ca.e of the Govermnent ever dis.
coveting impositiqn in this matter, the person de-
ed iy declared, ipsofoff.,, conviaed of. perjury,
is to undo Igo the penalty of being declared infamous,-
and to be trelivered up to the Criminal Tribunals.

The statement ip our Paper of Monday, respe.
ing Hai(ar Bridge, Which We eopic4 from a Ports.
Ineuth Paper, proves to he. erroneous.

Yesterday the magnificent Seat of Woodhall, in
Hertfordshire, formerly belonging to Sir TrioNtAs
P.t.rmai)Lo, and lately to Mr. Bssill Was sold
by Mr, DTK E for the sum of zs,gool. The lot in-
cluded 4.09 acres of land, , inclosed within a park
paling, but subject to a valuation of the timber on
the estate and the fixtures of the house, which may
ruake the whole purchase near 40,0001.
THE THEATRE.--,At length The ORdepw, who
was capitally' topietemfd on his first trial belbre the
Court of. Criticism at Drury-Lane Theatre, but who
contrived to defer his just punishment, was finally
sentenced to merited oblivion last night. A more
numerous concourse of people attended his exit than
could reasonably be expected, btit not one who had
the least pretension to sense and taste could regret
I is fate, except on account of The music, which is
indeed liihlycreditableto the talents ofKELLy, and
to which the prolonged existence of this wretched
Outlay is principally to be attributed..

The ignorance of the French Journalists is con.
spicuous wherever names are concerned, The Ma-
niteur calls the Whig Club the Wights Club.--Such
an error is inexcusable', as it spews a want of grati-
tude anyetling. Our Opposition Papers never made
thC samOlunder with resped to the jacubin Club