The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-13 00:00:00

REPORT OF THE ,BUDGET.

Mr,WitNicroti brought up the Report Oldie Oonl-
nittee of Wilys•and Means; upon one of the Rest;,
lutions of wliich, relpeaing the additional Duty otf
Country Banks; a short conversation took place be:,
tix:ten .Mesars.,TimmEy and PAANELL. QH one side,
rind the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEdiAR, Mr.
ROSE, and Mr. HuStsassoN,.on the other ; the , for,
trier wishing the Resolution to be' postpatied, on the
ground that. no eVidence was produced to the House
as a ground for the cdditional tax ;. that it. held out
advantages to Bankets whose notes Were. payable in
two places, without affording any additional security
to the bolder, and would runt the honest. trader with
small capital, whose hinds would not cliaNe„liim to
establish creditfii London. :By:the latter it was urg-
ed, that thotigh ty)ailual:Cellateral security: was 417.
Lorded by the notes. being 'payable in the Country,
and In London, ,the holders of them had ,a
,positive
evidence()fate existence of some capital afforded by
the' credit in London, that the
.13anker.whose notes.
werd payable only in one place traded with equal-.
advantage and less expeuce than the ether, and wa.4
thercfiire. U proper ohje of increased .diity, and that
the objet of, the addition was as meat to discourage,
persons Withont capital from engaging in this-trade;
whiCh was often prodii&ive of great loss to the per-
sons reposing credit in their solvency. The Report,
as then agreed to, and a Bill 'ordered pursuant
. thereto.
On, the motion 011ie CuANCaltott of the Ett
enap,Uka, the CoMMiitee on the further considers-,
tioii of the Petitions ag-pinst the Orders in Council,;
was put off to this day, and the.several.persons.sum-
Awned' to attend. , Ordered to attend accordingly.
The Spirit DifiWback hill pasped through a_ Corn-
mittee,and was ordered to be Aported to-day.
The Irish .Glebe Houses Bill was read a second
time, committed, and the Report brought up which
Was ordered to be printed,- and taken Into further
consideration on Tuesday, the 2tith instant. •
The Committee on the' Assessed Taxes Bill stitti
put off to this day. •
A new Writ- Was ordeted for the Borough of
Sandwich, in The room of Admiral Raibier, deceased.
Adjourned at One o'clock:

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WEDVESDAY, APRIL 13, 1 SOS.

WE are at length crmblcd to communicate to our
Readers authentic intHligence respe4ing the Roche-
.fqrt Squadron. All the accounts which have reached
Its through the medium of American Captains—all
the statements which were so artfully inserted in the
French Papers, respecting the Rochefort Squadron
having passed the Streights, into the Mediterranean,
appear to have been wholly without foundation.—
The RciChefort *Squadixin did not pass the Streights,
but directed their course Tor the West Indies.
The Abraham., ftdru St. Domingo, arrived at Lan-
caster on Monday lat, and has the following Intelli-
gence inserted in her Log-book, by the Hon. G. .A.
CaOkTON, of His Majetty's Brig Demerara, who
had been dispatched to Bermuda by Sir J. T. D,UCK-•
WORTH, off Mat Unique; and wsi on his return to
the Leeward Wands

is Monday, 14t4 March, lat. 30. long. 63. 4t.

" On Monday, 7th inst. the Mullet Schooner felt
in with a French Squadron, consisting of six Sail of
the Line,, one a three-decker, in lat. a t . N. long. 6g.
W. steering W.N.W. and kept company with thew
three hours."

The above important intelligence, we,understand,
was fully credited at the Admiralty, and was.putup
at LLoto's. From the last accounts which' reached
us from the West Indies, We think there is a great
probability that DUCKWORTH will. fall in With,
this Squadron. From the latitude and longitUde iu
which the French.. Squadron were seen, there can' be.
little doubt that they were going to the Chesapeake,
and: if our Calculations "are not very.erroneous; they
wl' meetthe British Squadron somewhere about
the mouth of: that
.River. Sir Joas left Dominica
.for St. Domingo on the: 16th
.of February, 'and.
in the event. of his not finding the-French at the lat-,
ter Island, ;he would proceed dire& for the chesa.
pOke, :where he would,, probably arrive about the
Bth of March. The French Squadron,' judgingfrom.
the latitude and longitude in which,they were seen
by.the Mallet, would reach the C4hesapeake about
the 12th. There appears, therefore, strong reason to
hope that we Shall soon receive a satisfadory account
of thiS Squadron.

.Qua Readers need not be reminded of the attacks
the,Opposition Writers upon our Naval. Adtuiui-
t.ti'atlone and our repeated contraOtions of all their
false reports relative to the state
,of Sir Rtettatin
STRACIIAN.S, squadron as to provisiens, thq,,want- of
which, it was alledged by those Writers, preventp'
' him from immediately pursuing the. Rochefort &Ina-
deen. The Letter liOln Sir R. S-14tACHAN, whieb
we inserted yesterday', fully justifies . all that we
stated in- contradidtion to those insidious and niale
volent reports, for in that Letter,: Which is dated.
the 16th of January, he says, " I feel.most sensibly
the prompt' ifinn 'which' has been paid to the
Wants ,of,the Squadron ; ' the liberal relief ..whia:
their Lordships have been pleased to send has te-
moved all unfavourable state
of the weather alone prevented Sliy Rtetraan froM
gettliik lii thd whole -of. the supplies-,till the igth
and It was not till the 93d Oat' he first rgeeiv'eii
ntelligende of the escape of the Enemy, The
same.uufavourable state of the weather, " the most
tempestuous that he had ever experienced,'
tained liim in the. BaY till the 29th.. After such ,
a complete,. confirmation of all we, Said in contra-
diaion to the -'malignant rumours' alluded to, no
further comment it necessary on outpart.

We liave received soth more Fureig,n Papers,
,xtraas from which will be found in a aubsegusent
Column.

Lour) ts.sit.zia.tott last night brought forward
'his Plan for improving the Intern ,:l Defence of the
Country, The.leadinobjea of thictueasure is the
establishment of a Local Militia; to be raised by•
Ballot, and by Volunteering. Every Person, balloted.
is to ierve iti'perion, no Substitutes being, allowed, c3t=
cept in very Particular cases. I.'he rrntining is to pro—
ceed'imPoace as well as War, and each person is to serve
foiar years ; so that in time thetwhole population of
the country will ha trained to the Use of arms, The
artioiiitt of the Local-Militia, to tae called out. in the
first instance, is 60,000. We are prevented by want
atonal fromoffering any comments upon this Plan;
and Must refer our Readers for the details to the
achnitilble 'Speech with which it was introduced by
'Lptets,CAriLitAßA.

MAJ ESTY. Princesses Avoucra.
and Si3pitiA, took an airing on horseback in Windser
Pail:, soon 'after ten, aitended by Lady ALIIthA
Cued 8 BELA rip, Count Mu NSTRIti Getter4S GWYNNIE
'FITZ ROY, "Colollel TAYLOR, and Mr. Vtuttats
they returned to the Palace about twelve.
ThL-Gaiette of last night contains a Letter from
Capt- 8.Q1.11' ERIE, of hits Majesty's Ship Ateibisa,
giving all kcceent of his having eapturc.l.. on the
4th,cljf,Lugger Privateer, of Dieppe,
mounting 14 guns.

ran idiv rATELLIGENCe.

PRIVATE, CORR P_SPONDENCE;

*BANICS. Oi'DFIE Ez.nk, MARCII .Ex.pedl:.
lion againsf Sv,-ed'en- appears' to be for the pi•eient'
abandoned. Oct the 27th nit, the French and
Spanish Troops= received notice. that 'thong!) they
ought to-,hold themwlves in` diii-stant ieaditiess
triareb, the- itxpedition Wou!d not take place, ai
VINS intended; at the beginning of the present mouth
bui furtherorders from Paris were waited for. 'Some .
attribute this to the Necroiiatione whiCh have laieLy
.taken place bqtween Marshal BEIINADOTTE and the
PaiNca

We have had a report here from Eliineur,
;.',OOO men, of the Hanoverian Legion, in thirtytorte
Transports, cont'pyed by two Ships of.the Line and
a Frigate; -had. landed near Gittenburgh, and that
more troops Are .expeaed. There are now, it is
said, four English. Ships of the Line, four Frigmeg,
and some smaller` essels; in the Frarbour.q.Got ten-
burgh; and, according to some private Letters, fif-
teen more British Ships of the Line, and
derable body, of troops,.are speedily- expeded there.
The Sw;cdishConsul GRA r‘r , who hasben under a 1.,.
rest for some time at Copenhagea, has been sentenced'
.to pay a tine of 3000 rix-dollars for his 'imprudent
condlid during the stay of. the Englisli :Ships of War
there. A Merchant of the name 6f LUTKINS has:
' likewise been sentenced to a fine of .:Jock, en a shnilai:
charge. A very respedahle Commercial House irt.:
this part of Germany, has received- adviee from a
Correstioncient'aT Marsellic;; ;het ever since the be-
glrf n lug of,last.month, all tivt carriages in theSozith
ofFrtince have been pt t.in replisition to early pro-
visions to Toulon, to vidual and supply the Fleet.
A.total-chauge of Govz..,rnmt4nt seems to, threated
liome, Where Frenct.Troops, it is expeded,;will
, seize the treasures, 44. the Convents, in the same
manner as they did in Portugal. The French Gene-,
ral Miouts, when' he entered Borne, ordered can- ~
,
non to
.be planted before the. POpe's Palace; but ori
his Holiness expressing great uneasiness, and Making
many Complaints, they Were. removed.

AcCOUntS from Magdeburgh say, that the EntPe.;'
ror 'll'ive.oi..eoY, notwithstanding ail the represeuta=
tions made by the .Deputies from: that city, and even
the inteteeikn of* new Sovereign, insists on the
arrearp of the war contribution, threatening, if they
are not pdidis to rnarci) 39,p0.0 wen into tne au by
'of -Maidetiurgls, now the d4arttnerit of the Elle.
The war contribution wps in the witA i2,1e9,076
livres, andnitust be pi., at ttared times; to a Catii-
mittee appointed for that purpose by the King of
'Westphalia.

.According to sonze. private+ advice s, a great Tram-
port, With provisions, boond to has been La. 14(42
by the Is'ng.l4l.

PLYMOUTH, AP4I,T., 1,.-.--Artiv'ed the lielterf:Aon;',
of ,7 4 gut”i,froin•Torbay ; the Pioner Sloop of War,
from a_ .ernize 3 arid:the 11plin, from Ntadei-6,
with .wine andfrnit for ihis.Port.

Sailed the Pailtts, Frigare'on a crnize to the MieS t
ward,
rtie Unicorn Frigate is come into Harbour to refi't.

PORTS11;104TII, APRIL, t 2.----S ailed this 0;17 tht
Goshawk Brig, C.ipt.. frrNris,. Peacvok Brig, Cart.
PRAM:, and Hardly and Dapper Gun-brigs, on 5,-.).pa
rate orteze,s,

.Ile .Dryad Frigate has eipfuroti and sent into
this` Port. the French PrAiateer .13ri,g Le Reitnitr, of ";
Bourdeatix.

A' letter frOm Gibraltar, orthe .23d ult. gives the
following,particular4 of the progress of the French
in'Spain :—"‘The provinces of Catalonia, Navarre,
and Biscay, no longer helot% to the Spanish Monar-
chy. They are taken rioskession of by the FrenA
troops Land the Grand Duke of BURG has publishwi
a Proclamation, st:iting that this inettsurn- is. taken for
paciat purposes, This Proclamation has oCeasioned
falLin the Valeii from
.6J:to 60. The nuMber *of
French troops whiCh have entered Sean* 'exceeLls •
i.5u,0 00 two:"

•
A letter 'frail cateutta; dated the ed of Decem-
her; Mires, that Sir Gioacm BARLOW' was proceed-
ing to Madras, in the Sceptre Man of War. IVl-
oitAm MONF:r, Escf.'accompanied him as ins private
Secretary. • We are sorry to add, that apprehensioni
Were entertained of a Mahratta war.
On Monday,morning a. man, who'is 48 years of
age, and Weighs I ti stone, undertook, for a weer of
2,0 guineas, to run 'on yards;, while tied in a tive,,
bushel sack, in six minutes, in NVindsor Park.. ,'=fl
started about „seven O'clock, in the Long Walk
BertOrtned his undertaking in three titinutestand 4t
svcands; to the astonishment of several hundred spee-I_
tators, who were,assembled on the occasion,
RORBERY:---A person very well'dressed, went on
I?riday evening into • the shop of ,"fir: ,KEATINoi
jeWeller, in the Strand; and asked to look, at some
diamond rings. Mr. KEATINo's man having some
l'etson for suspicion, shewed him only pisk On",
which the caber, doubtless considered as cliamonus.
'Undok pretence of sheaving something
,valuable of
his own, the tellow palled out a small hag of snuff,
threw the contents into the shnprnan's eyes,/ and
ran otT with four of the prick rings, while tbe poor
man was agonized with,blindness and pain.
• CORN ,EXCIIANOR, APRIL la:—There are sqveral
fresh arrivas of Wheat to-day—t hat of second and -
ordinary cipalityis at less price'; auley is ready sale.
and full
,as dear ; Malt and Beans df 116411 sorts 'vary
but little; having large- supplies of White Pelose,
„.
partly,,from Sweden, causcis reunaton in pi kje, tins '
week of full t Os. per gparter ; and the O.:114 ,fully at
last prices; flour without alteration.