The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-20 00:00:00

IRISH STAMP ACTS.

Mr. W. POLE moved, that the ilouse should re-
solve itself into a Commis:the, to take these Acts
into consideration ; his object was, as he had be
fore stated, to propose the consolidation of the
Irish Stamp Acts, a measure from which, in hiS
opinion, considerable benefit would arise.

' Sir JOCIN NEWPORT said,. that -it was impos-.
sible to understand complicated regulations of
this kind, from the statement of any Honour able_
Member. It was absolutely necessary that 4hey
should be printed, otherwise it Nv outd be impos
sible for the House thoroughly to understand them.
'He disapproved of the practice of bringing for
ward measures of this sort late in the Session, and
then'proptising to pass diem without their being
:printed. There were two othex Regulation Bills
now in progress under similar eirounstances. •
Mr. POLE, said, the Right Hon. Baronet labour

eel under a considerable error respecting the two
Bills Which he had mentioned. The Bill respect-
ing the Customs was brought in yester4y, arid
read a first time, and was read a second time on
this day. The Right Hon. Bart. was present
when it was read, and never said one word about
printing it, or he should not have objected to it.
The Bill respecting the Excise was not yet brought
in ; it was at the Bar, and when it was brougl:t in,
he should certainly not oppose the printing of it;
if the lion. Baronet. desired it. With regard to
the present measure, it was his intention to pro
pose- to have both the Schedule and the Bill
printed.
_ . _ _ _

--Sir J. INEWPDRI' said, the Bill alluded to had
beets. placed On the paper as the Irish Custortis
,Bill, and not as the Irish Custonis Regulation Bill.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee,

Mr. W. POLE said, it was not necessary for
hiM to trouble:the Committee long- upon this sub,
ject ; he should merely state, that great incon-
venience had arisen in consequence of thei,:egula-
tions respecting stamps being.contained in several
acts of Parliament. He proposed to consolidate
all these various acts of Parliament into one ge
neral Act, and to direct the commissioners of
tamps to print in distinct parts the regulations
attaching to the different heads of Stamps. The
only material alterations he proposed to make re•
lifted to cards and dice, Which' had, hitherto been ,
under the Excise, and he now proposed to bring
them under the Commissioners of Stamps. He
ShoUld also suggest an alteration in the Advere-
tiSement Duty. At present the duty was in pro.
portion to the iength of the advertisement, in-
'creasing one shilling every ten lines ; he proposed
thiit the duty shO nld -on-iu the slims" man-,
ner that it :A-as in 'England, where the duty, was '
three shillings whether the alvertisemeut was
long or short. The duty in Ireland, however, \
he intended to make 2s. 6d. instead of 3s. This
regulation, he understood, was very much ap-
proved.of by the persons concerned in the trade.
Sir JoHN NEWPORT said; that as the Right Hon.
Oentleman vas regulating the Stamp-Office, he
hoped he would put it upon abetter footing than
. it was before; for when an order had been ,made,
some time ago; for a return of the duty on the
probate of wills,. the answer was, that the return
could not be made.

MI. IV: POLE said, that the Right
,Mon. Baro-
net, who was Chancellor of the ExcheqUer in
180., did attempt some regulations, but he cer-
tainly did leave this office in a very.slovenly state,
and the gieatest exertions had been made since to
pat. it on a ,better footing; and he hoped that
when the 'Ugh< Hon. Baronet
,came into office
again, he would find that a very great.improve,
went had been made.

,Sir Joirw NEWPORT said, that it was not the
business of the Chancellor of the li,xehequer to
superintend, the. interior regulations of these:of-
fices : that day belonged to the Commissioners.
The Resoltitions were 'agreed to.
Mr. POLE rose to move to bring in .a Bill to re-
gulate the Butter Trade in Ireland, by putting tlyle
whole of the trade, With respect to the packing
of the butter, on the same footing that it was at
Cork.

The motion was agreed to, and the Bill brought
in and'read a first time,

Mr. W. POLE movedfor and obtained leave to
bring in a Bill for regulating the Baking Tr6.de
in Ireland,. He said it was hiiiintaition, as this-
was a subject of great • cousf:quence, to move to
have the Bill printed, and to let it stand. ever
till next_ Session. The Bill was brought in and
read a firstlinie.

The other ',orders of the day.were disposed of,
and the House adjourned.

Mostc.—The rooms in • Argyle=strpet were
. °peva on Wednesday last; for the benefit of Kiss
PATON, a very extraordinary child, from Scotland,
whose performance at Mrs. Concert
have .before'noticed. She is, we Understand,
about nine 'years of age, In a duet fur the harp
,and piano-forte, on Wednesday; between her acid
Sir GEORGE SMART, her skill on the former in-
strument was surprising, for fullness of tone, de-
licacy of touch, and brilliancy of execution.-
displayed similar excellence with the same per-
former in a duet 'for the piano-forte, and sung,
an I accompanied herself on the harp, in the.cele-
brated air of Nel cor'piu non me senli, with 1-aria.,
tions, in the style of CATALANI. Shp-also recited
COLLINS'S ;Ode on the Passions, 'another poem.
entitled TheFlpicers, and concluded with a poetical
addrdsS to the,audience. She received throughout
great applause, which she fully deserved. We
cannot, however, help ialthilatin;;, that her talents
are strained' too Much; and that at pr:?serit they
should be wholly directed to the Harp and Piano-
forte, till time has strengthened her organs, and
her mind is expanded and cultivated, and then,
we doubt not that she will slew great variety of
Rowers. The Concert was. led by WEicHstu...,
and had the support of a good band, as 'well as
the vocal exertions of Mr. and Mrs. Lacy.

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SOLENI ejUIS IMCV.P.E FALSUM AuDEAT ?

LONDON,

SATURDAY, 3t"cE 20, 1812.

Government this day received letters from Lord
WELLyst,Tow, dated the 3d inst.: Head-quar-
ters arc still at Fuentes de Guinaldo, Tke
army Was moving towards the l'omes. The
Guerillas have been very succeszful, and were
daily augmenting in force.

7 •
This morningLisbonPapers arrived, from hick
we have made/some interesting extracts.

The Laarestinus frigate, which. Nye mentioned
yesterdayhad arrived on Thursdaylast atPlymoutli,
b' ought letters from the River 'n ate. and- Rio 4.-
neiro ; from the former place to the Ist of April,
and to the 20th of the same month from the lat-
ter. The intestine divisions among the Spaniards
of South .Araerica had again broken out. The
army from Buerws Ayres had passed to the oppo-
site side of the water, for the purpose of attacking.
Monte Video. On the other hand, the squadron
of Monte 'Video had again placed itself before
Buenos Ayres, and would probably lay it 'in ruins.
The Juntaof-Buenos Ayres, it seems, had not re-
,
cognised -Mr. STAPLETON as Vice-Consul from
this country, owing to the want of some forma-
lities in his credentials; We are sorry to learn
that Lord STRANGFORE! had in some degree o&
fended the Portuguese Government,- by protect-
ing an Englishman of the name of BILLINGHURST,
who
.hr,,:f been accused of attempting to excite'
sedition iii the Portuguese army.—This man, it
seems, 14 served in the Buenos Ayres army. He
had been claimed as a British ,subject by Lord
S r RANGFORD, but the • Portuguese Government
had ref Used to deliver him ,up.- It was not; how-
ever,' expected that the matter would have a
serious end. .

A very interesting conversation took place yes-
terday in the House of Commons respecting the
late Negticiationsi Mr: SHERIDAN was sufficient-
ly recovered to resume his statement, and a more
complete refutation of the calumnies, which his
. old friends have circulated against him, it is dif-
ficult to conceive.. So far from baying intrigued,
as has been asserted, to keep Lords GREY and
GRENirILLE out of office; be used every means in
his power to bring them in. Most fortunately,
indeed, for the country his efforts. were un-
successful : the failure, however, is only to be
attributed to the unreasonable pretensions-, to
•
use.nci stronger language,, of the leaders of the
.Party. Mr. WHITBREAD bore ample testimony
to 'the earnestness with whin Mr. SHERIDAN eh-
deayourecl-to bring his old political friends into
office. These friends • not only defeated his
efforts by their arrogance and their folly, but
either attacked, or ,countenanced the attacks,
that were nfade upon him for intriguing to
keep them out of office.' It appeared quite,
clearly, from 'what passed yesterday; that Mr.
WHITBREAD totally disapproved of tht conduct
of the Party, in declining the gracious offers that
were made to them to come into office. It is sin-
gular that he has escaped animadversion, for pre-
suming to think'for himself upon this subject. Mr.
TIERNEY complained, that there ...was quite a cla-
inour.against Ltirds GREY and GazNyit.r.a for their
conduct on this occasion : it is- iffy true, we
believe, that the conduct of those Noble Lords
is disapproved. of from one end •of the king-
dom to the other ; but is .it singular
.that
the public should censure their conduct, when it
is blamed by the ablest men of their party, Lord
MOIRA, Mr. SHERIDAN, and Mr. WHITBREAD
We perfectly agree, with > Sir' F. BURDETT in the
panegyric which he v ronclinced upon theßati.E NT' s
conduct during these transactions, and we lave
not the least doubt that he, _upon this occasion;
spoke the sense of 'an infinite majority of the. in-
habitants of these kingdtims.

Yesterdnythe PRINCE REGENT held a Levee at
Carlton-house.

After the Levee his Royal Highness held a
Chapter -of the Most Noble Order of the'Garter.
After the Knights had robed,- they, proceeded. to
the PRINCE REGENT's Closet, whence the prO-
ceslion was made 'to the Throne Room, where
the Chapter was held, and the ,bake of New-
CASTLE was elected and invested in the usual forms.

The PRINCE REGENT then retired to his closet,
where a. deputation from the General Society of
Riends, commonly Quakers,
,presented a
petition from the Society, praying his Royal
highness for Peace ; to which the PRINCE RE-
GENT was *pleased to return a most gracious an-
swer.

Prev 9us to the Chapter, the .Rev. Dr. LAW
Aid homage before the TiinccE. REGENT, in. his
-Closet,upon his being;.. appointed Bishop of
Chester, in the rooni.of Dr. SPARSE, translated
to the BishopriCk of Ely.
Mr. JEKYLL is to succeed Mr. GARROW, as
Attornev2General to the. PRINCE of WALES ; and
it is reported that Mr. 'RAINE succeed Mr.
JEKYLL, as Solicitor7General to his Royal High-
'mess: