The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-28 00:00:00

MARGATE, Sett. 26.

THE public anmsements of this place during the
last week have been much the same as usual. Tan_
dems, gigs, curricles, coaches, chaises, chatiots,
sulkies, sociables, and horses of every kind and co-
lour, have been abundant. Riders, from the adren-
turous ruler of the bit of blood, to him who conde-
scends to grace a one.eyed carter, are to be found'
in plenty. The weather has been so-fine that Mar-
gate has exhibited the whole world in miniature.
On Monday There was a Ball at KtnDMAN'S, but
thinly attended. On Tuesday there was a Public
Breakfast at the Prospea Bowling-green. The
place was crowded with almost every pattern of
rank and calling.

The Theatre was that night patronized by the
Right Hon. Miss FITZROY. The Play was Laogh
when
_pm Can, for the Benefit of Miss FITZGE-
RALD. We are sorry the title of her Comedy was
not an omen of her success. Ramsgate indeed rob-
bed us that evening of most of our rashionables.—
The occasion was the Benefit of Mr. LE BAS, the
Master of the Ceremonies, who had nearly 400
persons, all of our first people. On Wednesday
there was a Public Breakfast at Dandelion ; but in
consequence of the preceding Ball, it was very in-
differently attended.

The Way to get Married was represented at the
Theatre for the Benefit of Mrs.• LEE, hut we re-
gretted so few seemed inclined to attend for the
purpose of learning that happy art. On Thursday
all the world and his wife attended the Grand
Season Ball at KIDDNIAN'S.

Friday evening, the Right Hon. Lady BESBO-
ROUGH patronized Mrs. INCH BALD'S Benefit. The
Play was Such Things Are, written by the well_
known Mrs. INCHBALD, mother-in-law of our
Adress's late husband. There was a very elegant
'Audience at the Theatre, which was graced by the
Durchess of DEVONSHIRE.

A Public Brekfast at Dandelion took place on
Saturday morning. The East Kent Band was en.
gaged for the occasion ; admittance. two shillings,
About four hundred persons were present.
MUNDEN in the evening played Peter Post Obit.
He sung two Songs,. and obtained great applause.
HILL and Mrs. ATKINS also performed here the
same nigl-t Belville and Rosina.• The Boxes were
crowded, and the rest of the House well attended.
These entertainments were for the Benefit of Miss
CLAKKE.` .

The Dutchess of DEVONSHIRE is to give a Pub_
1k Breakfast at the Prospeft Bowling-green, if the
weather permit.—Of course it will be a• splendid
repast.

EPITA PH,
In the Cathedral Churchyard of Winchester, on a Grenadier of
the Hampshire Militia.
Y TOM WHARTON, LATE POET LAUREAT.

Here lies an Hampshire Grenadier,
Who caught his death by drinking cold-small beer;
Soldiers! beware, by his untimely fall,
When hot, drink strong, or none at all.

Last night, about eleven o'clock, a fire broke
out at the new Assembly-Rooms building behind
Russell-square, and near Somers-town. Orders had
lately been given that the men should work by
candlelight, to finish the rooms soon, as it was in-
tended to open them at Christmas. They tbrm a
noble pile of buildings. It is supposed the
workmen left some candle-snuffings behind them,
and that this set fire to the premises, as the
cause cannot be exactly ascertained. It was
past twelve before water was procured ; and by
this time the whole pile of building was consumed,
the roof having fallen in. Before one, the flames
were got much under, and were expiring. At no
tittle was there danger of the fire communicating to
other premises; but of the Assem)ty-R9otns, the
walls only are left standing. No lives were lost, nor
did any other accident happen. The flames were so
extensive, they illuminated all the streets, even
about Covent-garden, and attrade&great crowds to
the spot.
Sunday se'nnight, in the evening, between the
hours of seven and nine, ten different persons were
robbed on the road between Winslow and Ayles-
bury, by a highwayman, well mounted. He was
pursued from Aylesbury, but got clear off.
Gutt.oHALL.—,-SeVeral assaults came before Al-
derman CuaTts, the Sitting Alderman yesterday,
one of which the Constable called charge for
(barge. The first was given by a decent looking
woman against a soldier, who, she said, had push-
el violently against her in Fleet-market, and upon
her speaking to him, he again jostled against her,
and while swearing violently at her, this Constable
came out of a gin-shop, persuaded her to give charge
of him, which she had no sooner done than he per_
suaded the soldier to give charge of her. This
being done, he, with the assistance of another Con-
stable dragged her to the Compter in a biutal man-
ner' bruising her in many places, which she shewed
the Magistrate. This was corroborated by a female
friend who was ,in company with her, who said that
Lee, the Constable, knew them both very well to be
respectable Women, but although she offered to for-
give the Soldier several times, yet he insisted upon
takine, them both to the Compter.
The Soldier, in his defence, confessed that he had
been pushed twice against this Gentlewoman by ac-
cident, and that she would have forgiven him, 'but
the Constable would not let her, and at the same
time the Constable whispered him to charge her,
and he would get him clear. All this the Alderman
heard with patience, and asked the Constable what he
could say in defence of such conduct. He said he
was a street-keeper in Holborn,
,and- paid by a
subscription of Gentlemen ; but neitlier he nor the
other Constable could clear themselves for such con_
duff. The evidence being taken down, the worthy
Alderman said he was always happy to protect an
officer in doing his duty, hut he would equally punish
any Constable who should go beyond his duty. He
should order the City Solicitor to prosecute the
Constable Lee at the City's expence; and dis-
charged the Soldier to give evidence against him.
The other Constable begged pardon, saying he aced
under Lee,"not knowing what the charge was. Lee
was ordered to find bail. -

LAND-TAX REDEMPTION.

, A STATEMENT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE

LORDS COMMISSIONERS,

FOR REGULATING, DIRECTING, APPROVING, AND
CONFIRMING ALL SALES, AND CoNTRA.Crs FOR
SALE, MADE BY BODIES POLITIC OR CORPO-
RATE, OR COMPANIES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
REDEEMING THEIR LAND.TA.X.

To the Right Honourable the Loris Spi.itual
end Temporal of the United King-dam of
Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament
assembled.
" THE Lords Commissioners for regulating, di-
reCting, approving, and confirming all Sales, and
Contracts for Sale, made by Bodies Politic or Cor-
porate, or Companies, for the purpose of redeeming
their Land Tax," have received His Majesty's
direabns, to lay before the House of Lords a State-
meno of their Proceedings, distinguishing the
number and value of the Sales, and Contrafts
for Sale, approved by the said Commissioners ;
the amount of Land Tax redeemed, or to be re-
deemed, by virtue of such Sales, and Contrafts
for Sale ; the quantity of Stock purchased by
the produce of such Sales ; the gain to the Public
resulting from the Proceedings under the said Com-
mission ; the expence incurred, and the estimated
value of the entire property of which the tenure has
been, or will be changed, by the effect of such Sales,
or Contrafts for Sale.
And the said Commissioners report accordingly :
a. By an A6l passed the zest of March, 179'9,
" to amend and render more effedual the preceding
:Ads for the Redemption and Purchase of the Land-
Tax," it was made lawful for His Majesty to ap-
point seven persons of His Majesty's most Honour-
able Privy Council to be Commissioners for regu-
lating, directing, approving, and confirming all
Sales, and Contraas for Sale, made by Bodies Po-
lieic or Corporate, or Companies, for the purposes
of redeeming any Land Tax charged on any of the
manors, messuages, lands, tenements, or heredita-
ments belonging to such Bodies Politic or Corporate,
or Companies.
And His Majesty by Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the 26th
of March, 1799, nominated and appointed the Right
Hon. Wm. Lord Auckland, the Right Hon. Henry
.Addington (then Speaker of the House of Corn_
mom), the Right Hon. Wm. Pitt, the Right Hon.
the Master of the Rolls (now Lord Alvanley), the
Right Hon. Sir Wm. Wynne, Knight, the Right
Hon. the Lord Chief Baron, and the Right Hon.
Sylvester Douglas (now Lord Gienbervie), for the
purposes of the said recited Mt; and with authori-
ty to any two or more of the said Commissioners to
do any aCt, matter, 'or thing, which by the said
Commission the said Commissioners are authorized
to do : and various legislative provisions have since
been made to facilitate and extend the operation and
effeCt of the said Commission.
2. The Lords Commissioners, on the z9th of
March, 1799, severally took the oath prescribed by
the At of Parliament, .end afterwards entered upon
the execution of their office. Their meetings have
been continued from time to tima by
of more or less frequency, according to the nature
and importance of the business to be transacted ;
and !he Commissioners have acted with the advice
of Counsel, in such cases as have been thought to
require professional assistance.
In adjusting and approving the terms and condi-
tionsof Sale, it has been anxiously and invariably
the cojee_"l.- of the Lords Commissioners, to establish
and oaintain certain uniform principles,- calculated
to prevent any improvident Sales ; and beneficial,
as well as safe, to the property of the Church, and
.of otter Corporate Badies, as far as might be corn-
patil* with the nature of the property to be dis-
posed of, and with the different tenures to which
that iroperty might be subjett.
Pursuing these principies, the Board have found
it necessary to discuss many questions of intricacy
,and detail, with respett both to legal constructions,
and to modes of valuation.
Their Minutes and Decisions have been conse-
quently very voluminous, and have been accurately
and carefully entered and preserved.
Tie. Lords Commissioners" take this occasion to
acknowledge the ready and efficient assistance and
attention which they have experienced from time to
time limn His Majesty's Law Officers, from the
DireCtors of the Bank, the Commissioners for the
Reduction of the National Debt, and from the Offi-
cers of the Bank of England.
The current business of the Commissioners, as
will appear in the two following SeCtions of this
Report, is gradually diminishing ; still, however,
it is considerable and important.
3. The number of Sales, and Contrafts for Sale,
approved by the Commissioners, has been,

Sales.

From the zyth March 1799 to the 28th
March 1800 - - - - 895
From the 29th March 1800 to the 28th
March 1801 - - - 433

From the 2gth March t Sot to the gth
June 1802 277

t 6os

4. The value of the Sales, and Contra&s for
Sale, vas,
In the first of the above periods 134678
In the ►econd _ 227,420
In the third 161,736

£ 753)834

And the said sum of 753,8341. was obtained in
the folbwing proportions, from Sales made by the
differett descriptions of Ecclesiastical and other
Corpotste Bodies :

1. s. d.
Archbishop of Canterbury, and six-
teen of the Bishops - - 189,493 16 3
Deans and, Chapters - -286,98 z 12 4
Reaot and Vicars - - 10°,187 340
CoDews and Prebends - 85,228 1 I 3
Lay (orporations 91,942 I I I

753,834 14 9

5. The mount. of Land Tax redeemed, or to he
redeemed, by virtue of such Sales, and Contrads for
Sale, cannot yet be stated with precision, as, in
several instances, the money arising from Sales ap..
proved and confi:med by the Lards Commissioners,
has not yet been paid into the Bank ; besides
which, the property sold by the Corporate Bodies,
being required' y law to be sold free and discharg.
ed from Land Tax, the Land Tax- has, in very
many cases, by agreement between the Parties,
been freed by the Lessee or Purchaser at his ex-
pence. It is therefore difficult to ascertain what
amount of Land Tax may !lave been redeemed by
this part of the operation. On the whole, how..
ever, the amount of Lind Tax redeemed by virtue
of the aforesaid Sales, and Contracts for Sale, may
be estimated at 35,c001. per Annum.
6. The quantity, of Stock 1;1d-chased by the Bank
from the produce of such Sides is 1,013,006. ex-
elusive of the sums not paid into the Bank, and also
of sums not yet ()rough: to account, amounting
together, by estimate, to 200,0001. Stock.
7. The gain us,.d.,ing to the Public Cram the
proceedings unier the Commi,sion, consists most
immediately in the I-eleventh required by tine.
Alts to be paid to the Public, beyond the value of
the Land Tax redeemed, and such gain cannot be
stated at less than '16,0001. Stock ; and this is
exclusive of the Land Tax redeemed by the Lessees
and Purchasers of many considerable parcels of the
property sold to them. A further gain resulting
to the Public from the Proceedings under the Com-
mission, is to be found in the general operation of
the Redemption of the Land Tax, particularly by
creating a daily demand of a certain proportion of
Stock, which can never be brought back into the
market.

The effea of that circumstance is evidently here_
ficial, and public credit has been materially assisted
by thus withdrawing from the market nearly Twen-
ty Milliona of Stock, in little more than three
years, for the redemption of the Land Tax.
There are also other descriptions of gain to the
Public which are not inconsiderable when colicaive-
•ly taken : by the accumulation of the i-eleventh
beyond the amoant of the Land Tax sold ; by the
saving of the allowances to the Receivers General.;
by the stamps on renewal of leases and on convey-
ances of settled leasehold estates : and, in a more
direCl point of view, the Sales made by the Pro-
ceedings under the Commission, may be considered
as beneficial to the Public, by giving local accom-
modations to the Purchasers, by multiplying the
means of improvement, and by increasing the reve-
nues of the Corporate Bodies, in some instances,
very considerably.

8. The expellee incurred has been restriEled
within the narrowest limits to the salaries of a
Chief Secretary, Assistant, and Clerks, the fees of
Counsel, the rent of the Office, and certain small
incidents ; the whole amounting on the average of
three years to about 15501. per annum.
9. The value of the entire property, of which
the tenure has been changed by the effea of the
Sales and Contrads for Sale, has been compared tb
be not less than three times the amount of the whole
sum received. Assuming this computation to be
well founded, the amount sold or contracted for
bciug 753,6341 the value in fee of .the whole pro-
perty transferred from Corporate Bodies will be
2,261,5021.
The Prices approved in Sales, and Contraas for
Sale, have varied from six to nine years purchase
for the reversion in fee of lands and tythes under
leases for three lives ; from eight to fourteen►
years purchase for the reversion in fee of leases for
twenty-one years ; five years purchase has been
taken for houses let for thirty years ; and three
years for the reversion in fee of leases for forty
years.. Reserved rents and property not let on
beneficial leases have been sold for twenty-five to
thirty years purchase.
so. There cannot be a doubt, that these Sales
are convenient to Purchasers, advantageous to the
Sellers and their Successors, and highly beneficial to
the Public in general,. and therefore the Lords
Commissioners would gladly have added to this
Report some estimate of the proportion of land-tax
payable, and not yet redeemed by the Bodies Cor.
pora te.

It is, however, difficult to arrive at any certainty'
in this part of the inquiry. It is probable that the ,
proportion of Land Tax redeemed by the Corporate
Bodies and their Lessees may exceed the proportion
as yet redeemed by other descriptions of property
chargeable with Lind ; still, however, it !nay
be estimated that more than two thirds remain
unredeemed. •

ii. The general results may be stated to he,

That the taunber of Saks approved is 16-4:

- That the a.nount in money. of f such Sales ;o ap-
proved is 753,834.1. sterling.
That the valtie in fee simple of the property sold
is above 2,0b0,0001. sterling :
That tire stock purchased for the redemption of
Land Tax, under the proceedings of the Commis-
Sioners, is about 1, zoo,ooo :
That the whole e-xpence to the Public has been
54001. :
I'hat the gain to the Public, by the operation,
has not been less than r. to,oool. stock, exclusive of
the other benefits explained and detailed in this
_ . .

By order of the Lords Commissioners,
10th June, zBoz. W. YOUNG, Sec.

On Monday was married THOMAS LANGSTO%,
Esq. of Watling-street; to Miss EMMA SAGE,
daughter of EDWARD SAGE, Esq. of Wivenhoe,
Essex.

On Friday evening last as a woman was stand-
ing with her child at a door in Bishopsgatt-
street, she wis accosted by a well-dressed female,
who praised the beauty of the child exceedingly,
requested the mother to bring her a pint of beer,
and offered to hold the infant till she came back.
The mother pleased with all this flattery, readily
complied, and on her return could find neither the
child nor the woman. A hue and cry was imme-
diateiy raised, and the. offender overtaken in Kings_
land Road, with the infant in her arms. On being
taken into custody, she said she was only taking th
babe, in order to shew the beautiful creature to a,
lady who was veil fond o: children.