The Sun.
London, England, 1803-07-20 00:00:00

BRISTOL, Jut y IS.

A number of French Prisoners have rtheaat
passed through here, strongly guarded, on their
way to the prison at Stapleton, which has been pre*i.,
pared for them, and guards ordered, iii the same 1`14:,
as was done during the late war,.
His Royal Highness the Dusa of CUMB.ERtAta
is expeted to arrivelere in the course of the plc',
sent.week, to take upon himself the command 0!
the Forces in this Distrit. The Garrison at pre'
sent consists of the Bedford and Rutland RegimerlCl ;
of Militia, wha appear Very forward in disciplino.
The Huntingdon Regitnent marched front hence an
the 16th inst: to Pembroke.

Captain DILICES is appointed to Command. the
.talvader' del Numb, of t r z guns, at Plymouth.. -
The Borbuck, of 44. guns, was ordered into cotr•
Mission on Monday, and Captain M'KttiLs'Y
pointed to comrtand her:
Twenty-two Prizes, captured since the cont.
ortncement of the present War, were yesterday cuP•
demned in the Admiralty Court. Several of theta
were of considerable value.
Dr, Ss wi Lt. is appointed Judge of the Vice Aa.
miralty Court which is to be established sit Malta'
Mr. joHN SCOTT, the Manchester and Glatigoll
Carrier, has made an offer to Government, in Csl •
of invasion, of alaa horses and carts, to go to 011
part of Scotland.; and also of 6 waggons and 4P
horses in Lancashire, to any part of England HO
MAiasTr may think most useful : the drivers' tx
penccs to be paid by himself. •
When will BoltatfitsaTit (hold as he wishltfil°
appear) dare to walk with his wife undei Mot":
on a promenade as public as the Terrace at Viritni:
sot, without a guard, or even attendant, an exiimPte
of morality and modesty to his Nation, and Of
fended only by the hearts and prayers of the 50"
rounding multitude ?
The Dutchess of CORDON is gone again to NW' •
burn, where a large Party assembled to celebrate
the birth-day of her daughter, the Dutchess ,
BcDrOLD, who has just completed her twenty-first
year.
Report Ws that Mrs. Bti.I.INOTON is to at3g,
trent the forces of Covent.garden Theatre, nest.
season. It is to be hoped that the Drury-lane,
Commanders are aEfive in levying troops against
such a formidable rival.
CHAR Las KEMB LE is playing with great SUCCeO
in STEPHEN KEMBLE'S circuit of Theatres. SI!
f rHert KYl4Ol.b h.is, by ins i ration, been pefortnic,
log Fahraj at Berwick-upon-Tweed. lie .
the Comedy of
.70.6 N Bull with him, • to be .repot
i
' seined for his benefit at that place, in requital
his perfamance,„ ta
Covent.Gar('.en Theatre is undergoing a cotorle-a
revision. Many old scenes which have not appear,e .
,
for near thirty years, have been brought to lige,/,
some of which may very properly be restored 11
the Public, but most of them will not bear the e/6
of the Public after the great improvement whio
the Arts have made in the interval.
The two Russian vessels destined to circum---
„Avid•
gate the Globe were preparing for the purrOe';')
the date of the last letters from Peterbburght vet]
all expedition.
GARNERIN lately sent up a Balloon at .theoChsaa.
teau of Pawloisk, near Petershurgh, With a Ot—ri;
chute attached to it containing a Car. At a cerfaia-a
height a lighted match set tire to the Balloons °"0,
the Cat descended to the earth in the Parachute ti
hurt. nof
The Paris Papers relate a story of a Man -who
living at Paris, a native of 'loledo, aged 13' who
ie A.) physically insensible, that his hands and ri,
were plunged into boiling oil by way of "I' sea
ment, and at another time red-hot irons were 1,',1,010
over them without his feeling the least i;in 'llt
either operation, or the least in • be"g
upon hi.

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.NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 18.—The Neptune, of 9
• guns, Capt. DRuftY, is come into Harbour to be
,ppered. •

. - -
Arrived the Prussian Ship Edus, Capt. CERw
from Memel, with timber. ,
Arrived the Patriot, Capt. STRAWNECK, from
Antigua for London, put in to wait Convoy.
Poatmautount, JULY 19.—Arrived the 17;floire
(French Ship) from New
,Orleans for Bourdeaux,
taken by the Apollo Frigate.
DEAL, JULY i9.—Sailed the Hon. East India
Company's Ship Neptune for the River, and the
Ranger Sloop, and Snipe Gun-brig, on a Cruize.
•
Arrived the Discovery Bomb, from the Note,
and sailed with the Confiiii Gun-brig for the Coast
•;
of France.
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THE INCOME BILL.

WE were glad to perceive that Mr. ADDINGTON
Upon reflection adopted, hOwever ungraciously, the
suggestiorii of Mri'PlCT'in the most essential. point
(if the IncoMe DUtf Bill, "and thtt-small:Poirietors
of. La isd,(ripy of whom gain a livelihood by farming
it themselves), and Persons possessing small Incomes
. Funds,. iperhaps the only means of their sub.
sistence), are now to be entitled, according to the
:alterations proposed by Mr. PITT, to the sauce
Abatements in the Duty, as persons whose Incomes
arise from other sources. Justice evidently required
that the first description of persons should not be
snore heavily burthened than Tenants of Land 'with
the same Income. But Justice, Policy, and Good
Faith demanded that the Stock.kolder should, in
taxing the Interest of that Property which he has
lent to the Nation, be at least as much favoured,
in resped of that,Property, as any other Person.
There will be found its every Loan Bill a Clause,
which we have before noticed, and which enacts
that the Dividends payable to the National Credi.
tor, shall not be subject to any TaX or DeduCtion
whatever. Nov it has been held, aid we think
very fairly, that this Clause did not apply to a
General Tax which included equal?, in its operation
this together with every other species of Property:
Eut if the Income arising from the Sands is taxed,
anstany other species of Income favoured-4hise is,
either not taxed at all, or taxed .at- a lower rate,
then it evidently becomes a violation of the Clause
of which we have spoken, and a breach of that
Faith to the National Creditor Wfiich Parliament
has pledged.—Now as the present Bill was brought
into Parliament by Mr. Aims NCTON, persons hay.
ing 601. per Annum in the Funds, and nothing more,
would have paid a Tax of 31. per ann. to the State—
whereas persons deriving 601. per ann. from Trade
nvotild have paid nothing—and persons having In.
comes derived from Trade from 601. to isol. would
have paid in a mitigated rate of Duty, whereas
Stock-holiers would, upon the same Income, have
paid the whole Duty. What is this but favouring
the incomes arising out of Trade at the expellee of
the Stock-holder ; or, in other words, violating
that general principle, and that particular Clause in
every Loan Ad to which we have referred ?
Yet Mr. ADDINGTON chuses to persist that the
Measure was just—that it was equal—that it was
no breach of National Faith. Since he does not
persist in the measure itself, it would be hard to
deny him the satisfaction of persisting us pertitia.
ciously as he pleases in the propriety of the grounds
on which he brought it forward. At the•same time
we think he ought in fairness and in charity to his
so Friends who had so stoutly 'supported the mei.
sure when he first proposed it, to have afforded them
.some littloground to justify so sudden. a change of
opinion,--isn a question of so much importance.

An account of the Annual Receipts and Disburse-
ments at the Island of Ceylon, during the time it
has been in the possession of Great Britain, to the
latest period to which the same can be made up.

Receipt,. Di sbler.tement.
Nov. t 795 to April 1746 - Pa. 6,0.332 • .r.,. 7,07;616
May 170 - :797 , 7,q2,613 - 6,92,245
1797 - 1793 . 6,06,62 z .
.1,767.7
1798 - 77,11 - 7,18,;P? .: 3, ,63,043
li'A - l'=-0 - 9,83,938 - 71,26,896
It',o - :.:' Jr -7,30,00 n ,- 7,50,00ci
May ilior to Dec. i`e.ot - 5,45,687 - , 6,21,67 P

Nlem.---Separate books of account from Ceylon
have not been received for the three first and sixth
years : the Receipts and Disbursements for those
periods are therefore calculated from the accounts
of Bengal,.Madras, and Bombay ; but they are not
to be considered as accurate.
The Receipts include the Revenues of the blind,
and the Remittances from the Governments in In-
dia, or Disbursements made there on account of
Ceylon. The Disbursements contain the general
charges of the Island ; but it is apprehended that
only the extra allowances to the Troops are inserted,
and that the regular pay is included in the accounts
of Madras, &c. This cannot however be ascer-•
tamed, the particulars of the Disbursements not
being sent home.

Every County in the Kingdom has now adopted
he Plan of Defence proposed by Government.
Yesterday the Principals of the Bakers' Company
waited on the LORD MAYOR at the Mansion House
tesp'etrring the Assize of Bread, when his Lordship,
after intpeding the Mealweighers' Reports, ordered
that no. alteration 511001(1 be made, but continue at
Nine4ence three.farthings the Quartrrn Loaf
Wheaten, and Eight.pence halfpenny the Home.
hold.

According to the last letters from Corfu, the
ENtr Rox of MOROCCO has declared War against
Austria.

Yesterday, at Brentwood Fair, in Essex, there
Was hur a thin show of cattle, and those principally
of the South Wales kind, which went of at high
prices; the horse fair was well stocked, particularly
with the teal; kind, which sold frccly.