The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-08 00:00:00

rkOLOGUE TO jOI,IN PULL.

ZY T. DIBDIN.
So you're all here—Box, Pit, d, anCkillery, full
Of British Jurors, corne. to tly IditN Bo lA..
" Who ads JOHN BULL ?" 1 11.ar yOU say,
No Charadees zia.nt'd in al the Play.'
" 'file Title then's a trick *corn the charge,
Nun Bor.:. is &Nib CharaFler at lirge: •
'Tis he; or he ; —where'er you mark'a Wight
Revering Law, yet resolute tot Itir,itt
Plain, blunt, his heart With teleling, itistke full I
That is a Briton—that's (thank f4eaveol lortg.oeta„
And long; till now, we set it down for
Has always ta'en his scat .3 oc4 e the Cptiaill
And so he noes—no artir .14.bere your places,
I see his gett'rO mustnind all your faces, '
Whether he sits by. Syveotheart;Frierni, nr`Britle, •
lonw Butt's as warm as at his
Look up aloft, and you may sarely sw:.‘ar •
hi,;b6i pleas'tl, closet() his Lass-quit tbtre :
That triad, which raundher waist is.kintlly torown, •
Should any. lie on:dist, would knock him down:
For jowl is stilt i.t4 tells the I.yric. page)
A Lamb in love—a Lion-in his rage.
Where Fashion's,poli*h. shoes him more rolln'd, ESvarsi
purr, still to social gileq
Freely, though ainfit at by Satyric whim,
Laughs with the Bards wilt) raise the thigh at him.
Or look below, and.you may see him sit,
GracinGwltlt, critit-state, no Pit
To whom, thus midway plec'd, f say be kind,:
luit 14 BULL 4,fore, oh spare loon 81)1.4.0444: (roiNtiv of)
Should you eantlemn, sans mercy, thepoor elf,. , •
"Fwere suicide- for Joitt4 to kill irivt;el ,
Nor blame the fear which makes the. that'd thus suet*;
jolt SI But L.ne'er trembles hut at facingjon:

The following is a copy of the Epilogue, sung by
Mr. JOHNSTONE. • •
Since Epilogue-spcaking to mei, quite ileiVi
PrAy, allow me the ,help of 3 fiddly or two.
I'm as' stragge to thi"4 jub as the mail in the moon;
But I think, if slog, I shall speak to some cone.
Toi de,t9l2 1,4 c.

Now touching this Comedy, Critics may say—
'Tis a trumpery, Bartleitiv.Fair kind of !Flay
It smells, faith; ofSmittificlii, we all trust anew,
For it's all about Bull, and the Soene'S the Red Cow. •
Yet not without morel the Author indites;
For he points to the blessings of ENGL/511,4 nresßtorits.
Leta Duke wrong a Brazier—the Barri4wrs all
Know that brass can do wonders in Westoiiiwter..ll3l I.
But was ever a tale so improbable told,
As Peregrine swimming with huge lumps of Gold
Should a Xllllll who sinks Condit with Cash try to swim,
For a Pound to ,t Shilling, his Cash will sink hint.
Let us find. some excuse for this strange oversight.
Let's suppose that his,Cuineas were mott of'm light;
Nay, the l; illness for grappling the shore, he inignt thank,
--'Tis amazing of late how they stick in the Bank !
One circumstance, keeps probability's
A nelinifill Female co; intts fluV par—
That's N.iture-.but Critics, who don't praisi: hi haste,
Will certainly, not call the incident chaste.
Now in Art, if not Nature, Ton Sbuffirtows final(' ;
lie's one of those puppies who better were drowned;
0t the worst Bond-street litter—such wlielps-none:..dinire
Chuck 'em all in the Thames—they woit'set ;it on tire.
Now touch'd on the principal points at the Play,
Shall it lama few nights, or tornight run itway ?
Your Votes, Frietulsaiul Critics, we now rest nponi
The Ayes have it, I think, thoughi u mayn't be
Oh, Mr. Dennis Biitlgrutidet, lives whit Ilk 4cAr
They're in style, and agree jut like Thunder and Beer.
An I rishinati'sbluaderi are pretty well tiai:K't ;
But how charmingly, sure, -Mr. I s N IfiLl :161
Then success to Yarn Mill—let this toast be his pvitt;
the King ot 1,4 n Mill's
At
,7d.vi Yitesitle 'should a toe darei to frowii,
May Joh), nc'er want a poker to knock the foe down.

On Monday' sennight Robert Pegg, John Dennis,
Richard Hinckg, and William Boaum 0i
Stoke-Golding, tet' shirt, frame-work..k tcc ts
were committrd to Leicester County Gaol, fur the
space of two ccdenclar months, t' the Niag.httates
at Hinckley, being convitted of havil g etiteted
into a combination to obtain itn advance of wages,
and of having induced others to Attend mcetings
for that purposl.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, IANUARY 21, 1803*

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COMMERCE AND,
MANUFACTURES, TO WHOM WAS REFERRED
THAT PART OF THE FRESIDEZ•T'S MESSAGE
WHICH RELATES TO DISCRIMINATING AND,
COUNTERVAILING DUTIES, AND TO THE ACT
OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT ON THAT SUB-
JECT.

That a duty of six cents per ton is by law im.
posed on all American ships entering any of the
ports of the. United States, from a foreign port,
anti on any ship or vessel, not of the United States,
fifty cents per ton ; and that an additional duty
of ten per cent. on the duties payable on goods,
wares, or merchandize, imported in American
bottoms, has invariably been imposed on such
goods, Wares, and tnerchandize, when impor2ted in
foreign ships or vessels.
That those discriminating duties have tended
greatly to increase the navigation of the United
States, have given to the Ship-owners an advantage
over foreipersin the carriage to the United States
of salr, wine, brandy, sugar, coffee, blankets and
other coarse woollens, coarse linens, hemp, earth.
en-ware, and other bulky articles; and have ena-
bled them to he almost exclusively the carriers of
all the fine articles of importation necessary to the
consumption of the country. This policy,
.com-
' bined with the advantages resulting froth the late
war in Europe, had increased the. American ton.
nage to an amount (it is belieVed). not interior
to that of any nation in Europe, except Great
Britain.

The eireds of these discriminating duties did
not escape the observation of those foreign nations
with whom we have had the greatest commercial
intercourse,

the istli Article of th: treaty of amity, corn.
merce, and navigation, dat7d London, igth Nov.
1794.—" The British Government has. reserved
the right of countervailing those discriminating
duties--and the United !States bound theMselves

not to impose any new or additional duty on the
tonnage of British ships or vessels, or to increase •
the then subsisting difference between the duties
payable on the importation of any article in British
or American ships."
It' is believed by your Committee, that the Par-
liament of Great Britain, by a statute passed the
fourth of July, 5797, (in the exercise of that re-
timed "right) have exceeded the fair intent and
meaning of tile treaty of amity, &c. &c. and there-
'by have Secured to the Ship-owners of that nation
the exclusive carriage' to Great Britain (in time of
peace) of some of our must important objetts of
exportation.
They have seleaed fish-oil and tobacco (articles
of great bulk) as objcEts on which the highest
countervailing duties have been imposed. The
countervailing duty on fish oil being 365. 31 a zod.
sterling per ton of 252 gallons, and vpon tobacco
6d. per too lbs.
In consequence of which a British ship of 250
tons, carrying aso ton of oil to Great Britain from
the United States, will pay +531. ifs. sterling less
duty thereon thln the. came` nit' would pay imported
into Great Britain in an American ship; the whole
freight on such quantity of oil would have been
prior to the late war only 6251. sterling—the net
freight to an American ship, (after deduaingthe
countervailing ditty of 4521. 155.) wonld of course
be only ;pl. ss. sterling.
By the same operation, a British ship of 250 tons,
carrying 4.00 Midi. of tobacco, of t zoolbs each, to
Great Britain from the United States, would pay
3601. sterling less duty than would. be.payable on
the same quantity 'of tobacco imported in an Ame.
rican ship—the whole freight at 355. sterling per
hhd. would only amount to 7001. sterling, which
(after deducting the countervailing duty of 3601.)
would leave to the American a net freight of only
341. is. sterling.
Rice, when imported into Great Britain in an
American ship, is charged with a duty of eight_
pence 8- so sterling per hundred weight more than
when imported in a British ship ; this extra duty
amounts on a tierce of rice to about 35. 9d. stet.
ling ; the freight of a tierce of rice may be estimated
at av. sterling. No person will give uss. od.
freight in an American ship, when he can have the
same carried for a as. in a British ship,
Pot and pearl-ashes pay &countervailing duty of
214,10. the hundred, weight. A cask of ashes con.
tains about three hundred weight t the extra duty on
that by an American ship will be 9d. per barrel ;
the freight of such barrel is presumed to be 55,, Or
ss. 6d. sterling in times of peace ; a difference of
nine-pence sterling per barrel, will effectually give
the carriage to British ships, of all the ashes ex.
roved from the United States to Great Britain.

The Committee take leave to refer the House to
a Table of Duties imposed by Great 'Britain on
goods imported in American and British ships,
which was printed the last Session of Congress, and
is herewith exhibited (N. 3). On tecurring thereto,
an important countcrvaii in'the articles of wood of
all kinds, a small ore in tar, turpentine, pitch, and
other article, will be discovered.

The Committee rake leave to state, that the Par.
liament of Great Britain, by a statute bearing date
the 7th of May, 1802, has imposed -the following
new additional duties on- articles the produce and
manufanure of the United States, viz.

Ashes, pot and.pe.at Is. 6(1.. the cwt.
Ginseng - . 6s. the too tats.
Indigo (American') izi. Om too his.
liar iron is, bit. the ton.
Fig Iron 4.g. 6d. - the hin.
Pitch 3s. Sit. the last of twelve
Tar 13. rid. barrels.
4(1. t tivwt .
Bd. the Cwt.
the 164 bls. •
U. the ton. '.
Ss. 9i. th,t.,cwt.
75., scd, the do bk.

Rusin
Rice
Tobacco
l'urpen tine
Bees-NV:IX
COttoll (American)

" 33.

The'counterrailing duty of ten per cent. being
also levied on all those new duties (except that on
tobacco), adds farther to the injury already sustain-L-
-ed by American hhips carrying such articles, and
secures to British ships the exclusive c.irriage of the

following articles,: in addition to the objeds ale"
ready mentioned, viz. indigo, iron, ginseng, beA-.
wax, and the important and balky article of cotton.
Prior to the passing of the British statute of May
last, American cotton and indigo were free of duty.
on importation into Great Britain, the countervail.
ing duty on indigo will (in consequence of the duty
above stated) be is. 24 rod. pet 'oaths. That
on cotton nine-hence 4.10 the toolbs. The
freight of toolbs. of cotton may be estimated, in
times of peace, at about Bs. 4d. sterling ; the dif-
ferenc,z.of nine-pence on 85..4.d. will give a decided
preference to British over American ships.
Thus, then, it appears, that Great Britain, by •
her countervailing ad, has secured efredually the
carrying (for'ber own wants and her foreign com•
merce) of our fish-oil, tobacco, pot and pearl-ashes,
rice, indigo, and cotton, and having the carriage of
those bulky articles, the minor objets (except
naval stores) not being sufficiently important to
form entire cargoes, will also be carried in Bri.
tish ships.
The Committee take leave farther to, state, that
by the same statute of Great Britain, of the 7th
of May last, a duty of one-half per cent. is. im-
posed on all goods, wares, and nierchandize (of the
growth or manufadure of Great Britain) on their
exportation to, any port in Europe, or within cite
Streights of Gibraltar, and ofOoe per cent. on si.
milar goons, ,when exported,to any place, not being
in Europe, or within the Streights of Gibraltar ;
thus subjecting the United States to a duty on, ex,
ports double that which is paid by the nations of
Europe.. This discrimination your Committee be,
lieve to be in contradidion to, the spirit of the Trea.
ties. existing between the United States and Great
Britain. ' •

By the statute of Great Britain, pissed the 4th of
July 1797, a duty of tonnage was imposed on Ante.
riean ships entering her ports, of 25. sterling per
ton, which is admitted as a fair countervail of the
discriminating duty of 4+ cents per ton on their
• ships entering the ports of the United States. -•
Front the preceding view of the snbjed, it ap.
pears to. your Committee, that. American Vessels
will be preferred to British, for the carrying of all
the -fine manufatures of Great Britain ; but that
the decided, advantages that British Ships 110qt1 hWile
over Americans, in the carriage of all the bulky
. and important articles of the United Stares, neces,
sary for the consumption or Foreign Commerce of
Great Britain, will-enable their Owners, to enter
into an advantageous competition with the. Ante.
ricans in the carrying from Great Britain to the
United States, of British Salr, and of all the coarse
and bulky articles of the produce and manufa&ure
of Great Britain, for instance: - •
MALT is charged with only two cents. per bushel more
when imported In a Foreign Shi, than when imported in
an. American ; this small exi duty has never prevented
its importation in Btitish Shipt. •
EARTHENWARE —a crate thereof will cost about five
pounds sterling. The usual peace freight of such a crate
presumedto be about ao or ass.• sterling ; the extra duty
thereon, being only is. 6d, sterling, would be paid by the
Owner of a British Ship rather than not obtain the freight.
B LANKETS—= a bale of ten pieces will cost about 401. ster-
ling, The usual peace freight about 335. sterling; the.
extra duty payable, if iinPorted in a British Ship, will be
res. sterling.
WOOL. HATS, Osnaburgs' sail, canvas, kerseys, negro
eottpus, flannel, baize, half-thicks, and in truth.all wool-
len cloths under ;s. sterling per yard ; beer, porter, and a
varietV'ot other bulky artieles pay an extra duty, sU small
• WhoicOMpor9l. with trio tivight. of such. liocids,' that the
. Owners of British Ships, when assured ot. a lull return
freight from the United States to Great Britain, will find
it their interest to agree to pay the extra duty payable on •
such goods wiien imported into the United Statesin
reign Ships or Vessels.
' France also has taken measures to rneer.the,ope.
• ration of.our discriminating duties. In the second
year of the French Republic, a Decree (relative to
the 64 of Navig /Ilion of that Nation) .was'passed,
by which a duty of tonnage of so sols per ton was
imposed on Foreign Vessels entering the Ports of
France, and of six sols per ton on French Vessels.
In the third year of the French Republic, a Law
was passed, imposing a duty of r S livres r S sols per
quintal on tobacco imported in French Vessels, and •
of is livres,on tobacco imported into the Ports of
France in Foreign Vessels ; which duty has since
been increased to 30. !lyres per quintal, when
ported in Foreign Ships, and to zo livres when in
French Ships ; making a difference of izo livres, or
zz dollars and go cents per !did. of r zoolbs, against
the importation of tobacco into France in American
Vessels. This discriminating duty amounts, in
faCI, tcithe prohibiting of the importation of tobacco
in American Vessels into France.

Your Committee further state, that, by a late
Law, France has imposed a discriminating duty of
So per cent. on the dutieS payable on sugar, cotree,
cocoa, and other West-India goods, when imported
in French Ships, or similar goods when imported,in
Foreign Ships into her Ports.
The Committee take leave to exhibit •herewith
[No. r.l statement of exports, imports, and ton-
nage, as they relate to France, Great Britain, anti
the United States. And a statement [No, LI shelv-
ing the exports from the United States to the Fiuyo..
peath Ports of Great Britain and Fiance, ,of the
lowing articles, to wit
• Pot and pearl ashes, ginseng, iron, pitch, rosin,
rice, tobacco, tar, fish,oil, turpentine, bees-wax,
and cotton, and the total value of exports to those
Nations for theyear iSoz.

• Sweden and Denmark have Laws. imposing dis.
criminating duties highly favourable to their carry.
ing trade. Spain also, by its Navigation Laws,
gives important ad vantages.to.its own shipping over
those of Foreign Nations trading to her. Ports. Hot.
land also has )ier discriminating, duties, which in
'their consequences are injurious to the commercial
interests of the tliiited States.

Two modes have presented themselves to your
Committee, to obviate the disadvantages resulting
to the partying trade of the United States, from
.the
.countervailing and discriminating duties already re,
cited, The one to increase our discriminating du.
ties, ,so as to meet the injuries now ,experienced
from the operation of those and the Countervailing
duties of other nations. The other to relinquish our
discriminating duties, so far as they relate to.goods,
wares, and merchandize, the growth, produce, or
man►uFa4`tore of the nation to which the ship by
whom the same are imported may belong, in favour

S 111 Tl-I f 1 ELI) NIARK ET, March 7.
To sink the Otial—per stone of Sib.
Beef, 4s. 6d. to 65. od. I Veal, 6s, od. to Ss. 041.
Mutton, 50. 4(.1„ to 6s. 4:1. Pork, 4s, gd., to 6s. oti.
Lamb, oS. to os,
HZ AD OF ,CATTI,4 THIS D,,Y;
13eillIt3AtI011t 2200—Sheep and Lambs 7500.

NEW/CATE and LIiADENIIALL MARKET.
Beef, 3s. Ski. to lA. Veal, ço, od. to 7s. okk.
Nlutton, 4s. Sd. to ss. 4d. Pork, 40, Ski. to 64. od.
Lamb; os, r)(1. to os. od.

PRICE OF LE.ATHE4 (:rib.) AT LEAOHNHAT.L.
nott,S, d t0..461b.;•,c-acit -20 d, , TO 21d.
[)itto, 6o TO 654). . - 22,0. TO 23d.
Merchant,' Backs, - - y 991. to god.
Dieseing . . to ltd.
Fine Coach Hides, - . 2 id. to zzd.
Crop !fides for cutting, - 200. TO 22d.
Hitt Ordinary - - OWL to 241.
Calf Skins, 3o to 4olb-, per Dozen to 3ao;
Ditto, ' • .5o to 70113.. - 2yd. to 32d.
Ditto, • 7,a to t3ltt. - 26(1. to .28d.
Small Seals(Greenland) 40d., to 43d. per lb."
Large ditto, rues. to 14os. per Dozem •
Tanned Horse Hides, .s. to • 325. per Hide.
GOAT Skins - - —s.. to —s. per Dolen.

piticE 01 1101'3.
*Ans. ' POCKITS.
i
Kent, 51. sos. to 71. os. Kent, 61. los. to 91. os.
Sussex, L. tos. to 61. 6s. Sussex,.6l. os. to El. os.
Essex, oil. os. to 01. os. Faruliam, 01. tool. os.
New flops - 91. -- to. ill. --

SET.DS.

Rc4 Clover, (new)
Ditto (Old)
%V hite ditto -
Trefoil -
Turnip
k it). rass
Rye Gnasi
Cartaway. -
Coriander. -
Canary . •.
Brown Mustard Sc .1
White iiitto
Broad 14.1 us
Lonit.Puds
Itape-sced- . -

Eos to toils per cwt.
los to Sos do.
Ism to lips do.

,
35s to ttos percwt.
20$ to 14,s pit* bushel.
4.5 s to 635 per cwt.
3ss tp r,ipertptarter.
4:,,s to 44s per cwt.
2Ss to 30$ do.

Sus to 4ss do.
to 244 per bushel
14s to.l2>s ditto:

34s to-46s do

to igs do.

341. tor3Bl.•per last.

St. JAMES's HAY 14.1:\11.K1F,T,, March
Hay, .11. 3>. oft. to oi. cd.—A.ver. 5). its. 61.
Straw, 11. ss, ad. to 21. trys. OlL—Ayer. zl. its. od.

~VIIIT ciiiA 1. mit. gx. T, -March s'.
flay, 41. los. to 71.76. otl. —Aver. 51. •;Ss. 6d..
C tovcr,. 61. MS. od, to 71; .123. oti.--Aver. 71. rs. od.
sqow, 11, ;Ss. 0(1, 0 21. 63. ocl:-:—,Avet. 2.1. as. W..

• PIZACE OF 'FALLOW. -
St. James's Market 4s, 2yt. 1 Town Tallow 7,ts. 6d.,
Clare itlark et 4s, 4d. RllSSildi). ‘Cti!ld) —s. 74Si
whitechapel Market 4s. 3tl, Russia do. (Sdap) 675. —s.
per atom ot 81b. tin* Stuff' 575. ' sEtt. •
/2s. $(1,„ Ditto, rough 4os. •
Average price 4g, i Graves i6s. etd.
C; ond .Dregs IoS.
26s.;—C,titd, gos. ,
ts. od.

Yello►v Soap, 7/Iss—Mot
Price of Candles per doz4n,

COAL EXCHANGE:

Best. Coals, :in the Pool, per Chaldron . 41$. ed.
Delivered to Housekeepers at 50s. od.
Sunderland per Chaldron - 375. 6d.
Delivered to Hpuseizeopers at
Sail arrived in the kivpr.
- G
Otte Hundred and d.-
"resent}

- ' MARRIED. . . .
*lO flattish ort the !pivot. tetnniiii,AVillims limn, Est
of the Exchequer Office in tri:it City, to Miss Eliza Wil-
liams, datight:fr of Thoitia4 Williams, Esq. -Stcretary to the
Bank ut Ireland.
At Westthorn Hotise, on the lath ult. Alexandes 1.-,rig,
younger of Overtown, Esq. Adcotate, to Miss kubecca
Gray Dennistoun, daughtct of lames Dennistottn, ti West-
thorn, Esq. . . . .
At Berwick-upon.:Tweed. (Out triwt7:er, Es 4. stole-
keeper of the--garrison, to Mies Riddell, eldest daughter-of
Thomas Riddell, Esq. of Berwick. . . .. ..._ •