The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-18 00:00:00

DEAL, FEB. 17.

AntVitb from a Cruize, the Bloodhound Gun.

The Hon. East India Company's Ship Sovereign
sailed this morning to the River the Walpole and
iithinstotie remain•

SHEERNESS, ftv. 16.

Aa
,Rlvit) the Cerherut frigate, with the loss of
Bet mizen.mast and foretop.mast.
The Thai:, being found unfit to carry troops to
Ireland, is ordered to be paid off.
Yesterday the ihtbuseade frigate sailed to the
Westward.
The thaw, since Sunday, has been general, but
to-day the wind has chopped round to the North-
Ward, and' the weather assumes a more winterly ap.
peara nee.
On Monday a general survey of all the Naval
Stores in this dock-yard took place, two Gentlemen
Iltiving been sent from the Navy Office for that pus.
pose, in order to give the Naval Store.keeper a new
teld accurate statement of .the Stores under his care.

GiBPAPAR, Jaw. 24.

•
ON the 2ts t the Intern Sloop of War, Captain
eaR ant, arrived here from Portsmouth in i / days;
she sailed in company with the Abundance Naval
store Ship, which she parted company with in a
violent gala of
,wind on the /Bth.
The Abundance arrived on the 23d, in the morn.
trig I Mr. THOMPSOI4, Surgeon of the 25th Regi.
:tient, came passenger in her. The 13;ttern sailed in
the evening to join the Fleet. Arrived the liebe,
IVlerchant Brig, in / 4 days from England.
The cynthia, for England, is still lying here,
Iwind bound.
Their Spanish Majesties arrived at Aranjuez on
the 9th ult.

The Ranger Sloop of War, Captain COOTE, and
the Hound and Diliviree Armed Ships, have just
been paid off at Deptford, and. re-commissioned by
their original Captains.
Letters have been received at the Admiralty,
from Capt. Hoof), stating his arrival in the Blen.
keine at Barbadoes, from whence he was aboutlo,
proceed, with 'the Other CroiWaiissioners, to survey
the island of trinidad, . .
Letters received from Barbadoes, 'dated the 29th.
of December last, state the agreeable news of the
safe arrival there of His Majesty's Ship Centaur, of
74 guns, Capt. LITT4EIIALES,, which sailed from
lymouth three months since, with.sealed orders, all
well, and the officers and crew healthy. The island
of Barbadoes is also healthy. She was, after taking
tn Water and wood, to run down to Jamaica, to
ice. Admiral Ducxwoturti, for orders, and to re.
litve a ship of the line on that station.
Wednesday arrived in the Downs, the Caledonia,
Capt. PACE, last from St. Helena, arid the Live 6.,
from' the South Sea.

Yesterday a Meeting of the Royal 1e1:m.144n So-
ciety, for the Extirpation of the Small-pox, took
place at theion Tavern. We are happy to fiiA
This excellent Institution honoured with the Patron.
age of all the branches, Male and Female, of the
hoYal Family. We trust that such great authori-
" will tend to overcome the vulgar prejudices still
entertained against the Cow. Pock, and that the
Progress of Dr. JaNxaL's discovery will effect the
,Utter extirpation of the dreadful Malady which has
WPC, l
long tiepopulated Europe.
The fourth Meeting of the Navy Club was held
2t the Thatch'd House Tavern, St. james'3-street,
'm Wednesday last, at which Sir HYDE PARIER
iareSlLlCti• Among the Company present were,
an. Admiral Cornwallis, Capt. Freemantle,
Admiral Lord liotham, Capt. George,
Adroiral Lutwidgo, Capt. Pierrepoint,
Admiral Nugent, Capt. Essington,
Admiral Sir C. M. Pole, Capt. Martin,
AdMital Sir A. S. Harnorni,
24(1 several other Officers of the Royal Navy.
,it is to be hoped that the success of the Bishop
4-qNDON'S Theological Lea.ures, will induce that
venerable Prelate to repeat leis pious labours at ST.
1"4/81s, during the approaching Lent. The higher
order of females attended those Lellures with so
!nueh'zeal, that the meritorious author may gratify
tiiinselt with a hope, that lit may set Faibittl On
the Lida-of Virtue.

trig Eitttdrr ,4 VT'4 CR Aift.

Vdt.lNTitO ON A TRUZ trOKY.
*,liv trieitare, why strew ye those floNv'rets arotincl,
To yon new•soddetl grave, is your slow steps advance?
In yon new4oddeti grave (ever dear be the ground I)
Lies the stranger we lov'd, the poor Exile from France.
And is the poor Exile at rest from his wee,
No longer the sport of Misfortune and Chance!
Mourn on, v►llage mourners, my tears too shall flow
For the stranger ye 'avid, the poor Exile of France.
Oh! kind was his nature, tho' bitter his fate,
And gay was his converse, tho' broken his heart ;
No comfort, no hope, his own heart could elate,
Tho' comfort and hope he to all could impart.

Ever joyless himself, in the joys of the plain
Still foremost was he, mirth and pleasure to raise,
And sad was his soul, yet how blithe was his strain,
When he sung the glad song of n►ore fortunate days
One pleasure he knew ; in his straw cover'd shed
For the snow-beaten Beggar his faggot to trim,
One tear of delight he could drop on the bread
Which he shar'd with the poor, tho' still poorer than him.

And when round his death-bed profusely we cast
Ev'ry gift, ev'ry solace our hamlet could bring,
He blest us w►th sighs, which we thoUght were his last;
But he still had it pray'r for his Country and King.

Poor Exile, adieu! undisturb'd be thy sleep !
From the feast, from the wake, from the village green dance,
How ~ft shall we wander, by moonlight to Weep,
O'er the stranger we lov'd, the poor Exile of France.
To the church-going bride shall thy mem'ry impart
One pang as her eyes on thy cold relics glance,
One flow'r from hes garland, one tear from her heart,
Shall drop on the grave of the Exile ofFrance.
W. s,

INct.toorr, on Wednesday, signed an article
with Mr. HARR IS for five years. He is to have
161. a week. Mr. HARRIS, with his accustomed
liberality, suffers him to perform at Bath the ensuing
week.

Mrs. HARRISON acquitted herself so ably in the
place of Mrs. BILLINGTON, on Wednesday last, at
the Concert of Ancient Music, and sang " Pious
Orgies" with such beautiful and affe&ing simplicity,
that it is much to be regretted so accomplished
a singer should have withdrawn her talents from the
Public.

'Jr. Foo•r, who made so respeftable a figure in
Hamlet, at Drury.lane Theatre, has performed that
charader with so much'success at Salisbury, chat he
was requested to play it twice after the expiration
of his engagement at that place. He is to perform
at Exeter and Plymouth, and then returns to Bath.
Cowpsst, the late excellent Poet, speaking of
Bilsw ELL'S Life of JOHNSON, observed, that though
it is so much abused, it presents the best portrait
that has ever been given of the great English Mu-
ralist, adding, that mankind 'would be gratified
indeed if some contemporary of SHAKSPEARE and
Mttrorr had given the world such a history of
those unrivalled Poets.

An idea seems to be entertained by some persons,
certainly not the majority of the well-informed,
that it is absolutely necessary that a First Lord of
the Admiralty should be a Professional Alan. We
have a different opinion upon the aubjeft. We will
maintain that the affairs of.- the Admiralty were
never better, if so rwell,atiministered, within our
own recollealon, as under two First Lords who were
General Officers of the Army.
The statement which The lifon;teur has given of
our Finances, was probably furnished by the rene.
gado miscreants who condua the English Paper, en.
titled The Argsts, in Paris. But The Moniteur might
just as well have adhered to its Old Correqoadent
at Sisocard, who would hardly have deviated more
widely from the truth. Perhaps it would he better
indeed, if The ltfoniteur, instead of attempting 'to
degrade the Finances of this Country, were to try
to improve those of France.

A Morning Paper says, that " within the last
ten years, France has discovered the guillotine and
the telegraph, and England the runeetne and liji-
boat.'.• The telegraph was first discovered by a
Scotchman : the French, therefore, have only the
important discovery of the guillotine to boast, a
discovery of which they undoubtedly have the ex.
elusive merit.

In Dr. RANK), I N'S , Epiia/b on a Sguirr4, that
escaped from his cage, and was killed, there is the
following passage

" Learn hence{ ye who blintily.-Wish.more liberty;
4 Whether sttbleas, ions, Squirrels, or tlauichters,
4! That arparort restraint rhay he real protedien."

Who could have thought that a writer with these
sentiments would have been one of the most bitter
enemies against 'the mild restraint, and the solid
proteClion of the British Monarchy !
• A French Writer has made a wonderful discovery,
that France, by virtue of her new law of natural
boundaries, extends her parental protection to the
whole tract of Louisiana, consisting of land known
and unknown. With equal modesty,. little Label,
in The Prize,. proposes to cure " all ills that he
inotor, or lie don't invw."

Lady Hoar, during her residence for these last
two years at Hottland'a.palace, her seat near Kill.
cock, Ireland, has proved in that distraded neigh.
boUthood the patroness of hospitality and bene.
voleoce. In addition to her weekly distribu.
tions to The neighbouringpoor, she has ereaed an
asylum for the maintenance, clothing, and cduca.
tion of several female orphans, and also a week.
.ly allowance to all the widows on her estate.
Sir joitx 1-lorr, in addition to her bounty, on his
own account, has built for the use of his cotters and
labourers, with a lot of ground annexed to each,
thirty-six separate cottages or dwellings, built with
stone, brick and lime, each dwelling with a slated
covering in the room of thatch, which is the usual
custom of the Country, forming a complete village.
This example, were it to be followed by the No.
bility of Ireland, would soon bring that distracted
country into a state of comfort and tranquillity.
Mr. Cactattoatt, one of the political fugitives
from Scotland about eight years ago, has been or-
dered to find sureties to the amount of 12,000 dol-
lars, in consequence of some libellous publications
he has inserted in a Newspaper, of which he is
Editor in Philadelphia'.
Professor ALDINI, who has lately made the cu.
rious Galvanic experiments in London, is appointed,
along with M. GIOVANI, to the Chair of Experi-
mental Physics, in the re-established University of
soulogne ; and a Lady, Mademoiselle Ct.o.rtLoA
Tasasitost, is appointed to t:lat of the Grecian
Language anti Literature, in the same University,

LAW. iitliOht.

COURT OF KiNG's BEKCI-1, Fl!. f 7.
TTINGS:LTORL LORD tLLtNIIOkOUGH IN WLSiMIN.

STEK-BALL.

MILLMAN V. TUCKER.

Tuts. was an aCtion to recover th 6 kum of 601.
paid by the Plaintiff to the Defendant, for a Barge
which he purchased of him ; upon the ground that
the Barge was not agreeable to the wetrranty•which
the Defendant gave to the Plaintiff at the time of
the purchase, namely, " That the Barge was per-
feCtly sound, and was fit for use for two years with.
out repair, accidents excepted," whereas it was not
sound, but leaky at the titne of the sale.
In the coarse of the trial a person of the
name of William Perry, was examined as a wit-
ness for the Plaintiff, and Mr. ERSKINE, on cross_
examining him, asked him whether he had not been
imprisoned on a conviCtion-for forging Coal Meters'
Tickets.? Upon which Lord ELLENHOROUGH sold
the witness that he was not bound to answer the
question ; and he refused to answer. The Court
then proceeded, and the evidence and address of
Counsel being over,
Lord ELL ENBOROUCH summed up the evidence,
and gave direttion to the Jury, and in taking no-
tice of the evidence of William Perry, his Lordship
said, he was bound to tell the Jury, the Witness
was not obliged to answer the question put to bins ;
whether he was imprisoned on a convietion for
forging.Coal-Meters'Rickets, that he was entitled
to the proteelion of the Court, and that 'a Judge
who dii not afford him protation, in refusing to
answer such a questiOn, would be guilty of a base
dereliction of his duty, far that a Witness in a
civil action was not bound to give an account of his
crimes, but of his knowledge of fads relating to
the issue ; and that the refusal of the Witness to
answer that question,. threw no manner of discredit
upon him, and that if his Lordship had himself
been a Witness, he would have refused to answer
such a question, although innocent, because it had
no reference to the issue on which he was examined
as, a Witness.

Mr. ER`KINF.—" Before the Jury► pronounce
their verdia upon this question, which is of very
great importance, as it seems to me, I rise to tender
a Bill of Exceptions to part of your Lordship's di.
redions to the Jury. I have taken down the words."

Lord ELLENBOROUGII.—" We will takc the
verciia first."

- -
Mr. ERSK tNE.—"' If your Lordship pleases :
but it has been usual to tender the exceptions before
the verdid."

The Jury found a Verdia for the Plaintiff—
Damages 601.
Mr. EttsxiblE.-" The ground on which I tender
a Bill of Exceptions to your Lordship's direttion to
the Jury, is this : when a question was asked by
me, as Counsel for the Defendant, to the first Wit-
ness, William Perry, whether he had not been im.
prisoned upon a Cony iaion fur forging Coal Meters'
Tickets, your Lordship gave him the protection,
which you said you were bound to do, by telling him
that he was not bound to give an answer to such a
question, and which you stated in terms which I find
no fault with : your Lordship then proceeded, that
you felt it your duty to give to the Witness your
proreaion, and then you said and that is_ the sub-
jea of my Bill of Exceptions), you were bound to
tell the Jury that such refusal of the Witness (to
whom you afforded the pima-lion), threw no man-
ner of discredit upon him, and in order to (loathe
that sentiment with the highest possible sanaion,
and which carries great weight with it—l mean no-
thing personally disrespectful to your Lordship, for
whom .1 have the highest esteem—
Lord ELLENBOROUGH." You: peed not make
any observations, for I am really glad to
,have my
conduct questioned in a regular come. I hope I
am not so foolish as to receive any offence as it."
Mr. EasmNs.—" It would be extremely pain.
ful to me to offend your Lordship. You then added,
my Lord, I should have refused, to answer such a
.question myself,' by which I took you to mean that
if this question had been put to yourself.—
Lord ELLENBOROUGH.—"I should have re..
fused to answer."

Mr. EASKINfe•-'-" There has been some differ-
ence of opinion on this subject."
tord ELLIINBOROUGH.•.••••" This, I think, is
not, the season to discuss anything -upon the subjeet,
for that is to be argued upon the Bill of Exceptions.
I am taking down the words to which you say you
objet, in my direaion. I told them that the Wit-
ness was not bound by law to answer the question,
and that is a part which I understand you find no
fault with."
Mr. ERSKINE.—" I do not exclude that from
,objeetion, my Lord, the Bill of Exception goes to
the whole of the sentence,"
Lord ELLENBOItOUOII.-41 I do this very ad vis.
edly, and I court this discussion."

Mr. ERSKINE.---" It is proper for Counsel, in
tendering a Bill of Exceptions, to explain the rea.
sots for it."

Lord ELLENDOROVGII.—" I think not : 1 will
take down the words to which you except, as if
tendered to me on paper; regularly they ought to
be offered to me on paper, and I ought to seal it ;
but I,will take the words from you."

Mr. ERSKINE.*---" The question to the Witness
William Perry, was, .4
whether he had nor been
imptisoned cm a conviction for forging Coal Meters'
Tickets;' and your Lordship ruled, that he was
not hound to answer the question; the Witness re_
fused to answer, and your Lordship said to the Jury
upon that point, 4 I am battrid to tell you, Gentle-
men, that that refusal throws no manner of dikre.
dit upon him—and I should have refused to answer
myself."
Lord I.7.z.Letittoßouott took down the words
objeded to, and then said—" I hope this will be
seriously proceeded in, otherwise it should not have
been thrown out, for the conduti of a Judge should
not be lightly questioned, and I do hope, that you
do mean seriously to proceed in this."
Mr. ERSKINE...--" I certainly do, my Lord,
mean seriously. to question it."

HALLIDAY (V. APPLETON.

The Plaintiff is a Wine Merchant, and the De.
Pendant a Tradotratit mired from buitats3, and the

rienitiff ratifed ipartmetits ant]
add also a stable end dtilet ot&.hoesea bf ilk De:,
fehdanr; itt Lordship.laite, Tottenham, si•heie both
the parties reside in great credit, keep their chaises;
&c. This Milan was brought against the De.
fendant for maliciously, and without probable causal,
charging the Plaintiff with having stolen a act of
plated harness for a horse in a chaise, of the value
of sal. upon which the Plaintiff was appraliancled on
a Saturday night, and brought before a Magistrate
at ten o'clock at night, and cn the oath of the De.
fendant committed for farther examination. The
substance of the Defendant's oath was, that the
Plaintiff had once wanted to buy- the harness of Una
but not giving what he asked, the Defendant never
sold. to him this harness. That the Defendant
took back the harness and locked it up in his own -
stable, which was joining to that of the Plait-11Hr,
and then the Defendant went td Margate, where he
remained for several months. That when he cane
home he found his harness was gone, and that theca
was a hole in the partition which separated his
stable from that of the Plaintiff, large enough for a 4
man to pass through ; anti on searching,.the harness
was found in the Plaintiff's stable, and upon thin
the Plaintiff was apprehended, and kept in custody
from Saturday night Until. about Monday noon,
when, upon a -full hearing, the Magistrate was
clearly of opinion that the Plaintiff was emitted to
his discharge, and he was discharged accordingly.
And this Atlion was brought to recover a corn.
pensation in damages for' this insult.
It appeared clearly id evidence, that the Defend:,
ant had aetually sold this harness to4he Plaintiff for
three pounds ; that the Plaintiff did not indeed pay
to the Defendant money for it, but wrote it off the
Defendant's account, he baying the Plaintiff money
fur wine. That the Plaintiff had attually used the
harness for six weeks together, and that the Dea
fendant knew it, and saw the Plaintiff use it fur
his horse in a chaise. ,That the Defendant had in.
deed taken it back again to his own stable, when
he went to Margate, during some of which times
the Plaintiff had not the use of it; but afterwards
the Plaintiff's wife took it out through the Window
of the stable, for the purpose of having a ride With;
her husband, and from that time downward, the ,
Plaintiff used this harness without the molestation
of the Defendant until his apprehension. That as
to the htale in the partition, that was an accident,
from the hay in the loft being pressed against it ;
that the Defendant claimed,the harness, and insisted
that it was his'before a witness, when the'Plaintiff
said it was his, and he had allowed the Defendiat
31. for it in account, which the Defendant did nut
deny. That the Defendant had had some other dis.
putes with the Plaintiff, and had said, that he would
hang or transport him, and that he wanted tlie
Plaintiff to quit the place wherein he dwelt. That
the Defendant was an old man, addialed a good
deal to drinking. There was not the slightest rt.,-
tence for this charge of theft against the P/Vatiff,
except in the: heated and silly imagination of this
superannuated Defendant, and therefore the oily
question was the quantum of ciarnages,•whieh the
Jury, after a very appropriate direction from the
Chief Justice, estimated at tool.

Verdk for the Fuintiff.—Damages tool.

CORN EXCIIANGE, FE a,

.. .
THE Kirke( still continues without further 4up.
plies, of Grain, excepting it igur•miloples of Oats
and Barley ;. and being short of buyers, piles r)t ail
articles arc extremely heavy, at prices ut•striall va-
riance from our last currency. • • • '
.
Wheat • . '454 a sal a 58s oil Tick Beans • e a 325'6d
Fine ditto - 59$ a bas
,f.,1 l Oat.s. - -
.145 a ~(7S .I. us
Barley _ 23s a 27s 0a i'ol.llld ditto 225 :i 23; ci.
Malt - - •:}as a 453-tid RapelieNt - - . 11l 3 "3-0
Rye .. - VA 3 ass od Fine 1, four - os A' 4ty oil
White Pease 335. a 39$ 9:1 Seconddo • 46$ a 451
Beans - 31$ a 364 oil

The allowance granted to Subaltern Of of
Militia in time of Peace,. has been issued for" the
year 18oz ; the West EsseX and Huntingdon lee
gitnents.have alre:tJy► received it. The Receivers
General of the Land Tax of the different Counties
are authorized to p.ty the same:

We have received Newspapers from Charlestown}
'South Carolina, to the 4th of January.
By Letters of the i zth of Deceniber, information,
was received at Charlestown, from Demerara anti ,
Essequebo, that, since the cession of those. Setcie, ,
ments to the Dutch, on the zd of Deceinber, the
Anglo-American traders had met vexations and
severities from the new Governor,
,14,vhiCh they
felt to be exceedingly unjt4and oppressive. 'mie.
diately after the Dutch tookpossession of the Settle-
ments, the trade with the Uolted States was„ put on
the same Iboting as before the year -1795;- or, in
other words, it was forhiddeif,• that aye produce of
Demerara or Essequebo should be expnrted to the
Ports of the United Btees, otherwise than in Dutch
bottoms. Not satisfied with impatiently renewing
d.
this regulation, the Dutch Governor (Aiwa those
Anglo-Arnerican Captains who had taken in their
cargoes while the British was still flying, but
had not then sailed, to re.land rb e Cargoet, and sail
without freight. The injustice of this last ad e/cs,
cited great indignation at Charlestown.

The French Government have permitted the ex.
portation of silk from Piedmont, by the war of
Nice or Lyons. The silks which are exporte;ihy
the way of Lyons, may be sent to foreign p4rt.3 by
Marseilles, Dunkirk, aild

One of the Overicers of Lewes having been late-
ly ballotted to serve in the urged that his
Office afforded him a legal exemption, amt eliiirned
that another person should be ballotted for in his
stead. The ease, however, was referred to the
Duke of Ric HMOND his Grace decided in farour
of the Overseer.

Extraordbun:y 0741,6ar0vi Prolua;rpt
these few days a hen fowl, beim:Ting to &mud
Silk, landlord of the ad Black Horse, *cup,
Kent, 'aid an egg of the usual size, of a y'ellowislt
brown colour, marked thus, " S, S." ache irtictls
of -the owner's name) in capitals, the figure of
heart, an X, and E fl, It has been submitted to
the inspeetion of Sir jos,rrtt liAxs.s, at a very ex.
traorclinary haks

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ,

I TRUST your candour will induce you to inkert
the following Letter on th, Tonnage Duty in our
Paper, as a reply to the• Letter whtch appeared in
it on Saturday last, and especially as 'The Suit is
take'n in by Many Shilr•Owuers.

VERAX.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE SIIIP TONNAGE DUTY.
1:9 lisqo

SIR)

The Ship,Ownere of Great Britain feeling very
forcibly. their depressed situation, and labouring.
under the disadvantages of great expences and low
freights, added to the burthensome Tax upon Ton-
nage, here. resolved to unite their efforts, by a
steady, firm, and temperate conduct, in endeavour.
ing'to obtain
.from the wisdom of the Legislature
the repeal of a Tax so injurious to them, and detri.
mental to the interest of the whole kingdom; At
this jandure, I trust a few observations on the
subjed, for the consideration of the Public, tending
to elucidate this. important question, will not be
thought impertinent or. superfluous.
It is a principle, universally agreed upon, and
supported by the unerring test of long experience,
that the interests of Naingation and the prosperity
of the United Kingdom are inseparable, , and must
stand pr fall with each other. Consistent with
this principle, it has been the uniform and'unremit-
tinglabour of out Government, aided by t)re wie7
dom of the Legislature, to prate& and promote.the
interest of British Shipping ; and as 'their endea.
yours have been so eminently rewarded by success,
it appears impossible to account for the strange re,
volution that has taken place in British pelicy, by
considering theM as' proper objects of. taxation ;
viewing the measure either on the ground' of na,,
tional' benefit, their aihcal state. Any relaxa.
tion front the salutary provisions of the Navigation
Laws, or indifference to their.benefits, must be sin-
carelr latnented, particularly at this time, when all
the Maritime Nations in the World seem ready to
risein,one united in ns, to wrest fromour hands the
Carrykg Trade, lay which we have obtained the,
- Empire of the Seat ; „and if we may judge of the.
value they tier upon this branch of Commerce, by:
their strenuous exertions to regain it, we May can.
elude, that they appreciate it more justly than Eng..
lishmewrewho have reaped its benefits. ,
Much stress has been laid on ' the industry and
entereriting spirit of British Seamen ; and, indeed,
if the con petition depended an them alone,, the
issue would not be doubtful. Let us not, however,
wantonly presume too far, by over.rating ler pow-
eri. Our comparative superiority is considerably
diminished from the imperious necessity :of employ.,
ils foreign seamen in the merchant service during
a Jong War, by which they have obtained the
skill and habits of English Seamen. And again,
Foreigners hive a striking and decided advan,,
take over Entlish Owners in point of cxpences ;
they procure their naval .stores at lower, prices,
being chiefly the produce of their own coun-
tries ; they have provkions cheaper, and, in con.
sequence• pay less wages. In the building or
equipment of an English ship, there is scarcely an
article used, from the laying down of the keel to
the rigging or the tenallant mast head, that is
not saddled with heavy duties. They are taxed in
their' timbers, planks, dealt, iron-work, masts, sails,
ropes, pitch, tar, &c. so that a ship when compleat,
bears imposts, amounting to five or six per cent. On
the whole value ; with which foreign ship§ (parti-
cularly those of the Northern States,'from whose
competition we have most to tear), are not burthen.
ed, and therefore it is impolitic, in the' depiesse,d
state of our Shipping, under many disidiaotages,
taxed in every article, to add a Duty on Tonnage,
and at the same time to levy 'a Tax on the inerchan-
dize they carry. We should an on a very erro-
r-MOO' principle, if we eStimatetraur future exer-
tions in competition by the past ; we are now
placed in a novel situation, by the accumulated ex.
Fences ihathave pressed in upon us within the pc-
rind of a very few. years, in the increased price of
naval stores, and all the necessaries of life. Most
assuredly, it would bebetter policy fer'this Coun-
try:to give Bounties to British Shipping, to enable
them to enter the lists again with the other barriers
of Europe, rather than suffer them to be borne
dtiele with a heavy impost, and other disadvan»
ttlgee, which must' give ForeignTottoms a decided
preference, and eventually deprive us of a valuable
source of riches and power. The burdens of tl}e
Landed -Interest have most pathetically been la.
merited; and, from this it has been inferred; that
Naval Commerce (errotiOntly stated to t* a lion.
fishing branch of trade) ought tube considered as a
proper objed of taxatitti, and made to hear 'its pro.
portion of the burdens necessary to raise Snpplies
for the exigencies of the State. This is a very fal.
lacious argument a it is used ; for it bears strongly
.
on the.•cOntrary side of the question. 'The' produee
of the land is the necessaries of life, and everyman
must feel:itiburdens as well ,as the Proprietors'; and
I tray venture to assert, that there is not class of
men in the Kingdom that finds their areas' in . a
greater proportion than Ship-Owners': they hit ve to
contend with them, not only, in the expence% of their
himsehold,, but in a manifold degree, in 'the main-
mance of :heir crews, orlrating in the rate of wages
ns.well as proviSioas. .I:he Landed Interest ha,; many
advantages over the :Commercial .the former has;
not: to contend With toreign competition, and the
value of land and its rent will 'always keep 'pace
with the. general prosperity of The Kingdom, which
eeneot he the case with particular branehei of trade ;'
and therefore the landed burden's are merely chime-
rical as the Proprietors, and are only to be appre.
beaded as injurious, as they efieet the. different
branches of manufadote4 anti commerce., Were
the Ship. Owners enabled from their situation anti
circumstances to transfer their burdens to the con.
sumption with the. same facility as Landliolderg.,
theirconiplaints as individuals could not have any
foundation or weight, cxqpt co the view, of
National Policy. Nor does it appear to have been
in contemphtion that the Shipping Interest had, the

power to lay the Duty on Freight ; or why is there
a division iv the tax, part on the merchandize, and
part on the tonnage, when it might have been cola
*fled with eqtial facility together ? And ye, un-
:der this view, in which it appears to have been
'levied, it is contrary to the principles of taxation
altogether. This: tax has another bad circa, which,
t is probable, the Government are not yet aware of.
Many Ships now leave our Ports in ballast, as
well Foreign as British, to avoid the Duty, that
.formerly used, to export mall quantities of our ma.
nufadured goods and other merchandize, from which
they are now totally prevented by the operation of
;the Tax for if the export be ever so small, she
'whole. Tonnage Duty and Custom-house charges
must be paid, as if the lading were compleat. This
might be remedied by confining the duty to the ex-
ported and imported merehandize only, as it would
then be in exalt proportion to the magnitude of the
adventure. As it now stands, it is not beneficial
to the Revenue, even was a measure of Finance,
abstraled from, every consideration whatever.
it has been stated in defence of this duty, that
the exports and imports of British bottoms, for
twelve months, ending
,the Toth Odober, iSoz,
compared with the exports and imports of Foreign
Ships during the same period of time immediately
preceding it, have increased very considerably,
But admitting the. fad, it is no criterion to judge
of the state of Vitish Shipping : the answer is a
la6t conclusive in point, and eqoally true—there is-
not at present sufficient employment for two-thirds
of the Ships belonging to the Country ; and the
Freights that are obtained will not pay the expences
of navigation. Without resting on this fad, the
inefease is easily accounted for. It arose from a
coalition of the Maritime States of Europe, jealous
of our naval superiority, and instigated by French
policy, at a time when we were threatened with in.
vasion, supposing at such a crisis, we could not
scare our Fleets to support our long established
rights. By this coalition, a compleat suspension of
our Carrying Trade to the Baltic and the whole
Continent took place for six months,' within the
former period alluded to, and during its continu.
ance, the Navigation Laws were suspended in fa.
vour of Foreign Ships; and is it t:lien a matter of
wonder, or even a proof of prosperity,' that in a
comparison between the most unpropitious period
which the Ships of this Country ever experieoced,
with the first year of Peace, there should appear
an increase of trade in' the latter period ? If their
depressed state be a matter of doubt, it can be
proved by undeniable fads. 'f hey are now reduced
to two-thirds of 'their former value; several have
been sold to foreigners for want of employment ;
and.a still greater number are now engaged in the
service of other Countries, carrying foreign flags,
and navigated according to the laws of rival States,
.with foreign Seamen' to 'the injury of our great
national interest.

I am well aware that the Shipping Interest of
Great Britain is labouring under difficulties which
cannot at this moment he remedied, .and farther,
that they must undergo a severe trial •but surely
the moment of depression and trial ought not .to be
the signal for levying upon 'them be.tvy impost !
Let us look to the different policy Which now ac.
:ratites two of the greatest POVVS and rival States
in Europe—France is giving Bounties to hcr Ship-
ping, and, Great Britain thinks it expedient to im.
pose a Tax !—lt is' called a Tax of Experiment
,but how long is the trial to continue ? Must we
wait until our ships are rotten; and our Carrying
Trade is lost ? And when etperieneft has taught us,
that our first and best Commercial Interest is de.
strayed, will the renal, unddi Such circumstances,
regain it ? To say no worse of it, it is' certainly a
dangerous expuriment fur titt interests ''of the
Country. The well-known disposition of Ship.
Owners ought to secure then) from syspicimis
complaining without a cause. They' are pa,-.ive
to a fault; and Oleic supineness .when their general
interests art in danger, is become proverbial. If io
this case they have with ursijed voice froirralliaks
of the Kingdom prayed the Legislature to repeal a
measure so injurious, it 'must be attributed to the
unprecedented state and depression in 'which they are'
placed, and,not a common case, or trivial matter,
that has aroused the,A froth their natural apathy to
a just sense of their mutual interest.

I am apprehensive, Sit, that the magnitude and
interest of the subjea have unintentionally led me
to trespass on your attention, 1. shall therefore con_
elude these observations with the most fervent
wish, that the Legislature will not spat the Bri.
fish Shipping to be overborne with diffiatiltiei and
imposts, as upon them must ever depend'the Naval
Superiority and Political Importance of the, Batish
Empire.

ANIATQR
10) 11302. ,

OLD BAILEY.

SECOND DAY--IIILTR!•)) rru. r 7,
Solomon, a Jew 40y, about alit-it:en years
old, was capitally convided of a burglary find theft
in the dwening.bouse of Joseph Woottvorth.
The Prosecutor keeps a shop in Sluirediteb. It
was proved that the Prisoner 41 ter it was, dark, in
the evening, cut a window pane of the. Prosecutor's
'shop, and rook thereout two bilk handkerchiefs, &a.
as laid in the indidment.

The case being clearly and shortlyproved, the
Leaped Judge obseryed, thati“io.fillse lenity, on
ageount of tender lge, should inducd the 'jury to
acquit—that consideration might prove favourable
to him in the apportioning his punishment : boys,
like the Prisoner, were often •made the instruments
of aged depredators; and his. Lordship thought the
conviction of the Prisoner might, be eventually-use.

Autlrarryjenpav and Richard Galt also were
capitally convaled of a burglary in the house of
Wrn. Thomas, a resident in Pelhant.street,
fields, 4nd stealing therein a quantity of wearing
apparel and other articles his property—,Drath.

Thomas ktio-rdy was indiCted for stealing 3 quJn.
tity of black lace from a Swedish 'Mariner, named

Polk Estroni. .The Moor. was One of those
t harpers who infest the streets of the Metropo
lh, and watch the country.,people and foreigners,
to whom they desire to speak in private, and
then offer great bargains of ,paburble goods, which
they carry concealed about them, so as to impress
one with an idea of their being smuggled. The.
Prosecutor, who was the Mate of a Swedish Vessel
that lay in the River, had been one day about the'
middle of last month, in the city, to purchase seve.
rat articles that he wanted to take with him to hi 3
own country. As he was returning to the Minories,
he met the Prisoner, who decoyed him into a public
house, and prevailed on him to purchase stockings
and various other articles, which he considered at
the time very cheap, but which, on reaching his
lodging and skewing them to some, friends, he found
to be good for, nothing. In a day or two after, he
wet the Prisoner in the exercise of his occupation,
and taxed hini with fraud. He followed him into
a house, and happening to have the lace laid in the
indiament about him, the Prisoner contrived that
one of, his accomplices should take it away. For
this he was apprehended and indiaed. The Jury
found him

R ert Mathews was cap i tally indiaed, for stealing
a mare, • the property .of Thomas Keats, a 'Livery
Stable .keeper at Moorgate. It appeased, by the
evidence of the prosecutor, that on the Bth inst. he'
-tome to 'his Stables, agiteed to hire a horse for one
day.to go to Kentish Town, for which he was to.
pay 55. and described himself as Captain Thompson,
of the,,Minories. This happened about eleven
o'clock. On,the evening of. the ~ame aboot
four o'clock, he, went to the Red Lion Livery Sta-
bles, at Charing-cross, and, there sold the 'mare for
61. to the ostler, describing himself by a different
name, saying he wits,a,cheesemonger.—Ggiity.

On Saturday last, a Lady proceeding to Wands.
worth was accosted by a beggar, who implored alms
of her; and while the Lady was examining her Purse
to relieve the miscreant, he suddenly snatched it
from her, and ran off without being apprehended.
The purse contained two seven shilling pieces and
ti 6.1. in silver.
It hay been stated, that the late, and present Por-
tuguese A mb.is,,attors lost their watches at the Opera
Masquerade, on Thursday se'nnight, by giving "them
in.charge to a person who pretended to belong to the
House. The fait is, that on entering the Theatre,
they gave their watches to Townsend, the Bow-,
ttreet Officer, who returned them of i the following
nu.rno b.

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CR AVESENP, ixa• 16.
Sailed—the Oneitii Chief, Kemp, for New- ; Olive
Wright, tor' Gibraltar, end the jortgelytira, Dole,
tut !Lim. . .

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to Miss Sarah Siltehwel% of Whetstone. •

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On Monthiv last, at Elio liontcht,Gutarnsq, in the .fti.l year-.
of Jigs 2gc, Thom4s Le Nhitch.int. Esq. ,

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