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'11:e .Report of the Cnrnrnitiee, on the Cotton
1' lanufaf3ureri' Petition way brought up, .and the
Resolotioris read_antr agrerd to, and a Bill ordered.
The Report of the County Bridge Bill was
brought up, and the amendments read and agreed
to. The. Bill was then ordered to be read a third
time on 'Tuesday next.

The SECRETARY at WAX brought up the Ar!pr
Estimates for the ,year 1803, alid observed, th;ft
it was his intention to move them in a coturnittec
of. Snrdy on Monday next'.
Si i6,4ort r. Coin wait, moved for leave to bring
in a Bill to grant Magistrates a pgp,wer to allow an
additional number of Horses to draw Carriages on
the Turnpike granted.
Liurd HAwnEsitati brought up tievei:d Papers
relative to the late Negotiation.
The LORD M AYO It of 'LortooN. .presitstpti B.
r“ilion 'from certain Siik"Manufaeloters, setting
forth' that the .Duty which it was proposed to lay on
the Importation of Silk Handkerchiefs, by the Dill
for Consolidating the Customs, would not afford
them, as it was supposed it would; a sufficient pro—
ttdion in carrying .on their Trade.-;-"Ordered to
lie on the Table.

Sir" vv , t., LIAM CURTIS presented a similar Pea,.
tion from the Silk Weavers. of SpitA Melds, staling
Otat they-could prove that the Dory of zs per Cent.
which it was proposed to lay oh the Importation of
Silk Handkerchiefs, from 'Peti, would not afford
them any protceitoo their frade, inasmuch•as
they paid a larger 1%4 upon the Silk they used in
their manufaaures!.. In both- instances the Peri-
tionera • prayed 'to be beard by Counsel.--The Pe-
tition was ordered to lie on the Table.
Mr. BOOTLE wished to call the attention , of
the CHANCELLOR ache EXCHEQUER, Lathe situ.
ation Of some persons engaged in carrying on the
Trade of Potters. 'lt *bad been stigges!O to him,
by two Persons who I;Jd e';'ntiarked bite 'Capitals in
that' Trole ant.l who had nutf till-'vtry. ret:ehtli,
• . • • •

seen flit Scheilule relative to the Consolidation of
the Duties, that they would suffer very materially
by the Regulation which it was proposed to make,
respeaing the iinportatiun of Chiro. As• these
Persons woul.i be very much &fled by this Itcg,ll.
larit n, he ITe,l CrtANcELLutt of the',Excii...
,Qtr Eit would vor 11iTSS the second reading oche Bill;
,until they had time. to lay their Case before .Parlia-
mcnt..

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'
said, that if the second reatung'of the Bill were to
. be delayed, it would not `answer the Hon. Gentle.
man's purpose, because- any alteration which he
„might wish to mike could' only be made in the Com.
mittee. Great i6ins -.had, been taken to circulate
the. Schedule, and he was sorry that the persons al.
luded to bad not seen it", but 'he 'hoped 'that if the
CoMmittee was put off till Tuesday, they would
have sufficient time -to prepare any representation
they might wish-to make to Parliament: •
141,-.. CANNING rose: to give notice, that he
should to.morrow• move for Copies of all the Re.
presentations:Made by the Inhabitants of Malta,
through the medium of the Maltese Deputies
in this Country, or otherwise,* between the Sign.
ing •of the Preliminary and Definitive Treaties
of Peace-. The second Paper he wished for,
*was a copy of the Dispatches of -Lord Corn.
wallis,, containing an . account of the discussions
between him and the French Minister at Amiens,
on the 18th and nath of February, t So 2, relative
. • , •, •
Mr,.:-SHERIDAN observed, that as a Debate
was to' come on next -Friday, the Hon. Gentleman
had better move for the Paoar3 at present, that the
Hotise might have the benefit Of than When the De-
bate came .on. • •
Mr. CANAING said, he had consulted the No-
ble Secretary of State, and i: was by his wish that
he had given.notice of hiS.intention to move for
them-to.morrow. '
Lord tiAII'KESBUWY said, that with regard to
the Second Paper,- h,e should• certainly oppose it ;
with regard to the other, he did not. feel such strong
objeliuns to it ; but he wished to have till to.mor.
row to consider of it. •,
Lod FOLKSTONP, moved that 'the Second At.
tide of the Treaty of
,Amiens should -be read ; it
was. read accordingly. lit said.that as it did not
appear, that any thing had been "done to carry that
article into execution; he should move that an
humble Address be presented to His Majesty, pray.
ing that he would be gradcusly pleased to give
diredions for laying before the House, copies of all
the Representations made by the. British Govern.
ment on account of the steps taken by them towards
carrying she said, Article:into execution.
Lord HAIFIreESBCIRYsaid:he should feel it ne-
cessary to' move the previous question; or the Or.
der or the Day, upon this, Motion. With regard
to the "Article itself, it was the wish of Gentlemen
to follow the example which had been set them in
• the twoforrner Treat; s' .e, Peace 111 1763, and 1783,
respeelins Prisoners of War: There was a considerable
deal of contest upon this point, but Ministers thought
.it their duty .to main ~in the principle. But the
Frerich Government laid in a claim, which 'appear-
ed to be founded in justice; viz, That there .should
be set against the English Account, all 'the foreign
Prisoners taken by France, and who were in the
pay, and' at the command of England.. .This slid not
allude tc? the Austrian Prisoners, but to the Hessians,
fanoverians, Russians, d;c: who avere 'in our.pay,
And at our command. This, claim appeared to be
- founded in•justice, and was acceded to—but it then
became diffieult to ascertain, if there was a balaoce, on
which side it was Jur. The great °hied that Ministers
had in view, was rather to maintain the principle
respeaing Prisoners of War, than' to Obtain any
sum.of moneys 's After the Treaties of
Peace' of 1763 and 1783, there were large/sums of
money, due by the-French Government, and these
was no aer.olf; as ;in the present case, whip were
not pail. ' On these grounds he should move, that
the other Order the Day should be read, not
thinking .that sufficient groundchad been laid for
the snotion. •

Mr. T. GRENVILLE said; he did not think

that the Noble Lord had given a satisfactory an..
saver to the mution.of the Noble Lord. Ir was not
the objeCt of the motion to discuss whether it was
their duty to proceed to'the completion of theseand
Article of the Treaty of Amiens, its objet'; was
merely to ascertain the fat% whether they had
taken any steps or nor. The moving the Order- of
the Day upon. the Motion-would not prevent any
Member from repeating, the Motion when the other
Orders of the Day were'gone through. • The ex.
plmation of the Noble Lord merely went to chew
the reason why Ministers had not endeavoured to
'carry the second Article of the Treaty into.execu.
lion, but whether their condnet vas right ar not in
that. point would he a suhjett for ilium discussion ;
but surely it would not be.contended, that the 1-I.iue
ought not to be put in posse.Ssion of the fan, Y.lle.
they that Article had been ,executed ot,not.
GenereII'GASCOYNE, said, he understood from
.hati. fallen. from the Noble SECIRTARY of

SrAla, that no application had been made by the
Btitiat Government for carrying that article into

execution.---He wished however Tor some more ex-

piicit'infortpation upon this stilled with regard to
the number of Foreign Troops we were to pay for,
and the Country to which they belpnged. If the.
Noble Lord Ineant,to say that that article was in.

serteti in • the '4'reaty merely as a matter of form,
and that Ministers did not know whether a balance

was due to this Country or to France, he was
certainly answered for the present, but he should
inove for some further information upon the aub.
jeLL

The Motion for )he Order of the Day was then
carried.

Mr. SHERIDAN gave notice that he .should
make his Motion• to-morrow. respecting the ex.
.changing the Lists on the Middlesex Election.
11/r. BOND, moved that a .new writ should be
issued for the borough of Southwark, in the room
of the 'Right Hon. GgoltqE TIRRNEy, who slice
his eldlion had accepted the Office of Treasorer of
the Navy.
The Order of the Day was read for the third
reading of the Dilitiria-Pass

The SECRETARY at WM! brought up a cijusc
for iiivio4ing a Ptnalv of,sol, upOn pny High Cur.-

stable, Adjuiant, Serjeant, &c. who should take
Insurances for Privates in the Militia.=-The Clause
was agreed to, and t!icll was passed. - -
The Militia Bill was read a third time and
passed. . . •
The °islet Of the Day. was read for a second
reading of the Consolidation Duty Bill.
The LORD- MAYOR observed, that under the
present circumstances. the Ship Owners did not ob-
Jen to the Tonnags Duties, and therefore they
~withdrew their. opposition to the Bill.
Gerreral GASCOYNE observed, that he thought
the Bonding and Warehousing system was.matetiall)*
connected in many-points with the present Bill, and
he wished to know when Ministers intended to go
into the consideration of that subjeft.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, the measure alluded to by the Hon. Gentle-
man had occupied. much of_ the attention 'of His
Majesty's Ministers, but it had.been..delayedfrom
a great pressure of business ; he hoped, however,
to he enabled in the course of a short time to bring
forward that subject, with respell to which it was
proposed that no Duty should he paid in the first
instance on,articles.warehoused, but as soon as the
articles were taken out of the warehouse for con-
sumption, the Duty must then be paid; 'ln order
that this measure should have the desired die& in
different parts of the Country, it is intended that
no licence can be granted to the different Ports to
warehouse articles, till proofs are registered chat
such Ports have tis.,ll' a certain time in those .arti-
cles they wish to warehouse, and that 'there are suffi-
cient warehouses provided. After these proofs are
obtained, it is not proposed to viable the Lords
of the Treasury -to grant licences,„ without there
are. some antecedent circumstances. It is also
intended that every application for that put.
pose should be submitted- to the Board of Cus.
toms, 'Board of Trade,•and Board of Excise and
if the application is approved of by
.the Boards of
Trade and Customs, and in some instances by the
Board of Excise,-the Lords of the Treasury should
he enabled to grant the application. The great °Ned
in the measure proposed, is to prevent any abuse that
may arise from unlimitted power, being vested in
the Lords of the Treasury. He hoped the Bill
noiv before the House would pass, as he thought it
highly'useful to the Public ; but when in a Commit.
tee, he should be/happy tto.hear.any remark on the
merits of the Bill.
Mr. CORRY said, he meant to propose, when
the measure came again under consideration, to ex-
tend it to the Ports of Ireland.
The Bill was ordered to be committed to a Corn.
mittee of the whole House on Tuesday next:
The House went into. a Committee of the whole
House to consider the Consolidationof Taxes.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
the measure he was'about to submit to the Commit-
tee, he 'thought Would be generally approved by the
country at large, and particularly by those Gentlemen
who had to enforce and explain the Law with raped
tosfaxei leviedon the Subjea.4 It had so happened
that scarcely two Commissioners had agreed alike
on the letter of the Law which regulated the various.
Taxes of the Country, and men •of the first reaped-
ability and honour had been placed in-a very un-
pleasant situation, when in the discharge of their
duty, from the ambiguity of some plot= Tax. Laws•
It was therefbre proposed that the Taxes should be
consolidated, and. rendered as clear as possible. The
Judges-had. 'been ,often applied 'to for opinions on
those Laws he had just mentioned, which had re--
peatedly given the Commissioners considerable
trouble.; he should' now propose that the opinions
anti decisions of the Judges, form a part of the new
Law,. in order to •prevent the trouble which . has
hitherto been felt by the'Commissioners of TaXes.
In order that the Law shall not be oppressive to chose
persons who ate obliged to give a schedule to the Corn.
missioners, containing the Taxes they, are liable to
pay, it is propased that they be allowed to make an
Amendment 'ont their return, before they are sub.
jet to any penaltyfor a false.statement. It is also
proposed, 'that any hosbantiMan, gardener, &c. who
occasionally •waits at table, should only pay es.
per year. It wss alsti.proposed, that the stall of
two guineaa per year should be paid fur every Race
Horse, over and above the 'usual Tax on Saddle
Horses. He should next inform the Committee,
that it was intended that every Rider, Book-keeper,
and Shop-mac, &c. should pay the sum of one guieetk
per year ; this would be the means to enCooragf
the employ of female tervan'ts ; and that those per:
,sons who have built, or may build windows under
a certain size, with an intention to evade the Win-
dow duty, should pay the suns of two guineas per
year for every such. window, The Right Hon.
Gentleman observed,. it was very common of late
for persons to keep but one set of carriage wheels,
and Several bodies of various forms and names.—
he should therefore propose a Duty on the Sociable
and other Carriages; these,,, with some other a;te.
rations in the Taxes, would, he had no doubt,
meet with general approbation, and answer the pur.
pose intended.
Mr. 51111 F LEFEPRE expressed his approba.
tion of the tut,asure, but observed there was one

point lie would mention, which the Right Hon. the

CHANcELLOR of the EXCHRQUER had not noticed,

and that'was, a person keeping a dog for not more
than three days, .was liable to pay -a year's tax.
This, he thought, called for consideration and im-

provdment.

• Sir RQRSRT BUXTON said the manner of pay-
ing,the taxes, was much worse than paying them :
he also thought the poor husbandman ,who keeps a

horse for hiilabour, ought to be an °hied of con-
sideration. He was glad that the decision of the
Judges on the Law.in question would form pan of

die law, as it wopld pre-vent Much 'confusion; which

has taken place op puny occasions.
The CHANCELLOR of .the EXCHEQUER
said, he was extremely glad that the intended tnea.

sure would give g:niraT satattlion. The Right
Hon. Gentleman observed there was an intention to

exempt persons from the House and Window Tax
who were known to. be in extreme poverty, und.l-
- regulationi. He was desirous that some
regulation sho9ld take place with re_ spat to persons
being liable to pay a.yearts tax for a dog, &c. they
Indy only hay: In po6.sc3pOti a few days. He then
informed tilt ommittee, that the Bilt in question.

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was only intended for EnglAnd ; and that -a Di'
would-be brought in to the sainecfreA for Sentlantl.
The Report was then brought up, an& nAlero
to be received to.mOrrow,
.
The. House 'went into a Committee of StirpY•
The CUANCELLOk of the EXCHEQUER MOW
Resolutions for cloathing the Nltlitia, and nylking•ar
allowance to various Officers belonging to it.
The House also went into a COmmittee of WaV
Means, when it -prOpcsea and—agOed
that 'the expences of the Militia be defraked *out 01
the Land Tax.
The liassengers' ,Bill was , ordered to he read 2
third time to-morrow... _ •
The House 'went into a Committee on the Con.
voy Bill, and the Report ordered to be received ti.
morrow.
'the East India Shipping Bill was ordered to be
read a third time on Wednesday next. •
The Redemption Bill was read a•thitd time ad
passed.
A person from the CommissiOneriof the Ct 150315
in Scotland brought up • several accounts relative
thereto.
Mr. POLE moved for leave to bring in a Bilntl for
vesting -CCITAIO Lands in the County of Ke,
His Majesty's Government, for the use of the al.
nance. •
The House adjourned at 8 o'Clock.

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