The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-11 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

. 7.

' YEOMA s ay.—The following Official Order for
•
embodying the Yeomanry Corps, under the•cOm,
mand of Sir WILLIAM STAMEM, Bart., traS he:en
issued by authority : g. ••
-Dublin Castle, 7th December,
Sea_l am directed bythe Lord. Lieutenant to acquaintio4u:
that his ENcellenCyhas been pleased to approve:of the Barrack
Corps of Yeomanry, under your command, being angmented •
to Eight Companies of 40 men each. His Excellency at the
same tune directsme fo obsuKe that it is to be distinctly intert. •
stood; that no eXClusion is to be made on account of religion, •
in the persons forming the•augmentation, loyalty and-good aon-
duct being the qualifications required.. If this is not strictly
maintained the Lord Lieutenant must decline sanctioning the
augmentation.
A blank form of roll is inclosed, which you will have, pro- ,
perly filled up and forwarded to this Department, with the at-:-
testations of the men ; and when the same is received-the re- .
csary Letters of Service will be issued; and the other official
steps taken to place the corps in an efficient state. .
I have the lionour to be, Sir, •
Your most obedient humble Servant; • • '
• CHAS. GRANT.

Sir AVILLIAm STAMER Baronet, Captain
Commandant Barrack Yeomanry.

The Clare Staff patrole constantly id -.the neigh--
hourhood of Clare Castle ;.•parties of the. 93d
and the'liolice are out every night in .this town:..
and suburbs. ht gives us treat satisfaction in
being enabled- -to -state that we enjoy perfect
tranquillity.—(Clare Journal.) • •
• The following are the quarters of the 3d Light
Dragoons :—At Newcastle, (head-quarters), one
troop, con4anded by Colonel Lord CHARLES
MANNERS, .P. Itathkeale, two troops, com-
manded by Major CHARLES STISTED Adare,
One subaltern and 'twenty-two meu ; Tippetary,
one _troop Kilrnallocl, one troop ; Tralee, one,
subaltern, and tvreuty men; Listowel, oue•cap-..-
tain and. twenty-two men -; Askeaton, one ser-
jeant and six men ; Croom, one serjeant and..
twelve then ; Caber., thr-ee officers and -fifty men,'
with heavy baggage.—Since Monday last, pur-
suant to the Lord Lieutenant's order, "the
tart' pensioners in this distriCt have =been mus- •
tered at the New Barracks, the head-quarters of
Lieutenant,Colonel Dotfp LAS, commanding the
garrison. Upwards of 700 appeared? *hose
names were taken down, their ages, residence,_
and by whom known.—(LiMerick Papei..)

MERCANTILE SHIPPING; lec.
DEAL, DEE. S.S.W.--Came doWn from the
River and remain the Sir Godfrey Webster, Telfer, for Liver-
pool and_ New South Walei ; and John, Popplewell, for
Madeira and Jamaica. Arrived and sailed fin' the River the
General Palmer, Truscoll, from Madras," &c. •Telus, Chilton,
from Pernambuco ; Eagle, Williams, from Cephalonia ; Ruby;
Corneby, from Lisbon ; Essex, Robertson, from Charentel and
some more names unknown. Airived and remain the Phcenix,
Lobeck, from Ostend for Liverpool. The American ship Isis,'
Woodberry, from Flushing for Havannah, arrived off
Dungeness last night.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 10.—'—Wind" S.W.:-.-Arrived the
Nymph, ..Hutchinson,. .from The Downs for Naples. The
Thomas Coutts is come in front St. Helens to the Motherbank.
Sailed the Prince Regent, Murdoch, for Amsterdam.
ItAMSGATE, 'DEC. 10.—Arrivtd the Genu, Bezant, from
London for Valparaiso, with loss of an anchor, &c.
l AnwlClr, DEC. IU.--Arrived the Eliza, Stevens, front
Firth of Forth ; John, Tinmouth, from Wisbeach • and
Adelphi, Errington, from Shields, adwith loss of anchors and
cables. Henry Freeling, Lady Nepean, and Lord Nelson
packets, with mails, from Holland ; .Tane and Charlotte packets,
with ditto .from Gottenburgli. Sailed the Henry Freeling
packet, for Cuxhaven ; and Lady Ncpean, ditto, for Holland,
each with a mail. _ _

Scartuoutivax, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Louisa, Alexander,
from Yarmouth for "Newcastle, with-loss of sails, having been
blown off the land,. and experienced very bad weather.
Pt.Y:Nloti Dtc.'9.--Wind S.W.—Arrived the Rover,
.Pattersoir,-.4itith.:Zunte, and :the, following cnirwrscl-bound,
vessels :-:-Erothers, Ferguson ; Fliesdo, Tennant;- Welling-
ton, Paisley ; William, Gunn ; Merlin, . Weeks.; and New •
Volunteer, Dwarris; for the West Indies ; Magnet, Tod, for
Naples, &c. ; Albion, Burrell, for-Leghorn ; and Ann, Cor:..
diner, for Pernambuco. .. •
lloi.YrekaD, DEC. 9.—The sloop. Bee Raymond, from
Liverpool for Cork, got upon the Cupherd'RoCki on 7th last.,
and is gone to pieces ;—crew saved. -
PwwiELY, DLL:. 9.—The Repeater's., cargo. has all beta .. •.,
saved ; 754 bales of cotton in good order ; 230 do. damaged ; -
and sm. barrel staves. They-are all' shipping for Liverpool.
The vessel's materials are also saved, some part -of which, along •
with the wreck, have been sold. ' ,
• ,
9.—Wind S.W.--Artived the Lady
Arabella packet, with a mail, from Lisbon, in five days; and`
Lady Mary, Pelham, ditto, with mails, from. Corfu;
27th October, Malta the 3rd of 'Nciveinber, arid Gibraltar the
2.ith ditto ; Betsy, Marzt.d,
.from Gibraltar,'-iniS•days; '
tannia, Henderson, from Malaga ; and Statina, Thomas, Irotrl.:"
London for Havannah.
PORT GLASGOW DEC.B.- Put back theVatharine, 13urni,
for Jamaica, leaky ; she has been out since the 17th ult.. - '

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. are happy to state, that ail; ,
Chesterfield packet, Capt. Starr Wood, arrived this morning
and notwithstanding the very heavy gales of wind-which have.+.
Good
Intent, quite
nseaefde:
from after
Penrynbeing t
sea
four lately been experienced, this beautiful sea-boatbrought 23 pas- -
setalr gedrasy,
days.
—Arrived
tie crew,
Penzance ; Maria, Norcott; from Bristol'; Liberty, Blanchard,-
from Cork ; Elizabeth, Wheeler; Chesterfiold, Wood ; and .•'
Prince Cobourg, Page, from Havre; Maria,- Norton, frOrn
Corfu and Marseilles-; Elizabeth, Brown ; Friends' ,Itegard,(..
Thorsby ; Sead.o.wer .Walton ; Concord, Ransom ;Vine, Pooki;:,.
Betsy, Hornsby ; iwo Brothers, ic„night ; Acorn,lVilkinson ; "
Vine Headley ; Oak, Wyness; Brothers, Mayer, ; Brilliant, ..
Marshall ; Hannah,- Taylor'; Boneta, Harrison; and. James,
Bull, from Sunderland ; Sylvanus, Purvis, froin Newcastle ;
/Bolus, Le Maitre, from Guernsey.. Sailed Lanhge,•
for London ; Betsey, 'swarth, for Weymouth ; _John, Pile, •
for Bristol; Diligent, Porter, for Guernsey';.' Here, Falk,
for,Jersey : Elizabeth, Wheeler,:for Caen. . • •
Cow} s, Dte. 7.—Arrived the Eagle, Morrill,: from George
Town ; 'Liverpool. Packet,:. Coffin, frtan Batavia ; ,Sophia, , •
Hooper, from -Faro ; - Vigilentia, Smith ; Ilopeivell,
and Briton, Stokes from London.—Sailed.the Lae; ;
and-Liverpool -Packet, Coffin, for Amsterdam; Ann, Mills,
for Waterford; Wellesley, Smith ; Richard and Sibella,
Barkley ; Dennison, Reed ; and Mary, Brown, for Jamaica
Manjo Bay,. Down, for Tobago ; Jane, Anderson, for'Bour'„,
deaux ; Victory, Braithwaite, for Gibraltar.
L'iriarivo•KoN.DEc. 7.—Arrived the Neptune, Foot, frain'
Shoreham ; Wittering',' Russell, from Chichester. Sailed • the
Felicity, Pritchard, for Sligo Fortune,' Downing, for Trieste ; ,
Hope, Parry ; and Wellington, Thomas, -:for Chester ; Success,.
Devereaux, for LiverpOol; Eliza, Welden, Plymouth;
_Eames, Weyniouth.•
- - .. •

•
The East India Company's ship Charles Gritt.it,' arrived ati
Bombay the 10th of June. The General Hams sailed, from!
the Isle of Bourbon on the 31st of May, arrived at Madras on.
the 20th of June, and was exiiected to proceed on her voyage
to China, about the 15th of August.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE INTERCOURSE BE-
TWEEN IRELAND AND ENGLAND. -,
" Treasury Chambers, Nov. 28;1821.
" Sin—Having laid before the Lords Commissioners of his.
Majesty's Treasury your application, stating the inconvenient
Situation of the
.present Custom House at Holyhead; for the
purpose of examining the baggage of passengers arriving there
from Dublin, and requesting that the hours of attendance at
Holyhead, for the discharge of baggage, may be extended-
-1 have it in command to acquaint you-that, in purivaneeto their
Lordships'. order of the 30th of June last, the Commissioners of
Customs have issued instructions to their Officers at Holyhead,
upon the arrival .of any packet from Dublin in •the _night, to
.give immediate attendance at the Custom House, and, when=
ever required, to remain an hour, or, if, necessary, an hour and
a half, after the arrival of the packet, for the purpose of ex-
amining and passing the baggage of-Sikh passenger's; who
may require the immediate delivery thereof. :That the Crim-
missioners are, at this time, in treaty with the Commissioners
of Holyhead Harbour, for a piece of ground, for the purposc: cif
erecting a New Custom-Hottse, contiguous to that part of the
harbour where the passengers are landed and.. my Louis Lre
of opinion,: that the orders which hive been given for ext,
ing the hours of attendance, ..arrd the erection of a Cr stom-
House on the spot proposed, will be the means of obvi:Li ng all
the inconvenience complained of in your representation, anu f
affording every possible facility for the examination of the ha, -
gage of passengers arriving at Holyhead from Dublin.---I am,
Sir, your obedient Servant, « R. LUSHING TON.'

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

BALLY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

December 11.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Paris Papers contain no domestic intelli-
gence of any interest. Under present circum-
stances, however, the very absence of such intel-
ligence has its value. Alinisters, it seems, under-
stand in France, as well as elsewhere, the
Wisdom of retaining their places in the teeth of
a parliamentary majority, and can trust to for-
tune and their own dexterity for the means
of proving by the result the prudence of their
determination. The Chamber of Deputies is
not dissolved, notwithstanding their Address
to the King ; and the Ministers keep their
seats, notwithstanding their minority. The first
measure proposed by the defeated Cabinet is
one of extreme severity, most unpopular in its
nature, and which ought to proceed in ordinary
circumstances only from a Cabinet confident in
its Itretigth. The measure, however, was, in the
present doubtful state of the Ministry, judiciously
elected. The danger of the Ministers consists
in the unexpected union of two parties in the
Chamber which are usually most violently op-
posed to each other, and which, in fact, could
agree only in their desire to exclude frOm power
a. Ministry disliked by both. This junction is as
unnatural as it was unexpected, and cannot con-
tinue upon any measure of great national import-
ance ; the law, therefore, for controlling the free-
dom of the press by means of a censorship must
dissolve their union, and the Ultra-Royalists vot-
ing with the Ministers upon this question, will
most probably secure to them once more the ap-
pearance of leading a majority in the Chamber.
The reports are as vague and as contradictory as
ever upon the subject of the war between Russia
and Turkey. The Persian army has passed the
Euphrates, formidable, at least, in numbers ; and
in consequence of the previous drafting of its
Asiatic troops by the Ottoman Porte for the de-
fence of its European possessions, the Persians
will probably be enabled to advance deeply into
the dominions of Turkey before they experience
any serious opposition. This invasion will have,
at .least, one good effect : it will compel the
Porte to divert its attention in a great degree
from the Grecian insurrection, and should the
Greeks profit by this diversion, it may finally
become a matter of grateful contemplation to the
friends of Greece, that the sons of Themistocles
and Leonidas should owe the freedom of their
country to the policy and courage of the Persians.

[MORNING HERALD.]

The well known Guerilla Chief, Mina, had
been removed from his command at Corunna, for
Joining in the proceedings of the people of Cadiz.
The Ultra. Journals say that he refused to resign
tiffs command, and that he was marching with
-30,000 men upon Madrid. We do not believe
.this statement; should it prove true, we shall
mike the amende honorable to these Journals ;
should it prove false, it may serve as a standard
,by which to estimate their veracity. There are no
fresh accounts worth notice relative to the Greek
insurrection. Letters from the lonian Islands
state, that martial law had been extended from
Zlante to Cerigo, and that the greatest discontent
prevailed throughout that government. We shall
not pretend to judge the situation of these islands,
or the perpetual jarring between the inhabitants
and. the Lord Protector, as they call Sir T.
Maitland ; but it is clear that the people must be
the most perverse, or the Administration, to say
the least of it, destitute of capacity or of virtue.
Accounts from Rome state, that a chivalrous
spirit has suddenly manifested itself among the
ladies and young men of that city. The former,
with their wealth, and the latter with their
swords, proposed to furnish out cruizers against
the Turkish infidels. The Pope, however, has
checked their ardour, by declaring that they
must postpone their heroic enterprise until the
rest of Christendom shall join in the crusade.

• [NEW TIMES.]
Every day brings intelligence of fresh advances
toward a state of complete anarchy in Spain.—
We yesterday mentioned the rebellious defiance
of the Royal authority by the town of Cadiz.—
This day we have to record a similar piece of in-
solence on the part of Corunna. Espoz y Mina,
the military commandant at that place, sent a
threatening Memorial, which was delivered into
the King's own hands by a Colonel of artillery.
The bearer was immediately arrested, not only
on account of the language of the Memorial, but
because he added to it verbal insults, addressed to
the Sovereign in person. The taxes, it is alleged,
are no where paid. Biscay, Navarre, and Arra-
goo, are menaced with insurrection. Some gar-
risons cry aloud for a Republican Government,
While others as loudly assert their resolution to
defend the existing Constitution. The Clubbists
of the Fontana de Uro are as audacious as ever :
one of them i❑ a public harangue exclaimed,
" that the tree of liberty must be watered with
waves of blood."

[MOANING POST.I
We received last night Gibraltar Papers to
the 20th ult. They announce the arrival of the
slew Governor, the Earl of Chatham, on the 15th
of November, and his landing with military
honours on the evening of the same day. They
also state that nearly all the neighbouring towns
had followed the example of Cadiz in sendi
up Addresses to the King, calling upon him to
dismiss his Ministers, an threatening him, in
case he should persist in retaining them, with the
loss of public affection. The real purport of
these Addresses has since been amply illustrated
by the attitude of defiance assumed by Cadiz,
Seville, and almost all the towns and cities
in Andalusia. Hatred towards the Ministers has
been turned into disobedience towards the King,
and their pretended regard for the integrity of the
Constitution has become an open violation of all
that it sanctions. The Portuguese Cortes seem
to have taken the care of completing the-revolu-
tion out of the hands of the multitude. They
have now deprived the King of the effectual

Veto which they had on granted him,'
and have left him only the po‘‘er of stating his
objections to future Legislations, after which he
will be bound to give his sanction without delay,
if these objections should be overruled by the
majority of the Assembly !

The Algemeine Zeitung of the 29th ult. which
arrived last night, contains a long article from
Darmstadt, in which it is asserted that our Sove-
reign has promised to visit that country next year.
—His motives for planning another trip to the
Continent are variously stated. According to
some, his Majesty wishes to become personally
acquainted with several German Princes. Ac-
cording to others, his object is to take the waters
of Pyrmont. Political views are also inter-
mingled with these surmises, and it is wisely
stated that " the presence of the King of Eng-
land on the Continent next year, being an-
nounced in so positive a manner, an inference
may be drawn that the peace of Europe will
probably not be interrupted."—(lbid.)

[THE TIMES.]
The statements from Ireland, by yesterday's
post, present smile fresh details of outrage, vary-
ing from former narratives only in the circum-
stances of time and place, but offering no new
subject of remark in the apparent motives,
principles, or condition of the actors. The
Clonmell Advertiser announces, that notices have
been posted up about the country, threaten-
ing with severe penalties those who pay tithe,
or the arrears of tithe; and that unlawful oaths
have been administered, enjoining the parties to
make seizures of arms, and to keep them in rea-
diness to serve when called upon. The new but
probable fact is also stated, that some of the
smiths' forges have been at work in the repair of
arms for persons not qualified to bear them. In
the letter from Government to a Commandant of
Dublin Yeomanry, authorizing him to make an
augmentation in his corps, there appears a pas-
sage, forbidding, in the name of the Lord Lieu-
tenant, any exclusion from the ranks " on ac-
count of religion." Now here is another absurd
half measure. In the very letter which sanc-
tions an increase of the Yeomanry, the King's
Minister bears testimony to the vicious and
provoking character which has hitherto pre-
vailed in its composition, and yet expects,
by the use of such a force—partial, insolent,
and inflammatory in its very elements—to
make advances towards the pacification of a
people, to which the existence of that Yeo-
manry has always been odious and insulting. It
is not by a puny sentence in a letter, addressed
to the officer of a single corps, that the rooted
prejudice against the Orange spirit of the whole
Yeoman establishment can be overcome or weak-
ened. It appears- by the Limerick Paper of the
sth inst. that a man of the name of Shea was
brought in prisoner, under a military escort,
charged with being one of an armed party, in the
night of the 9th of October, near the Glebe of
Kilbreedy. Three others, described to be ring-
leaders, have been conveyed to Macroone, in the
county of Cork : and their apprehension is said
,o be of importance.

[MORNING CURONICLE.]
The accounts from Spain sent to the Ultra
'apers of France, and the Ministerial Journals
n England, differ materially from those which
persons connected with Spain continue to receive
from that country. The Courier talks of a fac-
tious and turbulent club, equally disclaimed by
all parties in the Cortes, as if it were the people
and government of Spain ; and then, after this
ignorant or base misrepresentation, exclaims—
" Aye, blood, blood enough will flow." " The
Revolutionists are rapidly exchanging words
for deeds." As far as these are predictions
of that sapient Statesman, we have nothing
to do with them ; we leave them to follow
the destiny of his other prophecies, such as that
of the Emperor of Russia's forbearance, and the
general aspect of peace throughout the Continent;
but if they be meant for facts, we are ready to
pronounce that such representations of the state
of Spain must proceed from the grossest igno-
rance, or from the most wilful falsehood. There
has been less blood shed in Spain by the Re-
volutionists, and since the Revolution, than dur-
ing any period of the same extent for fifteen
years past—less, infinitely less, either by ex-
ecution or assassination, than when under the
immediate protection of the Duke of Well-
ington and England, and less than during
any two years in which the legitimate autho-
rity of Ferdinand, in all its terrors and all
its security, was established.—Whatever excesses
are committed by individuals or parties in Spain
are now candidly and openly avowed by the
Cortes and in the public prints, and then re-
peated, with a thousand additional circumstances
of aggravation, by those who pay their court to
legitimacy, by declaiming against the calumnies
of a free press in one column, and propagating
die lies of a fettered one in another. There are
fewer public excesses, fewer private crimes, less
insecurity of person or property under the new than
under the old Government of Spain ; and if there
is still more disposition to the sort of anarchy and
outrage which for many years, we may almost say
ages, have infested that beautiful country, every ra-
tional man must attribute them to the prevalence
of such manners as a bigotted Priesthood and a
tyrannical Government never fail to produce, and
which it is not the nature of things that any
change in the Government, however beneficial,
should at once and suddenly eradicate.

Extract of a Letter from Georgia (America), I
26th Oct.—" We do not expect any decline in
the price of cotton, as it is thought it will be
full one-third less than last year. The rot has
of late made dreadful havoc amongst it, and many
of the planters, who a few weeks ago expected
to make 100 bales, have discovered that they
will not make 50, and others have suffered even
in greater proportion. So deleterious is the
effluvia from the rot, that the negroes in picking
have fallen sick, and some of the planters will
not risk the health of their negroes for the small
quantity of good cotton that can now be
ga-
thered; and the crop of Sea Island cotton will
be atleast one-third less than last year."

N'AVIGITION AC' ti

A BILL
To explain and amend the several Acts for the encouraging
and
increasing of Shipping and Navigation, and to regulate the
Importation of Goods and Merchantlize into Great Britain,
so far as relates to the Countries from whence, and the Ships
in which, such Importation shall be made.
(Concluded from our Paper of Saturday.)
49. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act
contained shall extend or be construed to extend to repeal or
alter any clauseaprovision, or regulation with respect to licences
granted by the Commissioners of Customs, for the importation
of nutmegs, mace, cloves, and cinnamon, contained in an Act
made in the eighth' year of the reign of her Majesty Queen
Anne, among other things, for granting to her Majesty new du-
ties of Excise, and upon several imported commodities ; or in
an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his Majesty King
George the First, intituled, "An Act for preventing Frauds and
Abuses in the public Revenues of Excise, Customs, Stamp
Duties, Post Office, and House INloney ;" or in an Act, made
in the eighth year of the reign of his said Majesty King George
the First, among other things, for preventing clandestine run-
ning of goods, and the danger of infection thereby ; but that all
such clauses, provisions, and regulations, shall remain in force
and effect as if this Act had not bean made.
50. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act
contained shall extend or be construed to extend to repeal or
alter any thing contained in an Act made in the thirty-first year
of the reign of his late Majesty King George the:Third, intituled.
" An At for regulating the Importation and Exportation of
Corn, and the payment of Daty on Foreign Corn imported,
and of the Bounty on British Com exported ;" or in an Act
made in the forty-fourth year of his said late Majesty's reign, in-
tituled, " An Act to regulate the Importation and Exportation
of Corn, and the Bounties and Duties payable thereon; or in an
Act made in the forty-sixth year of his said late Majesty's reign,
intituled, " An Act to permit the interchange of every species
of Grain between Great Britain and Ireland ;" or in an Act
made in the fifty-fifth year of his said late Majesty's reign,
intituled, " An Act to amend the Laws now in force for regu-
lating the Importation of Corn ;" or in any other Act or Acts
in force on or before the
whereby the importation of corn, grain, rice, meal, malt, flour, '
bread or biscuit, is permitted, or regulated.
51. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing in this
Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to alter
or repeal any of the provisions contained in the hereinbefore re-
cited Act, passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the
reign of King Charles the Second, intituled " An Act for pre-
venting Frauds and regulating Abuses in his Majesty's Cus-
toms ; or in an Act passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of
his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled. " An Act
for granting certain Rates on the postage of Letters, to and
from Great Britain, the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius,
and the East Indies, and for making certain regulations re-
specting the Postage of Ship Letters and of Letters ire Great Bri-
tain ;" so far as either of the said recited Acts relate to the im-
portation of goods or merchandize into Great Britain, in any
ship, vessel, or boat appointed and employed for the carriage of
Letters and packets, under the several regulations and restric-
tions prescribed and directed by either of the said recited Acts.
52. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act
contained shall extend or be construed to extend to allow the
importation into Great Britain of fresh herring, fresh cod or
haddock, coal fish, gull fish, or grill fish, or of any ling, her-
ring, cod or pilchard, fresh or salted, dried or bloated, or of
any salmon, eel or congers, or of any sort of fish taken or
caught by, or bought of or received from any foreigner or fo-
reigners, or out of any stranger or strangers bottom, in any
other manner than such importation is permitted or restrained,
under and by virtue of the regulations contained in an Act
made in the fifteenth year of the reign of King Charles the
Second, intituled " An Act for the Encouragement of Trade;"
and in an Act made in the eighteenth year of the reign of
King Charles the Second, intituled " An Act against importing
Cattle from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas, and Fish
taken by Foreigners ;" and in an Act made in the tenth and
eleventh years of the reign of King William the Third, in-
tituled " An Act for making Billingsgate a free market for the
Sale of Fish ;" and in an Act made in the first year .of the
reign of King. George the First, intituled " An Act for the
better preventing fresh Fish taken by Foreigners being im-
ported into this Kingdom, and for the preservation of the Fry
of Fish, and for the giving leave to import Lobsters and Tur-
bots iiti Foreign Bottoms, and for the better preservation of
Salmon within several Rivers in that part of this Kingdom
called England ;" or in any other Act or Acts relating to the
importation of fish into Great Britain.
53. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act
contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to repeal or
alter so much of the tirlitl last-recited Act of the first year of
the reign of King George the First, whereby it is enacted, that
it shall and may be lawful for any person whatsoever, as well
Foreigners as British, freely to import, bring into and sell in
the kingdom of Great Britain, in any ship or vessel whatso-
ever, any quantity of lobsters or turbots, whether they be of
Foreign or British catching.
54. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act
contained shall extend or be construed to extend, to repeal or
alter any of the provisions contained in an Act passed in the
ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the
Third, intituled, " An Act to permit the free importation of
certain raw hides and skins from Ireland and the British Plan-
tations in America for a limited time ; and for taking off the
duties upon sealskins tanned or tawed in this kingdom, and for
granting another duty in lieu thereof; for indemnifying all per-
sons with respect Ito advising or executing any of his Majesty's
Orders in Council prohibiting the importation of raw hides,
horns and hoofs of infected cattle, and to authorise the prohibi-
tion of the importation of such hides, horns and hoofs for the
future," by which his Majesty is authorised from time to time,
by Proclamation or Order in Council, to prohibit generally, or
from any particular country, the importation into Great Britain
of any hides or skins, horns or hoofs, or any other part of any
cattle or beast, for such time or times, and under such regula-
tions, as his Majesty shall judge most expedient and effectual
to prevent any contagious distemper from being brought into
the kingdom.
55. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act
contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to repeal or
alter any of the provisions contained in an Act passed in the
thirty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty :King George
the Third, for allowing the importation of quercitron or black
oak bark, when the price of oak bark shall be under the prices
mentioned in an Act of the twelfth year of his said Majesty's
reign, for encouraging the manufacture of leather.
56. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act
contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to alter, re-
peal, or in any way affect the payment of any duties payable by
law to the several Companies of Merchants of England, com-
monly called or known by the name of the Levant Company,
or the Turkey Company, and the Russia Company ; but that
all such duties shall continue and remain payable in like man-
ner as before the passing of this Act.
57. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act
contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to repeal or
in any wise alter the duties of package, scavage, baillage, or
portage or any other duties payable to the Mayor and Com-
monalty of the citizens of the City of London, or to the Lord
Mayor of the said City for the time being, or to any other city
or town corporate within Great Britain, or any other special
privilege or exemption to which any person or persons, or
body or bodies pfflitic or corporate within Great Britain, is
or are now entitled by law, but the same shall continue as here.
tofore.
53. And be it further enacted, that all goods and merchandize
which shall be imported into Great Britain pursuant to this Act,
and entered for home consumption, and the importers of such
goods and merchandize, shall be subject and liable to the pay.
meat of all such duties of Customs and
ltie Ex
ncise,d and also to all
such conditions, rules, regulations, penas, a forf
relate to the securing the payment of thew aid duties, and as re-
late to the due and regular entry,lading, arehousing, securing,
and delivery of such goods and merchandize, and as relate to the
burthen of the ships or vesselslin whichtand the ports into which,
such goods and merchandize shall be imported, and the pack-
ages in which the same shall be contained ; and all such goods
and merchandize, and the importers thereof, shall in all other
respects not especially provided for by this Act, be subject and
liable to all such rules, regulations, penalties and forfeitures as
any such goods and merchandize, or the importers thereof, are
subject or liable to, under or by virtue of any Act or Acts in
force on or immediately before the said , or
as shall be in force with respect to any such goods or inerchan.
dice, or the importers thereof, at the time of the importation
thereof ; any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any
wise notwithstanding.
59. And be it further enacted, that all penalties and forfei-
tures imposed by this Act, or which shall or may be incurred
for any offence aleinst this Act, shall and maymean be sued fbr, re-
covered, levied, or mitigated by such ways,
as any fine, penalty, or forfeiture against the said Act of the
s, or methos
twelfth year of the reign of Kin, Charles the Second, for the
encouragement and increasing oeshipping and navigation, may
be sued for, recovered, levied, or mitigated under the said re-
cited Act, or any other Act or Acts in force, or as any other
fine, penalty, or forfeiture may be .sued for, recovered, levied,
or mitigated by any law or laws relating to the importation of
goods or merchandize into Great Britain, or by action of debt,
bill, plaint, or information in any of his Majesty 's Courts of
Record, at Westminster, or in the Court of Exchequer in Scot-
land, respectively ; and that one moiety of every such penalty
or forfeiture shall be to his Majesty, his heirs and executors, and