Star.
London, England, 1808-04-12 00:00:00

RUSSIAN PAPERS.

Mr. CANNING laid on the table Copies of the Correspon-
dence between Lord G. L. Gower and his Majesty's Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. BANKES moved for an account of the increase of expen-
diture in public offices since the last return.

COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.
The House, on the motion of the CHANCEL.-
LOR of :he EXCHEQUER, having resolved itself
into a Committee of Supply, Mr. WIIARTON in the'
Chair ;
Mr. FOSTER rose for the purpose of moving the
Annual Grants for

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES IN IRELAND.
He said that as the House was so well acquainted
with the nature of the different items he intended to
move, it would not be necessary for him to offer any
observations. He would be glad in the opportunity
of offering any explanations that were required, and if
there was any head of expence which appeared to be
objectionable, there would be no reluctance, on his
part, to postpone it to another day. He then moved
the following items :

Irish Currency.
Civil Buildings - - £25,000 0 0
Printing of Statutes - . 1,200 0 0
Stationary, &c. for Secretary of State's Office £2,018 0 0 1
For apprehending public Offenders - 2,500 0 0
For supporting Nun-conforming Ministers 9,429 18 0
Certain Expences in the Port of Dublin • 1,047 10 2
Stephen Moore, Esq. Accountant General 940 0 0
John Smart, Esq. Dep. ditto - - 140 0 0
Paul Le I3as, Esq. - • - - - 200 0 0
--. Fontemay, Esq. Chief Clerk of Exports andlmports 400 0 0
Marshall, Esq. Dep. ditto - 200 0 0
George Hatton, Esq. Examinator of Excise - 200 0 0
Samuel Hood - - - 150 0 0
T. Hatton, of the Exchequer Office - - 200 0 0
eloatlabig of Battle-axe Guards - - 740 0 0
Building a Pier at Howth - . - 10,000 00.
Trustees of Linen Manufactures - 21,1100 0 0
Farming Society - - 5,000 0 0
Dublin Society - - - 10,000 0 0
Commissioners for Widening Streets - 10,500 0 o
Protestant Charter Schools .. 23,103 0 0
Foundlin Hospital - - 22,500 0 0
Hibernian Maxine School - - 2.896 0 0
Ditto Military School . - - 4,05; 0 0
Female Orphan and Penitentiary House - 3,758 0 0
Society for Prevention of Crimes - - 1,026 0 0
Westmorland and Lock Hospitals - 11,75$ n 0
House of Industry - 28,797 0 0
Fever Hospital - - - 4,122 .0 0
•
Lying-in Hospital - 2,13613 0 0
to the Royal College of Surgeons for completing
Buildings - - - 5,100 0 0
Licences on the Exportation of Wool - 1,750 13 70
Various other grants, among which were, the Mayno,ol Col-
lege, building and re-building of Churches, expences of working
Royal Gold Mines, &c. were poetpsned.
The Resolutions voting the foregoing sums were
severally agreed to in the Committee; and on the
Speaker's taking the. Chair, ordered to b reported to-
morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Scotch Reads' Bill was read the first time.
The Newry Election Committee were ordered to discontinue
their sit:ings, until again convened by the Speaker's warrant.
The Notary's Rigulation Bill was read the first time.
The second reading of tile Vauxhall Thames Bridge Bill was de- WAYS AND MRANS.
ferred to Wednesday.
The Irish forfeited Recognizance Bill was committed for to- The House resolved itself into a Committee of
morrow. :Ways and Means.
Mr. Alderman COMBE obialced leave to bring it a Bill to The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
render Cbild Stealing a copital felony. rose for the purpose of laying before the Committee
The Iri.h Promissory Note Bill, and the Irish Customs Place ,
Abolition Bill, were read in Committee, and ordered to be re- the Ili ays and Means which would be required to 1
ported to-morrow. meet the expences of the year. He should first be-
Mr. HORNER moved an Address to his Majesty, for an ac- gin by recapitulating the supplies which had been al-
count of the proceedings for regulating fees at the Council Office
ready voted, and then he should enumerate the va-
for Commercial Licences.—Ordered.
Mr. ROSE moved for the Naval Asylum Estimates, which were rious heads, of the Ways and Means that would o
g
ordered, and immediately presented, by the Rev. Mr. Morgan, to make up that supply. The Right Honourable
Secretary to the Institution. , Gentleman here stated the various heads of the navy,
Major PALMER moved that the Petition of Mr. Palmer, late the army, the ordnance, Swedish subsidy, miscella-
Member for Bath, be referred to a Committee of the whole House
on Thursday the 12th of May.—Ordered nexus services, and other objects for which the sup-
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY obtained leave to bring in a Bill ply had been voted, the total of which amounted to
for enforcing the residence of Clergymen and Spiritual Persons £48,653,170, but from which was to be deducted
upon their benefices in Ireland. Leave given:. £5,713,566, being the proportion for Ireland.
The Mill was then read a first time—and, on the motion of Sir
The Ways and Means, which were to be proposed.
A. WELLESLEY. that it be read a second time before the holidays,
a short discussion arose between Sir A. Wellesley, the Chancellor in order to cover this supply was, Ist, the alt and
of the Exchequer, and Colonel Barry, on one side; and Mr. Mau- Pension Duties, which he would take in round num-
rice Fitzgerald, and Mr. Perna, on the other—which ending in bens, at three millions. This was about R 2.50,000
Sir A. Wellesley's conceding that the second reading of the Bill
more than it had produced last year, but he should
should be deferred to the first Tuesday after the recess, in order
that it might undergo inspection in Ireland, provided that no take the surplus of the Consolidated Fund at so much
interval was required between the second reading and the core- lower than its actual produce. The advances from
mitment.—Ordered to be read a second time to-morrow fortnight. the Bank amounted to three millions and a half ; the
' Sir A. WELLESLEY moved for leave to bring in aßill to ena-
unappropriated surplus of the Consolidated Fund up
bls the Board of First Fruits in Ireland more effectually to
eed for the building of churches and glebe.houses, and pur- to the sth of April was £726,870. The W
Pnicar Taxes
chase glebe-lands in Ireland.—Read a first time, and ordered to be he should reckon at a rough guess at twenty-one mil-
re al a second time to-morrow. lions, and he thought himself the more warranted in
Mr. ROBERT WARD brought up a List of all Ships and Car- takingi
them at that sum, when it was recollected,
goes proceeded against as prizes, since the month of January,i
1802.—Ordered to be priated. that t e duties to be levied in consequence of the Or-
Mr. R. WARD gave notice, that he should, after the recess, deis in Council were to be added to the produce of the
mire for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the living of Lymon ' war taxes.
Barahant. The Lottery he should reckon at 3.50,0001. which
Mr. CREEVEY gave notice, that after the recess' he would I
move for a more cornet account of the Droits of Admiralty,than 'was somewhat less than it had produced in the last
that heretofore presented. I year, but still as much as he conceived himself en-
Mr. DENT moved for copies of the cases of the appellant and ; titled to take credit for. It would be recollected that
respondent in the cause relative to the ship Etrusce. i tour millions of Exchequer Bills had been funded in
ROYAL NAVAL ASYLUM.
" • thee course of the present year : instead of those, he
Sir C. POLE, in a speech of some length on the I
proposed to issue four millions of other Exchequer
subject of the Royal Naval Asylum, stated various Bills,
towards the Ways and Means of the year. In
abuses which had crept into the appointment of of- addition to this, he should say about eight millions,
ficers, and moved a resolution, that it was the opt,
which he would propose as the Loan, and which was
nion of the House that fit and qualified persons only,
as much as he appraended would be necessary for
such as had served in the Royal Navy, or in the Ma
the service of the present year. When to these sums
rines, should be appointed to offices in that Asylum. i
A I was added the surplus of the Consolidated Fund,
The motion was resisted hy Mr. ROSE,. who
. Tr'9ll"! which he would take at 3,750,0001. it would give a
the previous question. total of 43,676,0001. for the Ways and Means for the
After a debate of some length the House divided,
service of the ye'ar, which gave an excess of 187,0001-
when Mr. Rose's amendment was carried. Ayes 71
. - • . . above the supplies.' Although the surplus of the
-:-Noes 46.
consolidated Aind had been taken at 3,750,0001. yet
On our re-admission, we found Mr. LUSHING- r'4 fact it had 'e
OdeJ '
no
that sum in the course of the
TON moving for certain additional papers ranting I last year by •
no less a sum than 726,8701. By the
to the Etrusco. These were' for copies of aft comes- '
i landing the foni millions of Exchequer Bills, the loan ,
pondence between Sir Home Popham and the Admi- i
rally, from January i, t 787, to Dee: 31, 17W, rat. ! could be raised on 'shore advantageous terms to the '
*ublic, than-if they' had been: left outstanding at an
tive tosleave of absence, or to the ship Etrusco. He i interest of 51. per cent. ' The interest of the four mll-
also moved fora eopy of a record from the Court of
lions of Exchequer Bills, and of the loan for the -year,
King;
's Bench, in an action Paxton aid. otters v. ,
would amount to 750,6001. 'This would be provided
Popham. - , for in the fallowing manner :In the first place, short
This latter motion was objected to by Mr. DENT, 1 annuities had fallen in to the amount of 380,0001.
and it was consented to by Mr. Lushifigton, to let it 1 ;which he would propose to be applied to Ways 'and
hand over until the gallant Captain should be able to
•
attend his duty in the House. • •' ' ' ' means ;o, .had annually been saved 6- 0001 • veil -by inl-
et* i rovemetits in the'management .of the revenue ;
' Another 'paper was ordered, namely, a copy 25,00-01. had been already gained by the anange-
log of the Etrusco on her voyage from Calcutta to
ment which had taken place with iespect to the col:

lection of the Assessed Taxes, and he thought that
by a similar arrangement in the collection of the
stamp deities, a further sum of 20,0001. might be
fined: These sums taken together would make a
"cal 0f 7:0,0001. which exceeds by 20,0001, the sum
t would be necessary to cover the interest of the
Iban, and of the four millions of Exchequer Bills.—
He proposed in some respects to make additions to the
Stamp Duties, but in so doing, he by no means in-
tended to abandon altogether that principle which
had been adopted in the last Session, of suspending
the course of taxation for two or three years, and look-
ing principally to the war taxes. The additional
Stamp Deities which he should propose would, he
trusted, not be considered as burdensome, and would
rather be considered as a regulation and an arrange-
ment than an increase of duties. He should propose
an equalization of the stamp duties on deeds in Scot-
land, by adopting somewhat of the ad valorem prin-
ciple. He wished also to alter the duties now paid
on admission into offices. The present duty was 201.
without regard to the value or amount of the office.
He wished that every office under 601. annually should
be entirely exempted, those from 601. to 1501. to pay
SI. those from 1501. to 3001. to pay 201. and a higher
duty for the admission into offices of greater value.—
He proposed that the duty on indentures of Attornies
and Solicitors, who were to practice in the sup!rior
Courts, should be 1101. and the duties on those in
the inferior Courts, as well as the writers of the sig-
net in Scotland, should be 551. He proposed that
the duty on feoffments should be raised from 11. 10s.
to 31. which was the same as deeds of lease and re-
lease are now liable to. The next duty which he
should propose was, a small duty on those Promissory
Notes which were re-issued. This duty would prin-
cipally affect country bank notes ; and it was not un-
reasonable that the public should in some degree par-
ticipate in the profits which were made by the coun-
try banks. There were many of those notes which
were not payable in London, or in any other place
but that where they were issued, which occasioned a
great deal of inconvenience. He meant therefore to
propose a higher rate of duty on those notes which
were only payable at the place where they were issu-
ed, than upon those which were made payable in
London. He should propose four-pence on a
pound note of the former description, and three-
pence on that of the latter. He thought there might
also be a small additional duty on the transfer of
Stock Shares, which were now made according to
the nominal value. As to law proceedings, they were ,
at present burdened with such high taxes, that he was
' unwilling to charge them with any additional duties;
there were, however, one or two slight additional
duties which he thought they-might bear. He should
propose therefore a duty of one shilling on every ,
summons before a Master in Chancery. As to con-
veyance
of-land, which now bore a duty of thirty
shillings generally, he should propose a duty of '
twenty shillings on every conveyance of land, the
value of which did not exceed 1501. From 1501. to
f',i)ol. he should propose thirty shillings ; from 3001.
to 5001. fifty shillings : and from that upwards, at
a rate not exceeding twenty shillings for every 1001.
After a few general observations, he concluded by
moving his first resolution.
Mr. BIDDULPH rose, not to examine in detail
the new duties mentioned by the Right Honourable
Gentleman, but to throw out his ideas generally, that
it was not necessary for the service of the present year
to impose any new burdens. The surplus of the con-
solidated fund had most considerably increased in the
course of the last year, and even of the last quarter.
It appeared to him that this increase was in no small
degree owing to the manner in which the property
tax upon lands was levied. When the landlord paid
101. per cent, and the tenant seven and a half, it was
not wonderfnl that the revenues of the country should
be very considerable, and the surplus of the consoli-
dated fund constantly increasing. He considged
that a contingent fund might be provided, equal to
'two years interest of the loan, by the sale of certain
parts of the crown lands, and what was called the
hereditary revenues, as well as by better management
of the timber growing on these crown lands, of which
he conceived that near a third was wasted at present.
After a few observation:, from Mr. Davies Giddy,
Mr. Vansittart, and Mr. Huskisson, the first resolu-
lution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was put
and carried.