Star.
London, England, 1802-06-14 00:00:00

POOR RATES.

Lord Sucre:sus raid, he had given notice of a
Motion for ave to bring in a Bill to direa Pariffi
Officers to makea return of the total furn of money
railed in each Parilh by Affeffments, under the
name of Poor Rates, in the refpeaive years ending
at Faller ago, t Bot, and ilioz : at what rate In
the pound they were made, and how much of the
money coileaitt was applied for the payment ofi
County Rates. He obferved, that the Poor Rates'
have moft alarmingly increafed within a very few
years, and fence the laft return, and that it was
become by far the greatell tax of any kind exilling
in this or any other country ; and that there could
be no doubt of its amounting to confiderably more
than half the rental of England, during the lafi
two or three 3cars. But, that we might not de-
pend on vaguz aff.xtion, he vriffied that the correa
amount might be known to the Legiflature, and
that it might be fe ioufl v confidered, whether Come
relief cannot be given t the Country, and alfo,
whether the m inagement and railing fuch enor-
mous fums, and alfo the expenditure, without any
thing *Porthy the name of controul, Arnold be en-
tirely left in the prefent incompetent hands. It is
well known th it Parilh Officers are appointed,
whether fit r not, becaufe it is the turn of their
houfe or farm, and that frequently they can nei-
ther read nor write. He did not intend, at pre-
fent, to prop f: any meafure, but limply to obtain
information, oa which Tome meafures might be
founded.
Mr. So AW Lave v I alloslzed that the Rates were
enormoufly high, but he doubted if the prefent
meafure would tend to leffen them. TheOverfeers,
he obferved, had done-more for the Poor during
the late hard years than even Juflice required;
and while men were negleaing their own affairs
to take care of the Poor, no wonder that they
would diftharge their duty with impatience and
relnaance, it they were haraffed over and above I
by Aaslike that propofed at prefent. He wifhed
loch Bills to originate rather in the Corn miuee
above Stairs than in the Houfe. From thefe con-
fiderations, nd the Intends of the Seafook he felt
himfelf bcund •ci oppofe the Motion.
Lord SH ',MELD explained, that the mode he
propofed was much more Pimple than thofe of
1776 and 1786. He was furprized to hear objec-
tions made to obtaining information; that all
agreed it was abfolutely neceffary to do fomething,
and Purely the ground work of the inquiry (hour('
be a corral Ratement of the fum to be rated.—
The Hon. Gentleman had faid it would alarm the
Country ; bat on the contrary, he was of opinion,
that the Country would be highly ratified, be.
caufe itwould be an earneß that Parliament meant
to proceed in that momentous concern: inficad of
alarming the Public he meant to alarm tie Le-
' giflature, and to bring before them the abfolute
neceffity of not fuffering the Country to groan
under fuch an intolerable grievance. It was very
ignorantly fuppofed, that the high price of corn
had made amends to the Farmer for the great in-
creafe of the Poor Areffments that in the greater
part of England it was by no means the cafe: that
he knew large diarias of many pariffies, where
the average Poor Rate amounted to eighteeen
(billings and fivence in the pound on Rack Rents-
and it was well worthy the attention and cottfide;
ration of Statefmen how this unprecedented bur-
then can be lightened, if it were only for the pur-,
I pole of enabling the people better to bear the load
Ninths; taxes unknown 40 man,

Mr. TIIRVIT was convinced, &at to have more
inforniation on the fubjea was highly expedient ;
but he could with it to be procured otherwife than
by Parliamentary interference, which kits an ex-
tremely expenfive method.
Mr. &snow Paid, that the Poor Rates were
produaive of more harm than good to the lower
chilies in England, and only tended to give them
the means of being drunk and idle. He conceived
it was impoffible to fulfil the objet of the prefent
Bill, as all the Pariah Accounts were at piefent
jumbled together. He thought, however, it might
be produaive of good confequences, if a new plan
of keeping the accounts of the money applied to
the ides of the Poor completely dillina, were pre-
vioufly adopted.
Lord SH mints then Paid, he had great fatif-
faaion in obferving that feveral Gentlemen, moll I
competent to the fubjeft, were convinced of the
neceffity of taking it under fait= confideration,
and as the link of the Houfe feemed to be againft
doing any thing at prefent, he thould withdraw his
Motion ; which was agreed to.—The Bill was ac-
cordingly withdrawn.

_
axcuatyza SILLS.
Mr. Timm, adverting to the calculations of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yefierday, rela-
tive to the Ways and Means for the year, expref-
fed his furprife that the arrears of the Income Tax,
upon the credit of which Exchequer Bills had been
already ifued, mould be included among thofe
Ways and Means. • I
Mr. VAIISITTART replied, that as there Exche•
quer Bills were fubjea to a higher interest than'
the funds, there was no probability of their being
applied for within the year.
• Mr. STEELS remarked, that if they were fent
into the Treafury, it was true they would make a
deduCtion from the Confolidated Fund upon which
they were chargeable, but other Exchequer Balls
M might be ed in their place.
Mr. TIERS air profeffed an unwillingnefs to put
any obtlacle in the way of Ministers, he merely
threw out what be Paid as a hint for their confide.
ration. • OIL. _ _ _

Mr. VAINITTAILT Rated the neceffity of giving
more encouragement to our Fatties, in confe-
quince of the Dutch encouraging theirs. He
therefore moved that the Duties impofed this Sef-
ton on Blubber, Train-oil, Seal-oil, and
all Oils made of any animals living in the fea ; as
alto the Duties on all Linen, Yarn, and Flax, im-
ported into Great Britain by the Company trading
to the EMI Indies, do cute and determine.—
Agreed to. He then Moved, that a Duty of
ts. 3d. be laid upon every Ton imported into
Great Britain, containing aso gallons of Blubben.
Agreed to. He then moved that a Duty of stSs.
tod. be laid upon every Ton imported into Great
Britain, containing 250 gallon: of Train-oil, Ate.

SALT.

The Honfe having ref olved itfelf into a Com-
mittee on the Alt relative to the Salt ufed in the
Pilchard Filhery, Mr. N. Van UTTAR? moved—
id That this AS do ceafe and determine." Agreed
to. He then moved—es That 360 pounds of Salt
be allowed for every calk of Pilchards or Shads,
fatted.' —Agreed to. The Report to be received
on Monday.
-aooassumas' PITITION.

The Monte refolved itfelf into a Committee to
confider the report of the Committee relative to
the BookieHers' Petition. Refolutions were pro-
pofed and adopted, the purport of which was, that
the duty of sd. per lb. now chargeable on
of the firli clays, should be reduced to 3d. per
and that the duty of 3d. per lb. now chargeable
on Paper of the third chars, fisould be reduced to
std.—Adjourned to Monday.

LONDON.

MONDAY, JUNE '4.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:

Coafois, orJulimi.-Itodueed 74-
4 Per Cent 371—New 5 per Coot. so:a—Outdo* t to II dif.

PRICE OP STOCKS ON SATURDAY.
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4 per Cent. Siff 1
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Lang Ann. so p. 161 EDO& 'Tickets IA 11.
Imp. Ann. is 146 Coat foe op. ;4

We have received the Pais Papers to the t tth
inftant inclulive. The Moniteur of the nth con-
tains a number of decrees refpeiting the
Oration of the Government of the Italian Repub.
lk anjl alfo the following decrees
" Coal. imported into the coatis of the Ocean,
from Antwerp incluavely, not comprehending la
Somme, &all pay for the ton of twenty-two quits-
Ws, is francs ( las. 6d. aerling), from the en-
trance of the department of la Somme, and from
Rhedon as far as Sables-d'Olonne, as well as in
alLthe ports of the Mediterranean, coals Ihall pay
per ton of twenty-two quintals to francs (Bs. 44.)
in all the other ports the duty null be 8 francs
(6s. Bd.).
The Afswiessr annonees the appointment of Ge-
neral ANDRICISSI to be Antbaffador to this coml.
try, and at the fame time that of M. Orr° to be
Minifter to the United States of America. Gen.
Viat. is appointed French Plenipotentiary to the
Order and Ifland of Malta. General VIAL was of
the Army of Italy, ferved in Egypt, was at the
taking of Malta, and feems very proper to watat
over the saansity of that Oland on the part of the
French !

The Merchants of Havre have petitioned the
Government againft the regulations eftablithed by
General Lacisac at St. Domingo, with refpea to
importation duties. They fay that the meafure
would be totally ruinous to their commerce with
the colony.
The Matiteur contains a great number of letters
from the different departments, Rating that the
oiganifation of the religious eit*blithmeut, agreea-

blito the Concordat, proceeds with great difpatch,
and to the molt perfea fatisfaaion both of Proteil
tants and Catholics.

We do not find any thing faid of any forcible in.
terference on the part of the French Government
in ehe affair of Etruria. Perhaps a Refcript from
Paris would be as effeaual as an artily.
The French Funds are 54 f. go c.
HAMBURGH MAIL.

By this channel we have received the following
important communications:
STOCIINOL/19 May a a.—This morning arrived
an exprefi from our Minifter in London, Eaton
So Lvaa IljeLll, with the Englith Ratification of the
Ad of Acceffion to the Convention of June 17.
tBor, figned at St. Peteriburg, March 30, tar:.
It appears, that the re-eftablithment of the goad
underftanding between the two Powers bad expe•
rienced Tome difficulties, arifing from the befit:-
tion of the Engliffi Government to give a fatiscke.
tory anfwer to•the reprefentations, refpeding ea.
rious indemnifications. After long debates, how.
ever, the Englifh Government having declared it-
felf ready to region immediately the greateft pate
of the Swediih property, whether captured or
embargoed, and having given an affurance that
all the remaining claims mould be judged with
the ftrifteft exadnefs and impartiality, the Rati.
fications were exchanged on the a ath of this month.
Already on the 6th, before the RatificatiOn of the
King of ENGLAND had arrived, a packet was dil
patched to the Weft Indies, with orders from the
Englills Government for the reftitution of the
Mod St. Bartholomew, and for taking off the
embargo on Swediffi property in that quarter;
the !hip TRITON, belonging to the Wen India
Company, and the Van vs, had been already
declared free, and indemnification for the loa
fuftained &need. It is prefumed that the
Commercial Treaty of r 661 will be reviled and
amended; in conformity to the change in cir.
enmflances in thefe latter times; and the difputed
points will be cleared up and fated. With refped
to the convoys taken in 1798. there is good rearms
to expel from the laft anfwer of the Britifh Ml.
niter, that this bufinefs, though definitively so
judged, will be again taken up after the exchange
oldie ratifications, and that, inftead of being jot.
dicially treated, it will be arranged by &red Da
gociations between the two Courts. This is the
outline of the late prpceedings, which afford the
molt pleating hopes of the fincere &firs of his
BRITANNIC MaJeSTY, to confirm tad firengthen
the friendfhip and mutual confidence which have
been fo happily revived. ,

There will be a Levee at St. James' on Wed.
aefday, next, and a drawing room on Thurfday.
blonfieur COTIIIIIIIeT MOIITSILIT, deputed by
the Farr Cousin. tapeegociate a Commercial
Treaty with this Country, had his firft interview
with Lord HAWltillUltY on Saturday, the refult
of which, we underftand, proved highly fatisfaa
t
On Saturday General Lord HUTeNIUSOU Artie*
ed at Dover from France.

, Governor jonarrouli, the Governor of Domi.
nica, bas been recalled, and General FULLASTOS
is appointed in his place.
His MAJESTY has appointed a Special Commit
fion for a general Purvey of the Illand of Trinidad;
the Commitfioners nominated are Colonel Fut-
LAITOS, Capt. Samosa. HooD, of the Navy, and
General PICTOI49 who is already on the ifland, as
Governor thereof: the two former will embark
before the end of next month : Captain Hoon will
/mill a broad pendant immediately on his arrival.
The Commiflion is to continue in force for one
year, from the day it is opened on the ifland.
On Wednefday four troops of the 13th Dragoons
marched from Ipfwich for Norwich Barracks.
As molt of the redu&ions of the army are to be
'fated by the 24th of this mouth, the following
particulars,whiels are authentic, may be acceptable.
!'he Life Guards are to be reduced to so men each
troop; the Royal Horfe Guards Blue, to eight
troop and 340 men. Betides the (even Regiments
of M'agoon Guards, there are to remain only
twenty Regiments of Cavalry, namely, from the
t a to the SIR inclufive, except the sth, Tome tune
ago dilbanded. AU Cavalry Regiments, abov,
the a I It, are' to be immediately reduced. On
'Lieutenant from each company of Foot Guards

to be reduced.
Minifters expeit that the bnfinefs of the Honk
of Commons will be finifited by Monday next, the
tft, and in the Hoare of Lords on the Thurfday
following. - On Friday, the 25th, Parliament, Re.
cording to this plan, will be prorogued, and dill
folved on Saturday the 26th. It is very polUble,
however, that the arrangementsrefpeaingeleltions,
a bufinefs which from the many conflicting, fepa-
rate, but not independent intereds, is very difli-
cutt, may retard the diffolution' even could PAP
liamentary affairs be hurried through. It is
thought, however, that though the diffolution
may be protraltedfor a few days beyond the tsth,
it certainly will loon take place.
A paffenger on board an American veffel which
efcaped from Cape Town, gives the molt horrid
accounts of the inveteracy of the Blacks towards
the French army. A whole regiment which was
on its march to be Rationed as picquets for the night,
was furprifed by the negroes, and With the excel)•
tion of fixteen men, was entirely defiroyed.
On Saturday morning two carts took fire on the
road near Iflington, in confequence of being load-
ed with bricks hot from one of the kilns of Scott
and Co. By immediately (hooting the bricks, and
a plentiful application of water being proctocd,
the Guts wog{ fared, though with font damage.