Star.
London, England, 1802-06-16 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Marquis of Downihire's Eftate Bill was read a fecond
time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.
The Weft India Dock Bill, and the French Portage Bill, were
read a third time, and pafed.
Mr. VA NIIIT T A AT brought up an Account of the Inertzfe and
diminution which had taken place in the Salaries, Free, :111.1
Emoluments of the feveral Public Offices, fince the year 1801.
Ordered to be printed.
The Reports of the (event Committees, on the Marine Mu-
tiny Bill, the Stamp Duty Allowance Gill, the lei& Coff.•e Bill.
the Smuggling Prevention Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the Miners'
Militia Bill, the frith Controverted Mellon Bill, and the frith
Parliament Houk Bill, were brought up and agreed to, and the
Bills ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
The Sac TTTTTT at WAX moved the confideration of the
amendments made by the Lords in the nigh& Militia Bill.*
Several of thole amendments were agreed to, and others were
r, I,fteel : and, upon the motion of the Secretary at War, a Com-
mittee was ap n"-,ted to draw up the rcafons which induced the
Houk to re.ufe the adoption o ee • /On of the amendments, in
order that thole rcafons might be communicated to the Lords.
The Report of the Committee °tithe Laud Tax Redemption
twiner eanlidered, and atter a thort cooverlation be-
tween Mr. S. Lefevre and Mr. Vanuttart, the Bill was ordered
to be read a third time to-morrow.
The Houk In Committees went through the Innkeepers' Al-
lowance Bill, the frith Chancellor's Salary Bill, the Irifh 6 per
Cent. Duties 8111, the Excife Duty Bill, and the Torte' t tree
port Bill. The. Reports were ordered tube received to-morrow,
'l•he Deer Stc-zling Prevention Bill, the Exchequer Loan'Bill,
the Poft Horfe Duty Bill, the lat Bank Certifinte Bill, the
lIIc of Man Trade Bill, the Natior.al Debt Bill, and the Illegal
Lotteri,a4t:ll, were frecrally read a fecond time and commit-
ted for to-morrow.
7be Foreign Offence Bill, and the Controverted Election
Ballot Mg were read a third time and paired,
toed GLINAGRVIIK brought up a Statements of the Proceed-
ings of the Conuniffioners for the Sale of she Land Tax. Or-
dered to lie on the table, and to he orbited.
Mr. VAN Sl7 TA ai brought in a Bill to atthorife the ufe of a
DM Hydrometer by Excite Officers; a Bill for alt: ring the Du-
t;es on Oil Ike.; a 1,3111 for granting an Annuity to Lonl Hutzh-
in fon ; aGllforextendhtgtheproviGonsoftheSouthernWhale
Fifht I y Act ; and a 13;11 for altering the Duties nn Paper and
Pallehoard : there Bills were all read a firft time and ordered to
be lead a fecund t;me to:morrow. _ _

The Houk nn the Wilt Lottery Bill, refolvtd that proviBo,,,
&mild be made to enaLle the Conrutilinners of the Treafury
Fne Ind to retell* to the enmraitlic.ere of the kith Treafrry,
.3r,0.0cr1. as the Frolics of the I.olteny.

StALT DUTIES.
Mr. iSTE RN, adverting to the additional du-
ties on Malt, impofed by the Aft of this Seflion,
called the attention of the Honk to the manner
in which that Aft was executed in feveral parts
of the country, where circumstances of the molt
fevere oppreffion have been known to take place,
owing, as he underitood, to a very extraordinary
conitruftion of the word " malt-making," in the
late ASR ; a word, which, according to the con-
yeeption of the country excifemen, rendered all per-
fiMs fubjea to nightly eifits—to having their
houfes fearched, and to other provifions of the
excife laws, who fhould conttaft with malt fters to
have their barley converted into malt, even though
for their own private ufe. This he confidered a
very singular and unjull interpretation of the Aft
alluded to, as fome people in the country were
as much in the habit of fending their barley to
the maltfters to be converted into malt, as they
were of fending their corn to the mills to beground.
A an inftance of the authority affumed by the
excifemen, he mentioned that very lately one of
them came to his houfe, and demanded his key, s
to (catch for malt, which he denied, and upon
afking the authority for fuch a demand, the Ex-
cifentan quoted this Aft ; he (Mr. %V.) wrote im-
mediately to the Secretary of the Board of Excife
to complain of this proceeding ; and though he
wrote a fecund time, he received no anfwer, but
underflood from the Surveyor of the diftrkt, that
the Officer was direfted to perfift in his purpofe
and praCtice, for he Allred the Houk that Inch
was the general praftice in his part of the country,
and that his was the cafe of many other perfons.
It was, therefore, he brought the bufinefs before
the Houle, in order that Minilters fhould have an
opportunity of explaining, as otherwife he fliould
feel it his duty to move for leave to bring in a Bill
to explain the Aft alluded to.
MT. VAN SITTA ItT thought it would be rather too
late in the feffion to bring in a Bill of the nature
announced by the Hon. Member. In the mean
time he wifhed to obferve, that it never was the
intention of the framers of the Bill,alledged to have
been harfhly executed, that fuch inconvenience
fhould refult from it to any clafs of the people as
that defcribed by the Hon. Gentleman; and he was
fare nothing could be further from the with of Go-
vernment. If, therefore, the Hon. Gentleman
would make application to the Board of Treafury
or Ex,cife, he had no doubt but ample juftice would•
be done. He thought it fair, however, to remark,
that it was not unreafonable on the part of the Ex-
cifemen, at a time that additional duties were im-
poled, to ufe increafed vigilance to prevent the
Maltfters from fecreting their flock ; yet it mull
be a fubjea of regret, if any feverity fhould be prac-
tiled, and in fuch cafe any complainant might be
certain of receiving complete fatisfaaion.
Mr.S.I.AFSVRE declared that he felt much plea-
lure in the fentiments delivered by the Hon. Gen-
tleman who (poke laft ; adding, that he had good
realm to fufpeft the Maltfters were fometimes in
the habit of fending their flock from their malt-
houfes to be concealed elfewhere. _ _

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Mr. Vairsivrarr replied, that orders had been
given to all Officers employed under the Aft to '
eiecute their duty with the utmolt lenity, and to
give every fair Waal= to thofe who might be
unjualy affeired.
bit.. WESTERN faid, he did not know what or-
ders had been given, but he had certainly applied
to the Commiffioners, and bad received no anfwer,
only he had learnt that the Supervifor had received
orders to proceed againa him.
The CHANCELLOR of the Excuzilyaz faid, that
the more rigorous arovifions of the Excite Laws
were never intended to be enforced but when
there was good ground to futpea fraud, and there
was much reafon on the occafion of a duty fuch
as that alluded to in the prefent hillance, to point
out to the revenue officers the neceffity of waive
precaution. He was forry, however, that any in-
convenience had been fuffered, and he trolled that
no provocation for a fimilar complaint would oc-
cur again. He allured the Houfe and the Hon.
Gentleman, that when the Bill referred to was
enaeted, the molt precife and pofitive orders were
iffued by the Board of Treafury, that it thould be
executed with the utmolt lenity and indulgence,
and he fincerely lamented that any deviation from
thole orders Ihould have taken place.
IRISH MILITIA.
Mr. WICKHAM Rated, that he waited until that
hour (fix o'clock) in expeeation of the Right
Hon. Gentleman's pretence, who called the atten-
tion of the Houle to this fubjeft yellerday. He
then moved a Refolution—" that the Chairman
Ihould apply for leave to bring a Bill to authorize
j and render valid, the ditcharge of certain Militia-
men in Ireland."—Leaveligranted
Mr. WICK HAM gave notice, that he would To.
morrow move the Houle to refolve itfelf into a
Committee, to confider the means of reimburfing
fuch counties or places in Ireland, as may have
fuffered any lots by the difcharge of certain Militia-
men, mipeCting which doubts have been enter-
tained. ELECTION BALLOT BILL.
The third reading of the Elation Ballot Bill
was oppoled by
Mr. ELIOT as an unneceffary innovation and
encroachment on the Grenville Ad, and 'as ten-
ding to create delay initead of producing difpateh,
by rendering it more difficult to find enough of
Members to form the Committees. •
Mr. BR ACI:i laid, that in the ablence of the
Mover he would undertake to defend the Bill.—
As to its being an innovation on the Grenville Aft,
though that Bill allowed more than one Commit-
tee in one day, yet this bad never been aced upon,
as it m:ght have interrupted the public hulloes
and Silk b ing the cafe, he conceived the ;indent
' Bill could not be. confidered as an innovation on
the principle of the Grenville Atli it only pre-
vented the rifle of an improper fufpenfion of public
butinefs.
' Mr. BAN K2S faid, he was not at all concerned
about the fuccefs of this Bill, as it appeared to
him of that nugatory kind which do neither good
nor harm; but if the quellion was put, he Should
vote againft it, as altogether unneceffary.

I.ONDON.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 36.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK t
Confols, for July 75—
Reduced 721-4 per Cent. 87—New 5 per Cent. to3l---
Onutinns ol diE
PRICE OF STOCKS T EsT FRISKY.
Bank Stock 183 Imp. 3 per Cent. 701 71
3 per Cent. Red. 711 Imp. Ann. la t-t 6
4 per Cent. 871 1s kith 5 per Cents. 991
5 per Cent. 1031 t 07.1 tO3l Ening. Bills par is. pr. Is. M.
Long Ann. so 9-161 Omnium zit # t I dii.
Long Ann. Engliti Tickets x7l. 71.
Short Ann. 4 1546 3 Conf. for op: 741 1 / 1
COURSE. OF EXCHANGE.
Amfterdam, to 17 oU. Cadiz 351 effedt. I Genna 47
Ditto, at light 13 Madrid 34 paper I.ilbon 6-1
Rotterdam, so a U. Ditto 361 eflea. Oporto 6-i
Hamhurgh 33 4si U. Bilboa 36 Palermo yo
Altona 33 S 21 U. Leirhorn St pence'', r
Cadiz 34 in paper Naples 44 Dublin P.
Paris, t day's date, 23 is—Ditto 2 tlf. 24 Bs,.
Bourdeaur - a VC 14 1 liv.
Venice, 591 Livres Picoli Effeetivi per IL Rai

This morning a mail arrived from Hamburgh.
The Britifh merchants in that city had a grand
fete on his MAJESTY'S birth-day, in honour of the
peace. Particulars to-morrow.
This morning we received Paris Journals of the
13th. They bring the official details of the fur-
render of Toussmtvr, announced in the Telvgra-

phic Difpatch, which we laid before our Readers
of yefterday. This is the moil important intelli-
gence which the French Journals have fnrni(hed
for fome time ; and to every perfon intereaed in
Colonial Property extremely fo.
The Paris Papers alfo mention the occupation
of the Morea by French troops, in execution of a
plan for the partition of Turkey ; but this report
requires confirmation.
The French Funds are SS f. 70 c.
ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO.