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what v1P1.6110 di% JIMA++ of NB year, he onfor-
innately for hie conk, arnithed abundant materials
kV IA.,:41.11111116111111am • h bis ttatensest, on Fridsy,
of the fonolklweiett Weft and Means of the year, he
difklitillied. ettriffign 'of thieving blame on the
Rtglg 110A0dribir Genital:ad his predeceffor' oho
'Voisin+ no,rociro...liad. he .been inclined to do Co, he
viroidosot homely*" ftVfnity into the details, i.em
by Itent, her hate inemiosed barely the grofs fun: of
filtoillthine of tirears, and live left the. Made to
for!jijkolro conglakits on it. He certainly could
' noiMlPoe lat-Predectarr for not providing for the
faenekessol:swelswisitilndla Company, as he could
not too itertahrthoe k was due at the time ; but he
=N TAO:lfeet, that it would have been
in th courfe of the prefeat year, and he
tailiztfilsettla now in (eying, that he thpughtit
ry. this Sefton, to propofe to Es
lihrs mutest Al that fam. In what he Aid
forntee.ottafien, he hikd omitted to (ate nue?
the' :Weirs of laid mar, becaufe he really
no attack upon his predecefor ; but if the
en oppoute to him were determined to make 1
nr.
'all Mask fiedikellaiwrev for the phrpofb of defestilon.,
thokerwer lifisillisves bandit hisshrty to meet dal
on their own grsesd, and Into fosse of the MN
soitisit.epoiaioeitwoprovltted foe on the sth of Jade-
the
a/1h tOrlileittehe amooot of the charges on them
gad alfeta Is remained to defray them. He
this het tba-fpllooring delitienck • _
avaratforesot •. -
WO ' lOW lagirertAid fir

. °filed, -_ - at any fir.
to the public **real Rata tsf---ChltoMie—lhaild
was convinced, that if the fame duty was to hats
Eft-
en to the lot of his predate or, he would have
found M meeffitry tw have.ldene the (aloe- He
bed, however, the finitfatliea el theist, that the
ecipences_ of thefe fubfidies wig not likely to occer
waits ; and- that the war, if it &mild coating* for
if iengen or a ihorler -period. would be concluded
eats equal 'ignore :bet whitest she• fame expose*
The. ciliation ow Which he west. were ebofe *lea
be fouled wade up before him, for *cuffs of the
Late Wielders, and in the flateinent he Made, he
gm deem as he feund them. He was mete&
fugly happy in this, as he flould be on every elbir
bretuon, to do julliceto the merit of his pawleeellw;
and' he was free to declare that the (Tikes be adopt.
ad, of the war taw, was produeliee of theVoilist
advantage to the country. In anfwer to tritot vas
fail by his Hoe. Friend (Mr. Francis) who upload
the debate or tonverfaitinn, be would maintain that
the Property Tax was -more fair and equitable thin
the income, the affeffed, or any other of she taxes
of the war. A former Miniller, now a Member id
the other Houle of Parliament (Lord Sidnsouth) who
found 'Anita under the neceffity of reviving the,
ever taxes, was alfo compelled to mortgage the ra-
names of the war taxes for nine years, to pay the
swincimil and intereft of the funs before arifing from
the Inearne Tax, which proceeding laid the ground of
*hat on property. which he found it his duty to con-
tinue and increafe. Though he did not then fee the
lion. Gentleman (Mr. Francis) who made feveral
objetlions to the exemptions, as now propofed, to the
Property Tax, in his place, he thought it right to
Mate, that all the difficulties he mentioned were rather
retrofpedive than profpeftive. The mode now pro-
pofed would remove theft exemptions, which afford-
hd the rental difficulties ; at the fame time that it
retained fuch as were juft and equitable on the face
of them. The annuities, he thought, hada particular
.claim to exemption', as to ufe the Honourable Geri-
Merman's own phrafe, it was net in their power to
make themfelves whole again. The Honourable
Gentleman warned him not to be deluded by the ap-
parent affluence which was teen in the metropolis.
The admonition he thought on this occafion needlefs,
as the plan he propoied would put thofe who could
not make themfelves whole again, on an equal foot-
ing with the opulent, who might have means of doing
1 fn ; and prevent the tax from falling dead upon a
1. fixed and moderate income. Perfons of that
dcfcription, squid be entitled to the re-payment of
the charge ; ald when the Bill was brought in, it
would be found, that the utmoß facility would be
given for its immediate recovery, and without ex-
pence or tors of time, to the party applying for the
exemption. All that would be neceffary, was to
produce the deeds or will, under which an annuity
was held, to the Collellor of Teaes,_ or going before
a Magiftrate, and obtaining a certificate, to be car.
Tied Loehr 'fax Office, where the party would receive
hack his exemption. The next objea of exemption
was the fmall trades-people. People in large dealings
might, by induftry, or extending their buisnefs, make
themfelves whole again ; but the cafe was different
with the (mall dealer, whole indußry was exhaufled,
and could not, by any exertion'. be rendered more
prodn&ive. Upon the whole, it was apparent, that
the fifiem would go on much better. by getting rid
of theft complicated enquiries, which were now tw.
ceffary in many cafes of exemption, and always
tended greatly to en.i)..rrat's the CommiGioners. Nut
!icing the Honourable Gentleman who commenced
the debate then in his place, he Ihould not trouble
the Houle moth on what was raid relating to the
finking fond, and the paymcnt in Ipecie by the Bank
(.11r. frond:, itill Of he was fag; ns this, came is, and
refused LI feat en the (ytofitiow .find.) The Noble
1

Lord then Paid, that at the Honourable Gentlen.,
was now prefent, he lhould fairly obferve, that he
did not think the profperity of the country fo hews'
**this reltrittion of payment, as without it. He
./salieved that he. thought rather better of the profpe-
rou4 Rate of the-country, than teemed to be the opi.
pion of his Hon. Friend; and he could not affirnilate
affluence which pervaded the metropolis, to
ifs, thing like the tranlient glare of profperity wbiah
attended tlin MiAitlippi fcherne in France. He was not
prepared at prefent to propofe to the Houle a repeal
of the reltrietion on the Bank; but he maid alTure
them, that in every tranfaelion sod intercourfe
between them and the Government, care would .be
taken that the latter would never lore light of the
demands being paid in Specie, and that the refirie-
don fhtmld not continue one month, or one week,
.beyond the time that it may be thought neeefary to
retinal. He could not agree with his Honourable
Friend, in• thinking -drat no great benefit was derived
frowatbe operations of the Sinking Fund, in keeping
the Fends fo high as 601. ; as, by fo doing. he felt a
rent advantage in the difchaNle of his duty, in
railing the neceffary (upplies, and was convinced that
it *could be felt equally advantageous in all feign
bras, He could woe content to apply am of the
Sinking Fund now to defesy the expences of the cur-
rent year; as be, u irell, be hoped, as all the Gets.
doses who heard him, milk expel to enjoy their
NU income, and the benefits of their dation, in thirty
or forty years hence, which capitation would be
foiled, if the Sinking Xtind were soy diverted from
porptifes for which it was originally defigned,
tly of diets eandderations, flub an appli.
cabs ff It at this titir. wpuld,.in his opinion. be a
breach of the public faith, pledged for its application
to the ektinition of the public debt, at the time
that the food was indituted. It was a proper regard
to *rinCiple of public faith, which gave this coon
try Infest an advantage over ill others; ethiclh,
throe every preserved its cre4it nnimpaited;
and w 'cupid enable it to pteferve its immenfe
refources, UnTnifiaired and untainted, upOn any emer-
gency which may hereafter slice. He knew, and he
fat it with pecoliar concern, that the burdens he
proprifed troW fall heavily on the People ; but be
had the cortfolation to think, that they would fall
ualty; and, when the Bill came in; he allured the
kfaufe thkt he Mould be found perfectly ready to
agree to any Ifitberesemptions that may be pro-
pofed. which were likely to have an eafy and benefi-
cial effee.
Lord CASTLEREAGH rote to exprefs his con-
currence frith the gentinl principle on which the pro.
pofed t axes vrere founded. His adherence to the manly
principle of railing as ninth of the Supplies as poffible
within the year, entitled the Noble Lord, in his opi-
nion, to the thanks of the Houle and of the Country.
He-then went over ibe Stine ground that had been
previoufly occupied nn the flibjeet of the deficiencies
i of lad year, contending that the Noble Lord bad laid
a ground of attack that might be tiled at a future
period againt hinifelf. He then proceeded to Mite,
that the -Noble Lord, in bringing forward the Ways
and Meat,, before the Edinsates for Military Service
won before the Hopfs, had, in his opinion, sided in
a .fariallet: unknowil fines the Revolution. It was a
princirdewhich &mild never be 101 l fight of, that en
Unbent Mould be impofed till the rearms on which
thy-, were founded were fully afeertaioed. This doe.
kilt% baltipported by a quotation from HatfelPs Pre.
eedents,mid contended, that it bad never before been
denarted from to the fame extent as in the prefent in
Ranee, and in o t cafe without Specific reafons being,
affigned tor loch a departure. The fellem of War
Taxes, indeed, In fq trenched upon this principle,
inafinuch as they were founded upon the prefumptioe
that the war would continue far a certain period,
while peace might enfue before that period had;
elapfed ; but in this inßanee, the Noble Lord pro.{
seeded upon his own ileum alone, and not on nisi
aeons prefuniptive grounds exhibited to the Hook.
The Ways and Means brought forward were ens-1
tirely foonded on the military climates of lak
rear, and the Noble Lord had found, that the new
I
effeeive fyliern, which was in contemplation' would'
prove as burdenfome as that which *as to be loon
exploded. But it might fo happen, that five mil-i
lions of the propofed Ways and 'Means might not'
be required under the new fylem ; and, in that,
cafe, the public would have to pay intereft for a
lam not demanded for national purpofes. Again,
&fluid the loan prove infuffieient for the expences
Government, and a new loan become necefary. would
not the Contra, ors for the prefent Loan feel a fevers'
difappointment, and have teafon to complain ? The
Noble Lord could not conceive that any particular ne.
ceffity exiled for bringing forwa rd the Wa y s a nd Menflf
thu. precipitately, without previoufly laying before
the Houfe the climates on the principal feature of
expenditure. namely, thole of the army for the year;
for on looking to the papers laid on the table, there
was no appearance of pecuniary prefure in the Rate
of the Trealbry, that could call for a proceeding fo
irregular and unprecedented. The Noble Lord next
proceeded to comment on the terms and negntiation
of the loan, from which alto it appeared that the Noble
Lord could plead no preffure in pecuniary affairs, to
warrant his urgency on this occafion, for he had only
wifhed to Ripnlate that the fir( inflalment Should be
paid into the Bank on the r Bth of April. This he con.
ceived, however, would have been an injudicious ar-
rangement; and jolted of accommodating, would
have ratherembarraffed the Contratiors, whey would
in the interim, have no tie on their fubfcrihers. As ;
to the other terms of the Loan, he was ready to ad-
mit they were advantageous, but by no means that
they might not hate been better. But in bringing
forward the Ways and Means, before all the elli•
mates for the expences of the year were before the
Houle, was placing Parliament in a dilemma in
which no Houle of Parliament ever flood Since the
Revolution, and he hoped that Houle would never
again he embarraffed by Such a principle. With re.
fpeet to the deficiencies in Lift year's Ways and
Means, as compared with the climates for which the
Noble Lord Rated in bringing forward his Budget.
that he had to provide in the ettimates of the prefent
year, he obferved, that they were only Such as had
occurred in all former years, and that the Noble
Lord, in his ohjeflions upon this head, was only laying
the ground for condemnations upon bimfelf, on the
opening of the next year's Budget. The Noble Lot cl
concluded by Sketching a very glowing pieure of-the
profperous State to which die country had been railed,
in its commerce, its finances, its force, and its fame,

io every crafter of ths globe, tinder the evfpices of
his Right Hon, Friend now no more. Never, he kid,
was the Government of any country handed neer by
any Wainer to his (nectars in a Rate to highly &tu-
rning in every point of view, as his late Right Hon.
Fr lend had left this country in refigning to his Majef-
ty'sprefent Minikes. This testament he was convinced
was deeply engraved upon the feeling of that I toufe,
and upon the undertlanding of the country (bear
bear!). It was doe to the memory and the eminent
fervices of his Right Honourable Friend, to Rate that
feet on the prefent octillion, and he fincerely cau-
tioned his Maje fly'sprefent Min;Rers, upon whom an
additional relponfibility was ienpreffed by the flou-
t-Ming fituation in which they found the country on
their coming to office, spina Ureters and unneceffary
changes in thole (Ohms eftablinsed by the coafom•
mate wifdoen of his Right Hon. Friend, and under
whkh the nation had attained a pitch of eminence
and glory unparalleled at any former period.
Mr. VANSITTART, in anfwer to that part of
the Noble Lord's fpeech, in which he laid, the &It
depofit of die Loan in the Bank would be at his dif-
pore!. obferyed, that it would mily remain in cufiody
for the future ore of Government ; but, that a (billing
of it mull not be touched, without a Bill of Appropri-
ation, which the Honk had nil! within its controul.
Ht denieclektisaktbn doEtrinv laid down on the an-
thovity-of Hatfell, as quoted by the Noble Lord, (up-
ported his affecting% end kid, that in 1802 there was
a precedent precifely in point in the cafe of the Navy
Supply, which was voted, firft for four months, then
for fix, and then for the remainder of the year, with•
out the Barman's being laid before the Houk, at any
of tbofe times. in adorer to Come arguments, which
had been offered by another Hon, Geotlesnan,'on the
fubjeß of War Taxes and the Sinking Fund, he beg-
ged to Rate the advantages whiCh had accrued to the
country frees dist (yam. The former. fince its fire
adoption, had laved to the country eighteen million,
of debt, and three millions of permanent taxes; and
the Sinking Fund, Alice its adoption, had faired two
, hundred milliont of debt, and eighty millions in taxes.
Mr. ROSE did not intend to offer any oppofirion
to any.of the Taxes propofed by the Noble Lord, in
their progrcfs through the Houk, though he thought
it neceffary to make fome “brervarions upon Come of
them on the prefent occafion. The increafed Tax on
Wine, for 'Mimic., he did not conceive likely to pro-
duce any thing like the firm officiated by the Noble
Lord, in as much as the inereafed Tax now mull
operate in a Rill greater degree, than it had done be-
fore, to decreafe the conlumption. The average of
annual import he reckoned from notes which he had
lath at 250,c030 tons, which produced a revenue of
500,0001. but She drawback to' be allowed on the
average quantity exported. would reduce that rum to
about 3 t6,c001. a very csinfiderable falling off from
the Noble Lord's Ifutetnent. The Tax on Iron, and
Iron Wares, Would, he (aid, have a confiderable ten-
dency to decreak the imports and exports of both.
Our exports in ordinary wares, had decreafed within
the five loft years, one half t and, in the fine
branches, almoft to nothing ; and as a great part
of this iron was imported as a raw material from
Anunica and Sweden, both of whom took back a
confides-able quantity of out manufaeure in iron, be
feared it would much injure our trade. It had been
in the contemplation of his late Right Hon. Friend to
make Britifh Iron the (objet of import ; bat upon the
fulleftenquiry, it was found. that at sets. per ton, the
utmoß extent to be reckoned on, was iso,oool. The
propofed taxes on Appraifements and Raw Materials
he fhould pars over for the preknt ; but the tax on
the coarfer forts of Tea. would, he feared, be molt
feverely felt by a great portion of the poor and induf-
tricots orders of people in every part of the country,
who fince the high taxes laid on Malt and Hops, were
driven to ufe that beverage, not only at morning and
night meals, but even at dinner. With refped to the
tax on Tobacco, he argued, that if it did not leffin
the confumption, it would certainly be produdive ;
but as the original price was but 6d. per lb. the pre-
fent duty, about is. 7d. he queflioned whether the
article would bear the additional 6d. propofed. As a
proof, in general, that increafe of taxes did not al-
ways produce an increafe of annual revenue, he in-
(lanced the year 118 s, when there were new tales to
the amount of 700,0c001. laid on, yet the falling off
from the final amount of the preceding year was a
million. With refpeEt to the very gloomy piaure
which had been drawn of the nate of the country, by
an Honourable Gentleman (Mr. French) he begged
to fay a few words. The Honourable Member had
(poke* in great alarm of the enormous (um railed for
the poor of the country—the fum mired was certain.
ly, he would allow, about five millions, four of which
went for their maintenance, and the remainder for
other purpoles. It was certainly, he would allow, a
growing evil ; and a very great part of this expellee
might be Caved by the vigilance and attention of the
Gentlemen of the counties within their own difirias.
He had written a (mall tuft on the fubjelt, with a
view of calling the attention of Gentlemen to it ; and
had his late Right Hon. Friend lived, it was his pus-
pole to have brought forward fome plan for reform-
ing that fyftem, for he w.ss convinced that means
might be found to employ above one half of the
paupers ufefully, and to find means of providing
more cheaply for the others. He next adverted to
the Sinking Funds, and gave a thou bitten,' of their
adoption and progrefs in this country. The firß was
under Lord Oxford, which, was founded upon the
celebtated South Sea bubble, which burg, and ended
in fmoke. The next was let on foot by Sir Robert
Walpole, which produced about a million, and there
it ended ; but what comparifon would thole itiftences
beat with that inflituted by his late Right Honourable
Friend in r 786, which had produced loch incalculable
benefits to the finances of this country ? The belt
anfwer would be found to his queition, in comparing
the fituation of the country and its finances at the
time when his Right Hon. friend came into office, and
that at which the country was for ever deprived of
his talents. He came into office at the clofe of a
minims and unfuccthful war, when the permanent
taxes of the country were not adequate to pay the in-
tereft of her debt. and when her commerceand reteurces
were funk to the lower} ebb. Under his adminiiiration
that commerce had encoded, and thole refources ins
int h thea;
period,co Jri
c
had
roputrcothhv ce.dtawbs warseotyhoensdi
ora l VI; formerhl
andC h nae,cepun4
srr ra
te
hi die
ulwh Itchiii ;andr
1 our
navy
attained,
that we had taken from more
(hips of every defer'
i the enemy
*ption, than n all the wars in
which this country had been engaged [Lace the Re-

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inelnding the fight of La Hogue, .0 •
Ruffeli and 01 the other naval ttiJmphs of
country r amnitgli theft Helps were one ioindted a
ten of the line. We had taken front the eusep; alto,
their poffeffiens in die Eait liisliet, their colimies•in
the Weft Indies, dellroyed their commerce, and cries.
pled their refouices, in a nir.mner never expetieliced
by them-in any former war ; while oar ma nufaitore4s
our commerce, our potT.llions, our naval thength.,
and the glory of the Bruit name, attained, through-,
out the world a pitch of eminent: and celebrity
paralleled al any former period of our hiflory. Con:
vat:dating the country n fuch a pitch of profperity,
he espreffed his (ncere hopes and that thufe:
Minilters into whole hands the diretStion of its affairs
was now eonfigned. might be able to manajge it.fo as
to furrender to their fuccettas, whenever they thinild
retire from office, in as high a Rate of profperity as
they received it.
Mr. FRANCIS and Lord H. PETTY explained.
Mr. LONG fupported the accuracy of Mr. Pitt's
eltimates.
Mr. JOHNSON expreffed his apprehenfious that
neither the financial eßirnates of the Noble Lord
would be fo productive. nor the expences of the WA(
fo limited as his liatements alledged. He well re-
membe•ed t a former year of the war. i Right
Hon. Genisinw a Noble Peer), h flated-to
the Houle, that, under the aid of the Sinking Fund.
the war might he carried on at an annual ex/pence of
twenty-feven millions, without additional but diens 09
the country ; and yet experience had (hewn, that it
exceeded that etiolate by near I,secr.ty millions. He
obferved, that the debate of this night was for the
moll part a debate of paradoxes ; but the moll ex:
traordinary of them all was the argument of a Right
Hon. Secretary (Mr. Fox), not stow in his place, sia
relpea to the Income Tax, namdy, that the people
would be better pletted- worry tip the inspna to
what he was pleated to call "it's natural limits," and
be taxed ten per cent. at once, than have the charge •
gradually increafed every year • but he believed, it the
Right Hon.. Gentleman had year;
ken this night from
that fide of the Houle where he had been In long in
the habit of maintaining other opinitms. even with the
whole force of his great talents, and all his powers of
el•tquenee, he would find the growth of language
finking under his exertions in ridiculing fuch an
argument coming from any Minitler to whom he
Mould be °pent-ed.
Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON role to expels. his
alloniatment at what had fallen from the Hon. Mem-
ber, in allufion to a declaration made upon a fornmr
occafion by a Noble Relation of Lis, not now prefect
to defend himfell; more efpecially as he racolleeed
that to a timilar isißske of that Hon. Gentleman
upon the very fame ground his Noble Relatioin Wad
given an explanation totally different, end fuck at
he conceived fatisfaeory, and conceive to the Hog.
Gentleman's millake. On the contrary, his NW*
Relation had laid, that if the expences of the war.did
not exceed sy millions a year, that then'he Road be
enabled Rill to continue the redoeion of thl pod*
debt by continuing the annual enntributioa isn the
Sinking Fund, without any additional borthen louse
conntry. But it-was impoffible for hint to fay what
°meld be the limits of expenditure in a afar of frith
indefinite magnitude.
Mr. STURGES BOURNE made no oppofition to
the taxes propofed, but thought one argument of a
Right Honourable Secretary, in refpee to the Pro-
perty Tax, rather extraordinary, and the Very re-
verfe of what he always conceived to be that Right
Hon. Gentleman's opinion of that tax. He had always
endertiood him to have been avert, to the tax alto-
gether ; and thought he recollected him to have called
it an intieifitiorary tax, or fume loch gentle epithet.—
He noderflood him lag year as having violently op..
poled a (mall increafe of the tax ; but never till this
night, did he under Rand the Right Hon. Gentleman',
objeition to that increafe, merely beeaufe it was too
fmall ; or to the Tax itfelf, only becatsfe it was not
doubled in the firtt Wiener, in order thus to render
it more acceptable to the people.—(lfear, hear, hurl
—loud &hiker.)
Mr. HUSKISSON again contended that his Rate-
meat was come, in mentioning thit one million of
the fum referred to in the queftion had been expended
in the Navy Service for the year tflo6.
Mr. WARD begged the Noble Chancellor of the
rikehequer to explain one exprettion in his Ratement,
,on a former night, refpeeing the Subfidiary Treaty,
which he Rated to be fo complex and indefinite, as
not to afford the means of afcertaining its extent, or
,tehetber the million, which he claimed as an meat
'on that account, was fufficient. Mr. Ward declared.
that in hi, mind, nothing could be more clear sad
fimple than the terms of the Treaty. It Itipulated
to allow to our Allies :al. tot. per man, for every
man brought into the field, and Britifh pay from the
time they quitted their own frontier till they returned
to the fame. Poffibly the Noble Lord's difficulty
arofe from his not being able to efcertain what num•
bars had returned to their own frontier ; or that the
Commiffaries who, ask was nipulated, fhould attend
and afcertain the number of troops in the field, had
not to attended; otherwife he could not underhand
where the difficulty lay.
The CJIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
anfwered, that the terms as expreffed in the '!retry
did not afford the means of a clear elucidation.
Mr. BROOKE, agreeably to the notice he had
given on Saturday, rote to oppofe the tax on fugars,
and faid, that on which ever tide of the Houle he
might lit, he Mould always oppofe every tax that ap•
geared to him oppreffive on the commi.•ce of the
country, and fuch he conceived to be that now pro-
poled on fugars; and which, he was convinced, molt
fall on the planter, and not on the confumer ;—for.
from the fir( tax impofed this war, through. all the
fncceffive increafes, and up to the pretent "pill-
tinn, which was to complete a rife of .he dory to 10F.
per cwt. the Gazette price of foga-s had taller), in-
stead of bring railed thereby, fo that the lots fell
wholly upon the planter, who was willing to pay as
this
anyasw
o,,tid pa
other fy fin
übijneel,ite;y more.towardsthe war, but by
means
Mt. VANSfTTART admitted that fometimes,
under the circa:MU:sees of a glutted market, and no
foreign demands for fugars, this was the complexion
which the eireumlfance• of the Lugar trade bore.
li,,wever he pron.ited that Tome inveftigation amid
take place, anchhat he mould move for an Recount
of the average Gazette prices of roger for fione !errs
back, in order to torts an stem ate ellimate of the,
faits. 4. Veen Over:

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was to be added the rum of I opoq,oocs4.
tu Om The goofs would reephO that *a
of MOl4OOOl. (ranted far fablicitasAllefta Amu
as 4 tote of credit; and that it wa only Timm
tft, !attire Of the war, gut no more than sloe Minion
wittlita demanded. On the'eontittitiad'the star
Intiketild, and annther canimagn litetitad, by
fiii eriodwon. ot litistreatiSsi thallan i Mali have
Mt tit* upolitits yeir for a ems to 1 ninth
fittlroS.k4Fil' le. / OfifteisTigenell:iPcArAeddiandUocted
thaLtheltVt the knishes unpieffided lotAiltarde
the fir vlces the LA year, amounted to no lthug him
ersaft 7,445,0b01. I and, wheh the &Ms ohapplied
*OW ep.'sreit Irlth thee unprovided for; the tied
Mlliket'ilf Obtliending arrears would be fekind to
It 4,yg ,0001. excluilve of the Army Estortordt.
tholes, the setkiorit of irbieh 'had not y4r telt* in.
stn making hisoriginal hiternent, and. 6 that
which be was now induced- to make, he had n•
orbit. objed, bur, without any- concealment, to dif:
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Mr. HOLT LEIGH fuggefled the propriety of
awaking tome abatement for Farm hunks, belonging
to the toad order of farmers.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
Teemed to imply a difpntition to confider the fug-
station of the Honourable Gentleman.
Mr. BABINGTON begged 'the Noble Lord to
take into confideration the cafe of thole who had but
a life iotertft in lands, and who could not pay the
propofed tax without finking a part of their capital.
• According to his conception of the propofed tax, it•
appeared that a man who hid 451.-a year permanent
revenue would be entirely exempted, although itiift
annuitant of col. a year would be obliged to pay it.
Mr. VAVISMART übfervcd, that the operation
of the Tax was, in come degree, to commence at
501. a year, and to he railed by a certain gradation,
to tool. when the higheß rate was to begin.
The Refolntions were read, agreed to, and Bills
ordered on the 3d and 7th, op to the 39th inclulive
Some of the refolutions were roil mined.
On•the motion of mr.vANsirr A wr an account
was ordered of the Merage Price of Raw and Ma.
covado Sugar, imported into this country, exclufive
of duties for fix years, ending the sth of January,
3806. Alfo *pother account, with refpea to the
quantity of Pigiron and Mannfailured Iron exported
from this country for the IA ten ?ears.
The committal of the Tortola Free Port Bill wait
on the motion of the CH 4110 E Latta of the Esc N s qy f It,
poßported till the ,7th of April.
The Committee of Ways and Means was fixed for
Wednefday—upon which day Mr.Vansurrae r gave
notice of his intention to move for an iffue of Three
Millions of Exchequer Bills.—Adjourned.
EVEIVIhG STAR.
LONDON.
TUESDAY, APRIL T. ,
PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
Cook& for i=uodoitior, Acc.64l
spew
PRICE OF irroceryarrEßDAy.
3 per Cm. Conf.a..• as. die, par as. dlf.
s per Cent, Navy I 93 . • isigllllTlckets tot.
188.
Imp.* per Cent. , Coe, for we. 6it 6t
The Weft India fleet ;which failed from Portfinotath
• on the 28th January, palled tdadeira the 23d Vallitt-
ary. Sir RICHARD Svaacnaa's fqoadron, coofifting
of feven• fail of the line and two frigates, arrived
'off Madeira on the loth March, having fern the
above fleet to the Southward, and remained off that
Mend on the ratlr ; the day before twenty IA of
'effete were teen from the Eaft end of Madeira—par-
- dollars unknown.
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the Hamburgh Mail, due on Sunday, arrived at'
a late hour loft night. The accounts which it beings
ore of a very different nature from the notice in the
Moseettr, that the French army • was returning se
. France to be put on the peace eflablifhment.
Sweden, it is raid, ii to experience a fate fimilar
that of Naples : the King is to be dethroned, and
his dominions to be partitionedamung bisneighbotaid.
Pruffia, and Denmark. Auftria is to tatta
Sack and the Gallicias, and to be indemnified from
the Turkith Empire ; and leder changes and trod:
Plantations of the MEC sssss ViGH branches, and of
the Duke of Bautiswice's family are silo talked of.
Amid fo many rumours, and after fuch wonderful
changes as have already palled upon Europe, it Would
• be folly to pretend to affert what can cr cannot take
place;, but Tome of thefe arrangements, as far as
they concern Ruffia, are extremely improbable.
Private letters from Holland (late, that the Batavian
Government bad received affurances from the Court
of the Thuilleries, that the Emperor NAPOLION hod
determined to give to Holland the choice either to
have a King at the head of its Government, or to
become a department of France ; and this fulajed, it
is fuppofed, would engage the attentionof the Dutch
i,,egiarture, which had the commencement of its
Barron fixed for this day.
HA SI cll.olli MARCH 25.-IS is confidently afferted
here, on the authoritr of private letters from Berlin,
that the following prnpnfals form a confiderable part
of the negotiations pending between France and
Pruffis. It is intended to obtain the content of the
Emperor of Ruff-it, if poffible, but in cafe that fhould
not be granted, France engages, in conjunction with
Proffitt and her other Allies, to endeavour to effea
Om by force of arrhs. Pruffis to cede 400 more
fquarc league. of its pufteffions, and to receive in lieu
thereof 700, which will cooftit of the following
countries
tn. The Duchy of Mr Alcohol.? Schwerin, whole Sovereign is
to receive Bareuth in exchange, with a proportionate pears's to
make up every deficit.
ed. The Duchy of Meekkoburg &Mita, whole Prince is to be
penSoned for life.
3d The Duchy of Brunfwiek. wlide Sovereign and deleendants,
in diva line, arc to be penfinned; and the Duke bird& permit •
red ro remaid as Sovereign, in his capital, during the remainder of
his life.
4th The whole of Auftrisn Sr!cliA and Inallicia, for which the
'Emperor of A uttria is to he in.l.moifi.d by the Turkifh provinces
of Servb, Boluia, Wallachia, Moldavia, and the whole of Turkith
Dalo:atia.
sth, The King of Sweden to he dethroned, and part of tile do-
minions to be given (If We Emperor Alexander contents to rho
plan of frliatiun) to Neale ; the remainder of the kingdom of
Sweden to Denmark, which on there conditions (hall put Peals
b podefS A Wilaian and Swedifb Pomerania.
ACCotCling•to the fall ad vices from St. Peterfburf,h,
thefe propofals have been rejeOed.
From the fievetburgb f;orreffrotoole!tt of the asti of Iforreb..
The Swedifh army tall remains in Lintenttliti,nnd
his Swelifh MAjellrin Ratzbuir. A•new CO T& of
12,000 %nen his been ordered front the inferior of
Sweden to tom.tet the above troops. On the 23d,
the Adittailt Genesal of the Emperor of Ruffin le.

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out on his retoru to St. Peterfburgh, vie liantbergh
and berlin. •
. All the Swerlifh maritime fortes are to be got ready
for lea immediately. •
The Ruffian army of Referee, made, G 1
Michelfon, remains in the reiichboorhood• of Timer.
pol. The Emperor, Alexander, paling throuAls
Breze, conferred on that General the Qrder Of St.
Andrew. He is silo to be appointed Commander
in Chief of fire Ruffian divifions.
Private letters from Ruffix irtilant,
defcribe the roadi of that couniri,lcso'vered with
artillery, ammunition waggons anshoroops ion the
frontiers an imenettle army is alreatlymalleeled. and
the recrbitintin the interior goes on without inter-
ruptionhe 'aribies that lately returned final Mo-
ravia, Aria, and Bohemia, are kepe,iit•.ryadukeii
to aft. , .
Private letters from Switzerland fay, that a rest
change is expettedila 'the Government ortlit
try, and many believe it will fall•to Prince Murat.—
In the mean time it appears that Hamburgh will.
efcape for the prefents at lean, owing probably
to the powerful protettion of M. Talleyrand, • who
tracing been.„wher.a fugitive, extremely Veil reed'''. II
ed here in general, ood particulatly by Mr. Senator
Schulz, who paid his debts, and teak him into hitt.
honk. retains• a kind. 'of gratitude, which. isthmus
him to favour, thr•eity: Senator Schultlmilirei
lately received frOna him the moll tranquillising' at
furances. General Rapp t, arrived hire frogs Phis.
The French have left Hameln. and marched in two
columns to the Rhine.
, Ea:among, Maacw 18 —(Private leibiticeobnitek
nkated tbrongh the fame channel on agora ',fent'
lately.)-1' I cannot fay much of nor Obildelel *sr'
tion, which remains the fame ; and if we =T WA
appearances, we (hall continue Pruffian: 'The Xing
has ordered the ere Lion of a magnificent Palace.'
in which he intends to tcfide Come months every
year; and tome other great public worts, which had •
been Adpended, are now reamed. A a for Anfpach,
when M. de Nagel arrived; a few days Once, to cede
it to the Bavarian Commiffirtners, blarlbal Been*
done- protefied again'' the affirm to the King of Berl
'aria, and required that it Ihould be ceded td hid!
for the French Emperor, whb would afterwards,
when, he judked,convenient, give it to the King of
Bavaria ; M. de Nagel, in cosfequener. fent a coil.:
tier to Berlin for fre4h infiruaions, which are not yet
come. In the mean time the French are indulging,.
in all kinds of good cheer, which the opPrelTed peOpie'
are forced io provide for them, and for Which, they
in return debauch their .wives and dinghters. There
reigns a general itidigoatitort 'onolifrellee inhabitants,
at feeing diemfelvesdifpofedoflikk;n,bile of goirids..4.'
VlFON4.l,,!4•RCOls,...DrcatlfulAlifitbanceslaititi
eaten place at Triefie between the inhabitants aid the
foreign troops fill remaining in that place. Several
of the (oilier-hare been killed or wounded. 1
From Semlin we learn that the infurgent, Ceerny
George, hi) invested Belgrade, which he has reduced
to-Ahe lath extremities, from hunger.
The French Ambaffador, Rochefouciult, is e !petted
here nest week ; he was atldunich on the I ith March.
Harrnvay Masers 11.-7 The Imperial Trench Ad-
jutant General Rapp arrived at Hameln yelerday,
and gate orders for the evacuation of that fortrefs.•
The Pruffiant have accordingly taken pOffeffion, and•
General Rapp proceeded nn his way to the North of
Get-Many:
Bass. OF THI MaTIIII, MARX!. tB.—Deputations,
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have been feat from Neufchatel to Paris.
The report that Prince' Charles was to pay anrifit
to Berlin requires confirmation.
On the Bth Cardinal Rao and Suite proceeded
on their way to Vienna.
MUNICH, MARCH 13.--Marfhal Berthiey is Rill
here. The divifion of Marital Soult is on its march
from Paffan through Bavaria. Fourteen thoufand of
the divition have arrived at Landfhut, which eyt4
the march of the French army homewards.
AVGSBUROH, MARCH 4.—The head quarters Or
Martha( Nay are Rill here, but will loon break up for
Ulm, in order to make room for the Divifinn of
Idardtal Souar which is on its way from Bavaria.
FRANCKTOITp MARCH *B.-- Marfhal Bernadotte
has been prefented by the Emperor Napoleon with the
royal Palace and domain of Tlielzdyorclin Anfpach.
Cleves and Berg are Paid to be defined foldy for the
Archduke Ferdinand. Very valuable acquifitions
from the galleries and library at Vienna hare been
convc>ed to Paris. .The French troops fill iq Ger-
many are animated at 200,000 men.
BeRLIN•MARCH 22.—0 n the r9th a courierarrived
from Paris, bringing the ratification of Napoleon's
treaty with this Court. The general with and opinion
of all ranks is, that this will be followed by a general
peace.
MADRID, MARCH 4.—According to the lark intcßl
genet from Cadiz, an Englith fleet of totitteefilltips
of the line and fix frigate.s.wai alio 04 that haxhone;
Four French frigates, who withe'd)to have made their
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Yenerday the KING% b6unty was delivered as ufual
on the Monday beidte Eerier, to a tiumiscr of poor
perfons at the "slalom's office, Whitehall.
The towers which ere etieling for the defence of
the coati at Hythe, &c. are going on with continua-
ble alatrity—a numher of cum hands arc to be em-
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*NAUTICAL INTILLICESCL
MAILS TTHlSDAToafilsdill. le. ' 1
. ARC. DOT. - • ' AIM DOL.
Dublin s a Gokunhergh b it
Waterford o s Harnbargh . a . 0
Lifbon p • a Lesswagit Iliad o . 0
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FALMOUTH. MARCH a9.—Arrived his Majefty's brig
ENDEAVOUR, and his Majesty's gun brig &ragmen,
both from Plymouth; Richard, Sutra+. from Gibral-
tar. Sailed his Majeay's (hips SAN Joss's'' Vice
Admiral Sir C COTTON ; VILLA Da PASO,
Patsies GEORGE, Panics.. ROYAL. WAtilnit. AAA*
GONv and Groay, to join the Channel fleet. faired thii
port to-day the Laifbla and Oporto fleets, under convoy
of 1116 Majefty's (hip Ovum, and the brig GANNYT.
Sailed his Majellys (hip Mini's, with a convoy to
the Welk Indies, and the „Prince of Wake pagliatt,
1 Toots, wita mails for Litton.—Wind Eat.. i „A.;
. PONTAMBOUTN; Matte* 31..-Arrived the iamb%
i gun brig froths a- cruise ; Dover Celtic EaR Indianola
and kvoral other outward boaint vadat fiAmillit.
Dowss....Wind &Snip • i,.' ~.-• . :. . - . I.l.ii:t •
DEAL. MAICII 31.-.AeriTed the-Bozo guoleg,
from a cruise, apd brought in with her the Amur
Margarettl,Altin Amfierdans, boond to:tavoiair,
with a cargb of chetifi; ike.detainedlsy the Amboy
in company 'with this brig; and the GALLAIIV.kiti
brig. frtinf a tritize.—Sal&d The Puttee& gat arm'
for the Wore. 'Arrived the Dover Caltk EaR IndU
(trip, from the River, and failed through • for Mill
math. Readin hi the Downs the 'Edger. Utftebto
Antelope, Explofion, Profpero, Exertion, Bold, Gal:
hint; 'and' Detentes Mal -Harmon? Issitffelffie.
Wind Eaftsrly: .: '• , .o thitrid
Y'aelsotrrn ,Maacir 30.--This morning the Beet,
under Admiral Russia, got under weighfgr a eruize
Of the tetek'vrith the following Slips, viz. MUST-
TIC, A4IIIIIIIIII.USSILL ; AOINCOOItrp.AhRYNANY,
Nat/14p 1424 STATELY and DlCTilatind Asia-
.
Lateral . war. Ships in there Roebucl,
AdinirarDouozas, Orpheus frigate, mitcarrier.
Hull, Memos 28.—The Friendfhip, Devise,
from this port, for London, on Sunday fe'onight
&ruck upon the Gunfleet fend, and (hortly after went
down. The Captain and crew Caved themfelvee in
the rigging and tops; in which perftous fituation they
remained from Sunday till Tuerday, when fortu-
nately they .were difcovered and taken out. by the
Vet VA I. frigate. Captain Davies is flail aiad• of
the fatigoe and braces he received ; and the .mate
lies dangeroufly ill, The Hull packet.; F1A1101037
matter, from this port, of and for Newcaftle, with a
valuable cargo of mert;frandize, was taken about nine
o'clock on Saturday morning lag, off Flambro' Head,
by a floop privateer. The Venus, THOMPSON. from
' hence for Whitby, was captured at the fame tittle.: •
• FROM LLOYD'S LIST. '
GRATiltettO, Miami 3rs-Patied by the Johanna, Wilkes,
from Gallipoli ; Anna Marla, Wagner, nod the Mary Ann-. Ja-
cobs, from Saloe ; Louth, ..--fhotia Deela; Maria, MariflinS,
and the Cabinet, tVoodarard, from Leghorn ; Poovldelfee. Leg'
man, from Marvel; Concordia, .-..-1 Vrow 'Ca:harks ' ...-...
*oaths Gnat Wagden, tbeldn, from --BMind the
Chi*** Asui,Drareavr•d sbaDarulffetts,fne•Pvgdnash- ~
stivarrlin.-1-At • Flamotilie Pim Lett from Ste Michael's ;
aaddsona porottles, .7-. m..,,, gl,
.Valcatia—.At Milford. Boat
tafetiont. •.-`•-•7—. fnriel 001113=1"--At Liverpool, Brutus,
Frown blarney ; and Tippoo Salb, —, from Savannah..
At Lando!, Mali; Dyer, from Narfoondland-At Oporto, Ann,
Green, tram Liverpool-At New Orleans, Rover Waite, from
Lissiroi...off Dover, Ann Rost Mary, Taylor, from Foam-
At Scilly, Anna, Francis, from Smyrna; and Sarah Ann. Mallets,
(tun Zante-At Plymouth,' Minerva, Lane, from the River
Plate—ln the Vile, Abrt, Malan. from Charlefton-At Liver-
pool, John (late biz), i--., from Demerara-At Nooks. Cam,
--....., fecal Cantwell-4kt DIMMCIIfI. Geofge, Williams from
London-At Lboalek,Eari at Limerick, ---, from London-
At Hoylake, BetesforiL.-.--s, from the Mediterranean-In
Stangate Creek, Magdalena Beisedlifts, Sables, front Denia-At
Cowes, Mars, Hall, trolls Naples-Az Penitnee, Juno, Malcolm,
from Charialton • and Kappafon Tigertakin, from Zante-.At
Live Tool, Sand: and Elks. Holland, from Savannah; Pilgrim,
Wheelwright, from Georgia; and Juffrow Anna, from Charente
At Scilly, Richard, Smith, from Gibraltar—At Cork, C 110402,
—. from 1 Mimi ; Sad Anna, Hanlon from Leghorn-At
Dublin, Thanes and Sally,--.., from LondOn-At St. Mkhael's,
Vrow Anna, --., from ditto-At Demerara, KEton, Haucifo,
from Liverpool.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.
The Andromiche, for the capture of le Jeune Melanie, July
16; 1803, and le Janie mut, Auguft :4.1803, will be pad at the
Sugar Leaf, on Oettlektrill, on the 7th of April, and recalled a
the bras place the era Monday in every month fur three years.
A dlftriburion far the recapture of the Magdalene of Greenock,
by the Iris, °Rohe: tl, tBO5. will be made on board the kid
adp, on her arrival at any port, and recalled at No. It, Cecil-
&reek
T'iss hired armed cutter Lady Ann, for the detention of th .• I
radtaar, November all. 1800, will be paid on Satuntiv nest. at
11116II.:11610/1 Nina, and recalled every Tudday and Saturday
ter dna pers.
Le Legere, for the capture of a fehoona, Aug .ft ;90800, will
be paid at No. ad, St. Switkin's-Lne, Lombard itreet, every Tuef
day and Friday 1.,r three years.
To the Truk. for the capture of the Shepherdefa, July 21. t 80 a .
and the Jenne Emilie, September 7, ,Seri. a diftrihniion will he
node on board the fold ihlp. at Portfmouth. on Tburfday nett,
and recalled for three years. by Mr. James Moyle, Porthnouth.
To the hired eutterßhoda for the capture of a French gun ',Wel
No. 313, Yebrintsl3, :kr, and the French veffel.la Marie and
Sophie. June s, 1835 ; alto of the Rhoda's bare of Ss gun valets
captared on the 13th of February, 1803, a diftribution will be
msdc'eui board the fold cotter on the 9th of AprU. nnd recalled for
three years by Mr. William Proctor Smith, of Plymouth-Dock.
Copy of a' Letter from on board his Majefty's
(loop Favoutite, dated Gone, on the Coaft of Africa,
February the gth, !Soft ;—s* I am happy to inform
you, that on the 28th of December, 03oe (having'
had previous information of a French privateer lying ~
in Rio Fango River, on this coat) we fell in with, !
and after a cldfe anion of half an hour, captured I
the General Blanchard French brig privateer, of 14
guns and tog. Min 't the Captain, two Officers, and i
i a men were killed,-and so wounded—we fortunately
had no one hurt. The prize, on board of which I I
now am, continued in company with the Favourite
until the 7th of January ; at two in the morning we
perceived three large mails, upon which the Favou-
rite gave chace to them,while I made the bell of my
way with the prize for Gorey-, by Captain Davy's or-
ders. Three days after, !landing in for the land, on
the evening of the loth of January, I obferved a
Orange brig Rending towards me, very rofiiii-aiat,
but having only eight men on board and thirteen
prifoners, and no powder, I immediately made ail fail
from her, the in chase of me, distant about three
miles ; hut from the fuperiority of my failin,, at dufk
in the evening I had the good luck to loft fight of
her, and arrived here on the loth ultimo. I have
neither Peen nor heard of the Favourite since I parted
from her, and as it is a *oath /ince, I am fearful the
lis taken." •i , -•• i ': • • .

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a( whin Woes Age*, nobteitlerti SI tallalitslAlcanirt
perm Om plan, and wabroldlowllloooll Ole drub.
A tiara of Blom, or fteal,adaritd gems or COO.* WSW
. gloves and !hoes —A round drab of imam waarartilta rattan.'
Bread bee lee is down dm frame toad th. Wilk& 'lw btu
fan quite , trimmed with a tydrilotat
with A medawon or broach. A long ilk bawl. Wads
dared to salaam The hair Odra whb asbeidem wird 1114
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damunds. 'Whitefirco andhltodd ' •
HIM) Ditgaspi—it'iurbainikeril lit bast tic:
ad in from whits rnadadloo—LA tidos. • Imp Ada
hotbed with a long todirera the tapLaA '
muffin' the from assaawated with coadtadvipstiompr halt
&afro who oars—A =waft drabs of WA Altapcipilla,apacio
up store to tie throat with a collar. Neeklariadad *Mike Iftlf•
maim A dim bet =tied up hi draw. •
a osagorrious,--The tavoutted Monts dra pea-
pedis,llll6l;wall *hog psillbt; aria We Wham Ga.
!kepi xpadk ast ow perwsally. • lipsostra itod midtica at'
41104bgtntail . hate4laat enartlY =felt. Oth `T
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the dial of rho bead.
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Ly Ity..
74th Regiment of foot. from
had been for seamy years.
His RoyatHighnefs the Prince of Wataktieslefeit'
geasfed to apposes the )(evened Beilatate Wearsdni•
anv &moron, A.M. Rector of CaitersaidTkrigby.
'; II Norfolk, one•of Hit Royal. HiglifertfChaliassii•°
Batiiist liavr.-111 total .agniber of Gips sole
cAnniniiVorini U 710 s of saga radnerbef :die line;
from so to 44 guns, fourteen; frigates 157 r lova.
dce. 10 ; gun-brigs, dte. 235. - .
Adm a iral VLLsx Lois, whosomlnanded'ilweem.
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8o gans,Consacx!-ore a_
40 guar ;.4a Sybil*, of 4o guns ; and finereillehtel,
of 18 guns. which failed from L'Oricnt thastb Nos
vemberisnd took a W. S. W. cootie, made Cosa,
asd Florm,Mul from thence took a S. S. W. male
until they• fell in with the fleet under-convoy of his
Majeity's brig Wm. ttttt t, and captured three of
them, visa the Robert; of Liverpool. •Hero,t of Gild:
gow, and Belize, of Greenock, as well as the Blom
of London, which had joined the fleet that morning.
This fquadron lay to, and cruized two days after-
wards. and then Cent the prizes off, made the belt of
their way to the Cape de Verds, and anchored on dm
sad of December at St. Jago. On the 27th Deem.
bet they landed all the mallets and piffengers at- Past
an Prie ; and after taking in a fupply of water, he.
failed the afth December, and took a S. S. W. dimes
two, with a view to croize for the homeward bound
Batt Indiamen. Captain Simeon 2, General BA room
General Mout=ur a, and feveral other officers, yid;
Captains Das armee. Curter, and Jonas, their
mates, and all the paffengers, chartered an Americas
rad for the run to Barbadoes, where they arrived
on the t,th of January. Captain Stemple failed
from Barbadoes the 23d January in the Atalanta. of
and for Liverpool. The Atalanta attired at Milford
the 13th in R. Thej..ancailer kept company fourteen
days, and patted a gale of wind. Thd Charles,
Hamilton, and l'Africaine, were expelled to fail from
Barbadoes in a few days after the Atalanta.
The fquadron from L'Orient arrivedat Martinique,
under the orders of Commodore L'HErt satyrs, con-
ruts of the Regulus, of 8o guns, Frefident, of 40,
' Sybille of 4o and Surveillance, of 18.
The French fquadron from Brett, which is fuppofed
to have failed for the Ealt Indies, eonfills of the Vete•
ran, of 8o guns (Jssome Bo ttttt rs ), Foudroyant,
84, Eole, 74, lmpetueux, 74, Collor, 74, and Mallon,
74, the Valeureux, and four other frigates, and .two
corvettes.
Some Amer'can papers of the 121 of •FerbuarT
flate, that the Committee on that part of the Frefrdent's
Meffage relating to this Country, have propofed le.
veral refolutione, in which, r ft, the President is re-
quired to in it upon the reftoration of the American
property captured and condemned; and 2dly, the
expediency of non-importation of Britith goods is
urged. A m,,tion for putting an end to the inter.
courfe with this Country has been made by one of
tile Members. An article from New York of the loth
of February fay% "the fubjeft of the non-importation
of Britith goods has been deferred in the Lower
Houle of Congrefs for a few days ; in the mean time
the Secretary of the Treafury is to lay before the
'Houle an account of the Exports and Imports to and
from Great BritlinP

On Saturday morning John Mo.....rpaner of the
hny Maiddone, a coasting ?tetra from Rochen,.
London, was apprehended on fufpicion of having
murdered William Lee, a young ro.ro who belong-
ed to that 'did, ot% the ISth of March, off Cliffc-
point. Ile'was examined before T, Exxsorr, Efq.
and committed toirilatcillone jail, to take his trial at
the next all yes. ' . .

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Miidiigham. 22 0004ai the 24* Mirth!, by ell 2 !Um Dr.
nitiot Nairn, ot his M jertji ; yt.gloweet
littaotrT, to Mitt Lonualao. cldtit dittrikceof F. Coisenati,
id. D. Convey Ootway.

lined licets of the enemy at the battle of Trafalgar,
has obtained leave from our Government to return
to France qn his parole of honoqr.—,He has alto'
pelinlOion to take his Captains• with hint, and they'
will leave Reading in eenfeMietsce. in a few days: •
'The French naval uniform histemi chap g$ I the
drift of officers is no* green cloth, laced with gehi..
The friocrenetaoAll SOU, bid, (be. 210.144„
fefinallyfurr dared Hasbela to .1 deputation, coin*
Ipufecl.tifilli' tried 4desidifiltatPrs, 004 ilia Ott*.
of,Hantiver. 'He had "fold the French inegampee,
but the.trOqps had not set retired frogi jhe ganifen;
Part of their artillery tad been fent"tri,V.:efd. • :'
. . .
'Three large Ugh& vefels, employest in
India trade. de(tined for Jamaica,
.have been cap.
tmed.by la Condance.,Fretsch -primmer : wag
oil their voyage from -Dublin to Qak, ficaikrxe,
join tbeontwardtbound convoy. .one:ofthe pow
was retalten,; bes,the ewe :Ushers hays been, carried
into a•Famich port, the names of tile vet* mat
giv 0.7-10 P 1444.. Nara 18. • 'I I
iThe failing of a French fqoadron froml.fOrient
boo longer doubled. Captain Si si stoiiiilef sbe Bdisq
who arrived in to n 5 gives the following intending
narrative The (qua confided of the Regulus; el
Eliiguns.Consmo.!-ote L'Heastrrre le Prefident, of