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P
ivhich %%void not take away the possessions of above
4i.Lif A 19set people. .
• ,./i; „, CHANCELLOR of the EICHEQUER
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I before the Han. Gentleman proceeded farther,
to k:tow wi.it his object vAis at present t
' Mr. BARING said, he wished to move. dint the
Dr.t‘liitzs find Plani of the intended Pcst-office, and
the Eithylatei of the Eapences of Building, be laid
lice:re the Huse.
After some ctinveriation on this subject, between
the CHANCELLOR Of the Excuactuaa, Mr. H. SUMNER,
and Mi. BARING, the motion was Pottponed till to-1
tittorrovr.

SPIRITS INTERCOURSE BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved the turther consideration of the Report of the
Spirits Intercourse Bill.
The Report having been ordered to he recdmmitted,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved that it be an instruction to the Committee to
take the countervailing duties on British and Irish Spi-
tits into consideration.—Ordered.
Mr. P. GRANT wished to know whether ft wai I
competent to Counsel to argue against the principle
of the Bill ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that though, properly speaking, be was not
aware that Counsel could argue against the principle
Of the Bill. they might object to every clause in it.
Mr. WESTERN contended, that in the way the
Bill was no* drawn up, an additional injustice was
• superadded to what formerly existed.
.The Irish spi.
rits would come into the British market without pay.
ing any duty whatever.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, the Irish spirits would be submitted to counter-
vailing duties fully equivalent to what were paid by
the British distillers.
The House went into a Committee, and Mrilrlif.l
Apar.' was heard as Counsel for the Scotch distillers.
" Me: SCARLET was heard for the English distillers:'
The Counsel having withdrawn.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
Said; that his arish was to -establish a perfect recipro-
city between the two islands. For this purpose he
should submit some clauses, which he wished to have
printed, in order that they might be discussed on
some future day. The purport of the clauses-would
be, that the Scotch distillers should be allowed to ex-
part to Ireland.a/re spirits manufactured for the con.
sumpilon of England, and the English allowed to
`expert to Ireland the spirits manufactured for the'
.coninniption of Scotland ; and that a drawback
should be allowed on such part of the stock in hand
of 'pirits as might be exported to Ireland from Great
Britain: The principle of these clauses ,:vas unob-
betionable, and he hoped that in practice they would
found beneficial..
• Mr. PONSONBtagre*d in the principles avowed
by the Chancellor J the Exchequer, and said, that
his utdorM wish was, that the legislative enactments
should premed on the grotu4okitk strittestimpar-
iiaiity towards the two sountries.
Mt. W. SMITH highly • appsoYed of the declara-
tion of the last Speaker,: and whited it had always
been followed by the supporters of the Bill. The
Bill gave a decided advantage to the Irish manti&C.
turves and no reciprocity °could exist while the duty
• was htobt abturdly levied on the Irish spirit imported
itetettfit; to the quantity with* any refetencei to
ktrifigth. .Besides the Irish distiller might extract
fifteen gallons of spirit from 100 gallons of wash, and
pay the full duty for ten gallons only, and for the
remaining five gallons pay half the duty only. This
'coal& be *Me bit the •rnost conscientibus person, •but
those of loore lot principles might tun the risk of
istouggling, the only penalty in case of detection being
'to pay the whole duty. Nov.-the Irish distiltertnight
thus apply the five gallons to the bome*consuMption,
for which he paid but half, at most, of the duty, and
then afford to send the other ten gallons; at an Info-
klcir price, into the Britsh market. The Honourable
Pentletnan having; remarked on the conduct of the
supportert who maintained deception by
generalities, and who had the advantage of Ging
those days for ditcussion when their friends only
could be present, observed that no clauses could create
a perfect reciprocity that did not go to alter the
puerile and absurd state of the duties in Ireland.
Mr. FITZGERALD warthly defended the sup-
porters of the Bill and the representatives of Ireland
from the imputation of the Honourable Gentleman
(Mr.W. Smith), and explained the grounds on which
the Method of taring the Spirits ri?anufaCtared in
Ireland had been adopted, and that it was Intended
to'encourage legal distillation in that country, and to
ascertain the quantity of spirit which could be drawn
from a given quantity of wash. The Bonourable
Gentleman (Mr. Smith), he observed, was mistaken
In supposing that there was no penalty-affixed to the
attempt to escape paying the duty imposed on the
spirits drawn from 100 gallons of wain which ex-
ceeded 10 gallons. The penalty was £lOO, with
forfeiture ot the whole quantity.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT rose to repel the °Nen.
nations which bad been made on the supporters of
the 8111,. when' ,
- Mr. BROGDEN'observed, that it would be pro-
per to put aA end to the irregular conversation which
had arisen, there being no question before the Com-
Thittee.
After some further observations from Sir J.
New-
''POßT and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
Mr. HOSKISSON moved an amendment; that
the Nonintercourse should be continued until the Ist
of October, and that then the proposed Act should
come into operation.
A conversation of some length followed, in which
Messrs. Fitzgerald, B. Shaw, and D. Giddy, took a
part. The latter expressing a wish that upon equi-
table principles of reciprocity, the country exporting
should be bound to manufacture spirit of the same
strength as that ot the country into which it imported.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
'recommended the postponement of any discussion
upon the principle of the Bill to a future stage, at
which such discussion was more consonant to practice.
Mr. PONSONBY suggested the propriety of post-
poning the consideration of the proposed amendment
until the several clauses should be gone through, until
the real character and probable effect of the measure
should be ascertained.
Mr. FIUSKISSON declined to accede to this sug-
gestion, because he thought it impossible to frame
any measure upon this subject, in which common
justice would not require that the English distiller

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should be allowed an oplionnnity of dtsposing of flit
stock in band before the free import of an inferior Irish
spirit should be admitted into the English market.
Lord CASTLE REAG H deprecated the adoption
of the amendment, and argued in suppf;rt of the prin-
ciples uf the Union, which imperiously called upon
Parliament to deal equal justice to bath parti ef the j
Vaned Kingdom. The proposition of the amend-
ment oughtj in his conception, to he postponed until
I it was seen what regulations his Right Honourable
Friend, (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) meant to
bring forward, because those regulations might serve
to establish that very oßject of recipricity which the
Honourable Gentleman professed to have in view.
After some further conversation, in which the
CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. W. SMITH, Mr.
Hustoseots, and Mr. Hamm, took a part, a division
took place-For the Amendment 49—Against it 51.
The Amendinent was of course rejected.
The clauses having been gone through, the House
resumed, the Report was brought up, and ordered to
be further considered on Tuesday next.
The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and
the House adjourned at twelve o'clock.

TtlE EVENIST-G--g TAR.

LON DON.

• FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1814.
MICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Reduced 64—Co's. for see. 701-4 per Ct. 84
°ranking, itipre.—Bank Long Anus.l6, 11-16
India Bonds, Sig. 6s. pre._Exchequer Billy s. dis. gs. pre. .

We have received Hanibui-gh Papers of the 24th.
They contain.a report that VANDAMME has hanged
himself. The Berths Gazette announces a Treaty of
Peace between Denmark and Prussia. -The saute GA•
zette euntains an Address from the King of PRUSSIA to
his people, on the glorious and happy termination of
the war. The same Gazette contains letters to Baron
HARDEN BERG, and Marshal BLUCHER, and General
D'Yoactr. Baron HARDENBERG, and his descen-
dants, are raised to the rank of Princes ; Matsbal
BLUCHER to that of Prince of WAHLST ADT, his de-
scendants Counts of WAHLSTADT ; General I/A.ollex,
and his descendants, to have the title of Coma
YoacK of Wasemberg ; General Kuns-r, of Count
Kunz of Noblendorff ; General BuLow, of Denne-
vitz ; General TAUENZEIN, of Count TAUENEEIN of
HeUenberg ; and General GENERNI kti, Count GE-
NPASIAN. A grant of land to be annexed to each of
the tides. We select the following t
HANOVER, JUNE 21.
A Westphalian officer, who is just returned from
where he was a prisoner of war, affirms, that
the day betore he left that -place, Vandamme hanged
himself in his chamber. It is supposed that the re-
ceipt of the Ukase, ordering him to be sent to Siberia,
led him to this extraordinary step.
HAMBLIRGH, JUNE 24.
General Benningsen has appointed a Commission
to examine and deliver up the private property taken
by the French in Hamburgh, and the environs, for
which receipts were given, which property, or such
part, as is still in the magazines, is to be restored to
the °wadi on proving their titles.
The new Norwegian Constitution excludes the Jews
from the country. Wahlstadt, from which Marshal
Blucher takes-his title, is a village near Leignitz and
the Katzbach, bttilt in commemoration of a great b
in 1241 between Henry 11. Duke of Silesia, aid the
Tartars, in which the Duke was defeated and killed.
The 5000 sick whout the French left behind them
in our hospitals are all to be conveyed by sea to
Havre and Dunkirk. The gfeater part of them hive
already been embarked and sailed. This measure has
given us great satisfaction, not only because our citi-
zens would have been exposed to great danger of in-
fection on the approach of the hot weather, hut be-
cause the intermediate countries• between this and
France would have been endangered by the transport
of these poor creatures, of whom between 30 and 40
still die daily.
Since the Ist of June last year, 66 public and pri-
vate buildings in this city have been employed as
hospitals, which, during the months of January and
February, contained "nearly •10i000 sick, of whom
from 60 to 70 died daily. We had to supply all
their wants of every kind, and are still charged with
this bUrthen.

Of tlaioust's army corps alone, estimated at
25,000 men, 9846 have, from June, 1813, to June,
1814, been buried from our hospitals ; and there still
remain between S and 900 raw youths* whose reco-
very is extremely doubtful.
In proportion as Our hospitals are evacuated by
the sick, they are delivered up to a Commission of
Health, who are charged with the care of seeing
them cleansed and purified►
BERLIN, JUNE 18.
44 To MT PROP/A.—The contest for which my people took
up arms with me is ended, bappily ended by the help of GOD, by
the faithful support of our Allies, by the vigour, the courage, the
perseverance, and the self-denial, which every Prussian has
ihewn in. this bard struggle ; accept my thanks for it. Great
have been your exertions—great your sacrifices. I know and
recognise ahem. Gop above has also beheld them. We have
attained what we sought to attain; Prussia stands crowned with
glory before the eyes of its contemporaries and of posterity, in_
di pendent by its tried vigour, proved in prosperity and in adver.
One and all you rushed to arms in the whole nation, but
• one feeling. so also was the contest; such zeal I saw then is re-
warded by GOD, he will now reward it by the peace. By the
Peace which he has given us, better times will return with this

peace. 'The peasant will no more sow for strangers, be will reap
his harvest fbr himself ; trade will revive, industry and science
will flourish; the welfare of all ranks will be re•established •
and, in a new order of things, the wont& will close which have
been Inflicted by your long•sufering. (Signed)
" Dated Paris, June 3,1814. " rasa. eritAtAxt."

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