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NOM OF COMMONS. MARCH is.
Purbust to the defire expreffed in a Mame feast the Hoare
a( ears, the Speaker and leveed Member, went to th:ll4Utz
Houk. On his return the Speaker seqsainted the Hoak
had beard the Royal
Addidonal /Went given
Po by eanurddisa to the so Mll.
Nom Leo OM the itage Doty FA the twee**
Bill, &adipose Private NU
Mr. Batumi. gave notice that an Thtufday newt he would
mare fer leave to Inks In a MU for the better regulation of Elea
aims in Inks&

Lord W. Rosen moved, not the Order for the Honk this
day taking Into readderation the Report of the Koardborooph
Ridden Committee, be difcbarged, sod that the Order be made
met for Tharfday nat. He would then move, that the Attorney
General be defired to profealte the efftsdlog pardes..—Tbe Order
Ise TharGloy was agreed Why the Hook
Mr. Carefree, with leave of the Hook, poßponed his medic
relative to the Of:Weldon of Mr. Ffwdyee, from Ttordtipy to
Toeftley

An Account waa probated from the Conimillionees appointed
for the Iledadtice ef the National Debt in Irdaed,itating the m-
irth which has been wade towards the attainment of that qbjed.
...Ordered to be laid on the table. and to be printed.

LLCACY DUTY SILL.

Mr. STURM BOUINa moved, that the Hog fe ;meld go into
a Comndttee of the wbok Hoek an the Legacy Duty on
Friday nest.
Mr. Gm Minted to know. as the mime introdeced s new
primipb, if tip 1111 could be printed ?
Mr. S. &vans thought there Inlaid gm be time foickito—
Poitpoood tin ray.

MUTINY 3114..
Couverfation of eonfiderable length took plate
on the /doting for the third Reading of the above
Bill, and on the bringing up of the Claufes requiring.
the Members of Regimental Courts Martial to be
(worn, and authorifing them to omi:tiller oaths to
Witnefee.

The SECRETARY at WAR, General FITZ.
PATRICK, Sir EYRE COOTE, and General
NORTON, defended the principle of the Claufe on
the ground that it would tend to thew the foldier in
a dill more convincing manner thati ever that the
Legifiature had a careful eye over their interefts with-
cm there being the flightett murmur of complaint,
and indeed when the Houle bad the fullelt convic-
tion that no tante of complaint elided, but that the
meafure was inch as Parliament in its wifdom had
thought fit to adopt, for the 'porpofe of giving a
greater degree of dignity to the proceedings of Inch
Courts, and alto with a view to the metering of fol-
dim again!!! the etre& of frivolous complaints, which
ore frequently made sgaintt them by perfons who
are not in the Army, as the ten of adjuration would
!sidle means of afcertaining what was the truth with
a greater degree of Certatuty than could hitherto
bay', been done in firth caret. At the fame time th,
Honourable Members ruppored that by this means
a foldier would be rendered more contented with his
fituation, and the attachment of the foldier to the
Officer would be confider ably increafed.
Sir JAMES PULTENEY laid, that he had not
beard a fufficient reafon eftablithed to anthorife the
Hoare in making fuch an alteration in an efiablithed
regulation of the army, under which it had flourithed
for many years. He thought there was a deal of
good fence in a letter to which his Right Hon.
Friend (Mr. Windham) had referred, which ob-
(treed that, though the nuncsuarres which it is necef-
Cary for a foldier to be 'killed in are Wily learned,
the adaptation of the mind to a ready obedience of
every order, a cheerful endurance of every bardthip,
and an inviolable attachment to his fuperiors,
confti-
tnted the moll material parts of x folchees charafter,
and was the moll difficult to be obtained. The na.
tural tendency of the claufes now propofed would
have a tendency to difunite the foldier from the offi-
cer, as be would then think himfelf more independent
of him, and the examination of the witnelies og oath,
as to the fubjea of inferior crimes, would be an ob.
*tele in the way of afcertaining the truth ; as they
would frequently be apt to fay that', ley 'Wired!,
though they could not pofitiv* briar. Theredid
not appear to be any prat ice' neceffity for the
fore, and be mould vote again& it.
Lord TEMPLE was Anteilling to give his airent
to the multiplication of oaths, efpccially when the
party who was guilty of fuch a crime was not
liable to any puniffinrent for the breach of his oath.
A General Court Martial was a Court of Record, the
witnelfes were (worn, and were liable to be profecuted
for perjury if they (wore fare, A Regimental Court
Martial was not a Court of Record, and could not,
therefore, with propriety, be affimilated to that which
was one. ..

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
agreed with the gallant Officer, that 'there was no
radical neceffity for the meafure which was now
propofed I but as the fubjeoft had been bronght for-
ward to be dircullid, he mull fay that he fincerely
approved of the meafure. It was the more generous
of the Houfe to grant fo much in favour of-the Ar-
my without being sliced to do fo, or even hearing a
murmur on the fubjsa. With refpea to the evafion
of witaeffes on account of the folemnity of an oath,
drat would ;end to &cher the foldier againft the fri-
volous complaints of inhabitants who might be ready
to Rate their charges unattetled, but would be apt
to be more cautious of bringing fuck charges spin&
the men, when they knew at they would have to
atteft them upon oath.
Lord DE BLAQUIERE Paid, that the innova-
tion was made by Regimental Courts Martial being
(offered to tread upon the heels of the general courts.
However, he thought it would be a mockery of the
folemnity of their proceedings to have an oath ad-
reinalered for the examination .of every charge of a
petty nature.
Colonel rgANKLAND nhferved, that it might
alninft as reafonabiy expelled that a fchool-
inAtter fbnuld be (warn to tl., juflice at every time
that them was a breath of order among his fcho-

astern's!! dint Weh a neettfave &told ke re.
the trial 4f every petty offence he the,

tiro oral WILLIAM STEWART reneged the
or g a more numerous attendance of
Officers oo n 1 Courts Martial. He thought
that the nu of Officers requifite to form a Court
Gould be died at (even, or at the lowa it ffiquld be
made necefary that five Would be prefent.
quantum of paniament for trivial offences, be was of
opinion, ought to be particularly defined, according
to the nature of the offence.
Brigadier General CHARLES STEWART
would not have intruded himfelf on the notice of the
Hoofs, being aware of the number of Officers that
were more experienced than himfelf, and confeqnent-
ly better judges of the claufes to be introduced into
the Bill before the Houfe than himfelf, had it not
been for the circumflance of the fintilarity of rank
and name between his Hon. Friend General Stewart
and himfelf, and confcquently of the poffibaity of
his Friend's fentiments, which he highly refpeaed,
but did not approve, being taken for his. He was
againd the ideas his Hon. Friend had fisted to the
Houfe, of limiting punilhtnents to be infiiaed, and
the neeeffity of feven or five Officers on Regimental
Courts Martial. He had the honour to command a
regiment of cavalry very much difperfed in Ireland,
and if it was necaffitry. io a difpand quarter,to af-
(amble five or feven Officers before a [mall ffence
could be punifhed by Court Martial, or to tranfport
the prifolier, with all evidence, 6o or 8o miles for
.head-quarters, for the fame end, the prifoner would
be kept much longer in confinement before trial, and
the thing attended with very great inconvenience and
no advantage. General Stewart' thought military
Courts Martial, as far as he could judge, concluded
with decorum, and was again& anp clears being in-
troduced in the Mutiny Bill, bUt-would not attempt
to fay, as the thing had been agitated by the Secre-
tary at War, how far it was now politic to recede
from the propofition.
The queffion was then put, and the claufe read a
fir[ time.

On the qoeftion for thefecond reading of the clank,
revere! other obferrations were made, nearly to the
fame elle&

Sir j. WROTTESLEY, however, thoogh he ob-
leited to the elaufe Bing added to the WU, Paid
that he oppofed it through an apprehedion of the
improper ofe that tniglat'be made of it by pettyfog
ging attornies. He, however, did not profs the Houk
to a cUrifion.

That part of the foggertion of General Fitzpatrick
that relates to (he age of the Prefident of a Regi.
mental Court Martial, was, after tome debate,
given up.
The other amendment, as already flate4, was for-
med into a new claufe, which was at length ail4ed.
by way of rider to the Bill, which was then pared;
and ordered to be fent to the Lords.
TAX ON HORSES VIIILO IN /11011COLTURI.

The order of the day being moved-for the (mad
reading of this Bill,
Mr. PLUMER obferved, that the Right Hopour-
able Gentleman oppefiti (lidr.Pitt) finned to be very
much miaaken as to the capacity of the Farmer to
pay this tax. He allured the Right Hon. Gentleman
that the fanner could better ad to contribute to-
wards'the exig -mcies of the State when corn was fold
for one fourth of the price which it now bears than
he can et prefent, notwithflanding the confideration
of the high price of corn might induce Gentlemen to
form a very different opinion. If, however, as had
been (aid on a former night, the tax mould ultimately
be made to fall upon the confnmer, this was a time
which was peculiarly unfit for the impofition of a tax
Which would fall upon the lower orders of the people.
He did not snake the °Nation which he now dated,
on account of an additional tax being laid upon the
people, as he knew that under the prefent cream.
dances of the country, it was the duty of eyery man
cheerfully to give the utmoa of his affiikance towards
the fupport of the State. But he objeaed to the tax,
as falling 'upon a clefs of people who were unable to
bear the borthen.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
Paid, every' thing in his power to command had been
called in aid, with the view' to equalize the general
fylient of taxation, and more new founts had been
fought out to es:a this, than had been relbrted to
at fOrmer periods. Not only general principles had
been regarded, bat a minute examination of the par.
ticular circumflexes applicable to the feparate cafes
bad been attended to. Thus, here it was difcovered,
that in Elks, Norfolk, and Berktitire, the tax, on an
average; would not extend to more than between four
and five horfes on each farm. -There were not more,
on the average, than three= the graft farm., and
not more than five, on the arable ground, liable to
this tax. Iliere was no arable country which had net
foam graft farms, and no grazing diaries which had
not tome portion of arable: It might be fair to cop;
fider the bufthen to fall upon both, in the pvtiportion
of 1.750 th, i. t. upon arable, 1.500 th, and upon griffs,
t-toootk part of the produce of the farm. Confider-
ing.tbe weekly fluEtuations of the markets, mid the
magnitude of the concern, this really could Mt be
chi as ferious argument again& the tax. The ut-
molt to which it could ittiount would be Ad per
quarter of wheat.. This qUantity was rather more
than the eonfumption of nue perfon during the whole
year. If, then, the Houfewas called upon to impofe
productive taxes, there appeared tamely any which
could be lets objeeionable. 'The only other ground
of refinance which bad been taken, was the inperio-
rity it gave to grids over arable farms. It did Teem
to him that the reafoning applied to the former quef.
tion, completely anfwered the prefent. Would the
eircunallance of paying I Id. mote upon wheat, induce
the farmer to alter his fyitem, and to throw his land
into grafs t or mould he not be governed in his de-
termtnation by objets more fit to influence his mind
on a &ilea of this nature ? But Gentlemen, when
they hated there objeeions, were hot confidering upon
whom the tau would ultimately fall; it has manifell
that it would devolve, not upon the farmer, but upon
the land. Yet admitting the farmer would exclufively
fullain this tax, was there, even in that cafe, any ra-
tional motive to oppok its From the very nature of
taxation in a fociety engaged in •diverfified purfuits
and buena,. it was necedary that the bunhen &odd
be impofed famed:nes on one clefs, fornetimvs an an-
other. Lately we had a tax upon clerks, porters and
perfons excluilvely kept by merchants, manulatan-
rers, and tradeffnew there it might have been ob-

jeaed. This was exclolivelly en e4ll4latto as yea- '
fonably as that bei e it-fhoulsi be feparately on agri-
culture. The whole return upon commercial pro-
perty was only z 8 millions upon agriculture, it was
40 millions. All that could be done, was to make
the one counterbalance the other, and diminiffi the
weight as much as poffible upon the whole community.
Mr. PLUMER rote to explain.
Mr. COKE's (of Norfolk) ground of objeaion
was, that the tax tended to deprive the farmer of the
means of cultivating his land. He was confident,
that thelait tax had occafioned fewer bodes being
kept than were necefary for the improvement of tlie
; and he believed. if the Right Hon. Gentleman
felt the fame conviaion he (Kr. Coke) did on this
ruble& this fax would not be fo arenuoolly staid by
him. The effect was, that the quantity of grain was
diminithed by' fuch indifcreet impofitions, and the
land was not marled and moored adequately. from
the deficiency of animal Rringth on the ground. It
was* familiar faying. that when poverty got into the
liable, it would not be long before it crept into the
hoofs. There was as little minima amonga far.
niers ht any county of the kingdom is Norfolk ; yet
the tax would be perniiiiias there. He did not fay
oxen might not be ufed to great advantage; but after
all the efforts that had been mad* to introduce theta,
they were very rarely and partiallt ensplogid, and
he hoped that it was not the [chew of the Right
Hon. Gentleman to propoth a tai for the exprefs
purpofe of forcing the ox 'team op the fanner, con.
nary to his judgment and' experience. Whatever
might be the fanciful calculations of the Right Hon.
Gentleman. he would venture to airert, that the tax
would amount to is: an acre inmate upon the rents
of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. It was four
pounds aerling upon each plough, and it would be,
in the fame ratio throughout the tin done.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCI-lEQIJER,
and Mr. COKE. faid •a few words in explanation.
Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNNE:faith this
was a tax upon land entirely. and which preffed upon
improvement molt unequally. The quantity of
horfef required depended upon various contingencies.
Some firms had the facility of water communica.
titles by canals and rivers,' and hence leis tnufctilar
force was requifite. It was peculiarly hard uponlands
Ina able to Ibpport the tax. becatife poor lands re-
quire moil manure, moll tillage, and molt 'animal
labour of every kind. Grafs land was the spoil pro.
dsaive, and yet; on the computation of the Right
Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Pitt), it paid only half
tJle rum towards the revenue that was exalted of the
arable ground. The laa year, from the molt
enlightened policy. it was the endeavour to increafe
thequantity of tillage. Now fainn contraaed views
we were to connteraa that pindens, fyaem,. In
mountainous diaries fix hales wertygplayect when
three only were fufficient on the phone Row could
a man, occupying a farm of 601., Lipp; afford to
pay di. per annum for fix horfes f •
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
explained, that all horfes under t 3 hands high were
excluded, and alto (mall farms. It might be a quef.
nod for the Cotntuittee to decide on the precifie limit
under which no farm guirild be liable.

Sir WATRIN WiLLIAMS WYNNE raid the
exemption mould extend to all bodes under i 4 and
a half hands, for none beloer tbolt height were in
general fuited to draught.
Mr. FOX had very little that he now prepared to
offer on the general prints.* of the Bill. Tke farms
at prefent eaen h tpt were are ender ail and that was
a very (mall coneeffion. The tax was exclulively
upon land, and upon arable, in contra.dittinetion to
grafi land. It was alfo upon (mall farms moll bur-
thenfome for on the capital employed in the larger,
it mull be much Ids fenfibly felt. He had always
underlined it was the defign, from confiderations the
mat urgent, to promote the employment of the
plough; why this prole& lhould be abandoned, he
bras not at all aware. When this was not only con-
fidered as a dire& tax upon land, but was conuated
with the time in which it was impofed, with the Pro-
perty Tax, and with the difficulues with which the
farmer had to encounter from various mires, who
could doubt that it was a (aimss difcouragement of
agriculture?
Th* CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
raid, he had endeavoured to hew the futility of the
argument agaitill the tax, as an impediment to agri-
culture, and had the Hon. Gentlemen been in his
, the objeitioniwouid have had lets ireigbt per-
ps than be ( Mr. Fox) now eonfidered them to ge&rs.
Mr. H. WILLIAMS oppofed the tax as very op-
weffive upon the poorer fartners, and as conducive to
lefen the number of horfes employed in the culture
of the ground.
Mr. DICKENS, on runner principles, refilled this
mean:re. What with the Property Tax, the ibcrea-
fed poor rates, and the advance in every utenll on
the farm, whether fupplied by the fmith, the wheel.
wright, or by whatever defcription of mechaniii, it
was inspoffible, that under all there ditcouragements;
agriculture, on which the labfillence of the country
depended, could Smith.
GILES (aid,' the Bill would be oppreffive to
the farmer,- and could not for a confiderable time
reach the.conftimer.' Nearly 400,0001. would be to
be rairld by the. II of Ohober next, if the Right
Hon. Gentleman ' Was fuccefsful in the Additional
Force Bill; and whin the burden of that impofition
was confidered, he hoped there would be little incli-
nation in any part of the Houle to enhance the diffi-
culties of the farmer. Bottle had a filmset ground
of oblation ; he Would contend, that the Houle could
not impure this tax without a breach of the faith of
Parliament. In order to explain this, we mull advert
to the Property Tax. This was not what its title
p.prported it to be,but it was upon the profits arifing
c•ut of profellions, offices, and empfernents of
ens kinds. The merthant madea return of his pro-
fits, and upon thathe paid his tax. Not to with the
farmer, his profit warnot fo received, it was dentin&
ed to amount to three-fourtheof his rent, and neither
more or lets was to be the alined, of his profits.—
Hence Parliament. could not import. new 'lazes to
lefen his profit, without a flagrant violation 'of their
engagement. Thin was in oblation to inky tax up.
On the capital of the farmer employed in his trade:—
(4 cry of 1 Isar I from tie lifialfirial lforrlos.) He
was glad to obferve the attention of Gentlemen on
he other fide was excited, and be hoped they would
therefore underlland, it was exprefbly agreed, on the
faith of Parliament, that the farmer's -profits ibquld
I bear a given proportion to his rent.

Mr. CANNING Lid. Gentlemen had adverted to
the Additional Force Bill. Nine, ten, or eleven thou-
fand men were to be railed under it—this was one or
two men film each porn. and could not add fo much
to the burthen of the farmer as Gentlemen teemed to
imagine. The argument of the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman, as applied to the faith of Parliament, he
could not at all comprehend. It would prove too
much, if it proved any thing ; for it svould then thew
that all taxes. immediate or tntermediate, on the
mer, would be a violation of public faith.
Dir. GREY replied to the Right Hon. Gentleman
on the fubjee of the Additional Force Bill, in refpee
to which a great mifapprehenfion was indulged. The
' Bill was to raife 03,000 men, and in the whole 27,000:
not 2,000 had yet been produced by it ; hence this
large defalcation was to be provided, and the burthen
bad been very moderately computed by Gentlemen
on his tide of the Honk. The Tax now propofed
was moll impolitic, new difficulties were riling on
every fide, and the great refource to enable us to
encounter thefe was the improvement of agriculture,
which. Was thus unwifely fruftrated. He very much
doubted the policyof the Bill of the loft Beffion, for
Which the Right Hop. Gentleman teemed to airtime
to mach merit ; and of this he was confident, as a
general principle, that the lets tbek matters were in.
terfered with II 'Aga/titre regulation the better. •
The ATTOulgit GEN RA I: laid, Gentlemen
had conjured up a phantom, in order to arnufe them-
(elves, tut winch could have po concern with the
prefent propofitiori. The extent and the general (pi-
nt of impmvement wee well known. and it was not
to be &Co:waged by fuch truing eircumilances. f.f
Gentlemen were really finfiblethatthe meafore would
be injurious to agriculture, all of them would concur
in oppofing this tax, but the mere allegation yea.v
not to be admitted as proof of pernicious tenday.
Was it to be fuppofed, confideritlg the large iptereft
and property involved in agriculture, that a
horfe would be dil-niiffed for the trifling confideratinn
of (even thillings and fixpence Was it gravely to p:
contended fueh would be the effeft ?

Sir ROBERT BUXTON laid, the farmers had
been reduced to the greatell extremity and if the
price of corn had continued as it was left year; MOO
of them would have been ruined. He felt the abfo;
lute necelLty of taxes, and he detefied to oppofe
them ; but he could not avoid colfidering the prefent
as very impolitic.
Mr. BASTARD contended, that the farmers
were tingled out as objeCt's of taxation, onder pecu-
liar difadvantages. The Property Tax' was fup-
pofed to be an income us, but it was not fo to Cie
farmer. If he fent hit books to the Commiflioners,
they Paid they had nothing to do' with them ; and
whatever might be his loges, he was'obliged to pay,
as if hihad acquired a tont-Kimble pro6}. 64s
Bill were to increafe the price of bread ; if its ten-
' deney was to lam the quantity of arable land'; if to
drive moo men from the innocent einployMent bf
tisk field of nature to the field of battle; under ant
or all of thefe circumilances, he mull oppofe the
meaftire. ' - •

Mr.'RQSE FULLER raid a few words.
Mr. SPENCER STA. 7it ExeFommended e;-
tending the eaemptioijs t: =~ , •.
•• •:-. okfiderable
rent, and not toimputrilut • • -.. • 01* where
werelti%
only tiro horfes ... --.. ,M.. 4`
Mr. HUSKISSON. • ,api4on which!
this tax was objetted - ipply.to all others.-.:
The former tax did not operate to Wren the number
of horfes ; on the contrary, they had greatly increaf:
ed. In tttl, there were exempted 29,oco'horfes, of
which Boon were employed in Wales ; fo that the
Hon. Baronet had no reafon to complain of the bur.
then in his own country. One third of the licirf.s iit
that principality paid no duty.
Mr. FELLOWS fait, the number of honks in
ttlos, were all,ooo ; in 1803, 29,000. ;Te thought
they had lately diminithed, and-they would' Oe -et
further reduced by the tax.

Mr.BAKEK laid fuch a tax ought to be well
confidered, before it was paired, and he thought ttiat
confideration would lead W an unfavoUrihlt ;0041-
Gon as to its tendency.'
The quedion being loudly called for, the Hoare
divided, when there appeared—Againa the lice:int:l
reading of the Bill 76—For it 73—Majority againit
the Bill 3.

SALT DUTY.

The order of the day for the third reading of the
Salt Duty Bill being moved—
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEIZIER.
Paid, it was his intention to propofe an alteration
this tax, with relped to Scothnd, as he had been af-
Cured the quality of fait tiled there was much infe-
rior, and confequently a greaser quantity of it was
necefary for the purpofe of curing than that ufed in
England ; but if, on enquiry, it fhould be found
otherwife, he hoped' he thould not fm barred from
laying on the tax.
Mr. KINNAIRD was happy he was prevented
from bringing forward his motion for an amend-
bunt with refpeet to Scotland, by the Right Honou-
rable Gentleman's (Laing his intention of making an
alieratiem.

Sir WILLIAM YOUNG faid, it was a tax princi-
pally bearing on the lower orders of people, and then
entered into a tlatement of the different quantities of
falt neceffary for curing hogs of different weights,
urging ftrongly, that the bacon hog falted by the
poor man, took much more fah than that which would
be cured for a gentleman'. table.
Sir ROBtRT BUXTON faid, the fame rearm
which made him vote against the Taft tax, namely,
that it was pot on general confumption, made 1.;,,t
vote for this, as he thought it was an equitable tat.
• Mi. C. W. WYNNE (aid, the fame reafon
made him vote against the laft tax, made him alio
vote tglittft this, as it was a tax on the poor, woo
ufed much more falt than the rich.
Mr. BGERT9N walled to know, whether it w cre
the intention of the Minitler at that time to alt,:r the
tail with refpeQ to Scotland, and what that alteration
Ivriuld be ? •

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
Paid, what he meant was, that the Salt Duties
lhould be augmented with refpea to Scotland, in die
fame proportion as they now bore to the Sal: Dmic,.
in England.
Mr. ROSE thonght the confumption amongft the
poor was not fo great as atonne the rich, 21.1 en-
tered 'into a proof of the advantages derived from
drawbacks. •

iirTIaINSTONE raid, the poor mof Iteceirr:;:,
•

BROKE OPEN between Monday 2 th and
--
day satalrebreary.loanloase's SOS. tllol'ool6.
the Itronondemed Asileles.;
S. A Gold
the
Week with the Maker's name as the ilfe,
A.
Plates the sides the Weide weeks as Nader. issues Seaga:
HAY
S. A Heir Chi% pima. Geld henundog, with Ave bid Seib
lafpmded to it, sew of which was t muted. a Cypher C.V.I.
with the Motto, hiseerity, the others were Set IMMO.
3. A hese Gold Ring with an Amiga Head of a Grey CadooMn
a Mamma Cafe, sew warn.
4. A Dlsmood Pin. droller Rape.
S. A Diem 1/enemata toreedve Hair.
Umy of the above Articles have bees Wend ler felt. fat that
say one esagive aimed account of the Perfos or Perrone who tem.
tiered them, than reedy, a Reward according to the Value of the
' Articles, escialive of the Reward for apprehendiog and eonvietleg
Moos. by applying Porimally. or by Letter. at Harrel's Libealp
Weymouth.
PARLI4MENTARr PROCEED/Nal.
•
HOUSR OF COMMONS. 'LARCH is.
Portman to the defire expreffed in a McCaig from the Hoare
alPeara, the Speaker and fevers' Members west to the
Houle. On his return the Speaker ~Stained the Hoak 64
had beard the Royal /Went given by ereamMisa to the sa
lions Las 1101, the Addidonal Mtge Duty pal, the itharandoe
Bill, sad false Private MU
Mr. Ilatutacc gave notice that as Thtufday neat he would
mare far leave to being in a Bfil for the batter regulation at Elsa
irons in helm&
Lord W. Rum. moved, That the Order for the Houk this
day taking into coafideration the Report of the Koarelboroagit
Eledlion Comatittee, be difebargal. aad that the Order be made
met for Thereby nat. He wood that move, that the Attorney
General be dented to pedants the affesding panks..—The Order
Ilse ThurGlay was agreed 'lrby the Hank
Mr. CIZVIZT. with leave of the Hoofs, rearmed his static
relative to the Detail:Woo of Mr. Fordyce, from Tharkipy to
Tocklay nat.
An Account was prefinted from the Contmillioners appointed
for the Rednalan of the National Debt in irehod,ilathig the m-
ire& which has been made emends the attainment of that Wed.
• ...Ordered to be laid on the table, and to be printed.
LLCACY DUTY SILL.
Mr. STURM Bala Ma moved, that the Hoek *odd go into
a Comndttee of the wink Hoak as the Legacy Duty Rill oa
Friday nest.
Mr. Gm wiihed to know. as the meanie intradaced a new
priodpie, if the ROI could be printed ?
Mr. S. floosies thought there would one be time fullidest•—,
• licteyened tM Frbity.
MUTINY DILI.
A Converfation of confiderable length took plug
on the Motion for the third Reading of the above
Bill, and on the bringing up of the Claufes requiring
the Members of Regimental Courts Martial to be
(worn, and authorifing them to adminitter oaths to
Witnefee.
The SECRETARY at WAR, General FITZ.
PATRICK, Sir EYRE COOTE, and General
NORTON. defended the principle of the Claufe on
the ground that it would tend to thew the foldier in
a dill more convincing manner thati ever that the
LegiOature had a careful eye over their interells with.
• , oat there being the flighteß murmur of complaint,
and indeed when the Houle bad the fullelt convic.
Lion that no tante of complaint elided. but that the
meafure was flub as Parliament in its wifdom had
thought fit to adopt, for the 'porpore of giving a
greater Awe. of dignity to the proceedings of Inch
Courts, and alto with a view to the thawing of fol.
dig" again!! the elk& of frivolous complaints, which
ore frequently made againft them by perfons who
are not In the Army, as the ten of adjuration would
lack the means of afcertaining what was the truth with
a greater degree of certainty than could hitherto:
have, been done in filch cafes. At the fame time th,
Honourable Members fuppored that by this metal
a foldier would be rendered more contented with hit
fituation, and the attachment of the foldier to the
officer would be confider ably increafed.
Sir JAMES PULTENEY raid, that he had not
heard a fufficient reafon ellablithed to authotife the
Hoare in making fuch an alteration in an ellablithed
regulation of the army, under which it had flourillted
for many years. He thought there was a deal of
good fence in a letter to which his Right Hon,
Friend (Mr. Windham) had referred, which ob
ferved that, though the mancsuires which it is necef
fary for a foldier to be 'killed in are eafily learned.
the adaptation of the mind to a ready obedience of
every order, a cheerful endurance of every bardfhip
and an inviolable attachment to his fuperiors,
toted the moll material parts of i folder's charafter
and was the moll difficult to be obtained. The na
tural tendency of the chitties now propofed woult
have a tendency to difunite the foldier from the of
• ter, as be would then think hitnfelf more independeil
of him, and the examination of the witnelies op oath
as to the fubjea of inferior crime*, would be an ob
Bade in the way of afcertaining the truth ; as the]
would frequently be apt to fay that'they
though they could not pofitiv* fwear. There-dig
not appear to be any prafticar neceffity for the mei
fore, and be fbould vote againfi it.
Lord: TEMPLE was Anteilling to give his afien
• to the multiplication of oaths. efpecially when tho
. party who was guilty of fuch a crime was no
liable to any puniffasent for the breach of his oath
A General Court Martial was a Court of Record, tb
witnelfes were (worn, and were liable to be profecutet
for perjury if they (wore fare, A Regimental Corr
• Martial was not a Court of Record, and could not
therefore, with propriety. be affimilated to that wheel
was one.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUEP
agreed with the gallant Officer. that 'there was nt
radical neceffity for the meafure which was nos
propofed I but as the fubjeft had been brought for
ward to be dircuffed, he mull fay that he fincerel;
approved of the meafure. It was the more genernu
of the Hoare to grant fo much in favour of-the Ar
it my without being sliced to do fo, or even bearing
murmur on the rubjea. With refpee to the evafito
of witoeffes on account of the folemnity of an oath
drat would ;end to Ascher the foldier agaipft the fri
volous complaints of inhabitants who might be read;
to (late their charges unattetted, but would be ap
to be more cautious of bringing fuels charges ageinl
the men, when they knew drat they would have tt
atteft them upon oath.
Lord DE BLAQUIERE raid, that the knows
r tion was made by Regimental Courts Martial beint
• fit &red to tread upon the heels of the general court'
: However, he thought it would be a mockery of th
folernnity of their proceedings to have an oath ad
sninalered for the examination .of every charge of
petty nature.
Colonel )'RANKI.AND ofiferved, that it mirth
?.L aloof as rearonabiy expeAed that a fchool
1 trailer thoold be (warn to juilice at every thin
that theta was a breath of order among his (the

ufe more falt, on amount of their living principally
on vegetable food. He thought the Hon. Gentleman
who Spoke before him had mifiaken drawbacks for
bounties, and concluded by laying, it was not on ac-
count of the quality of the fah ufed in Scotland, but
becaufe the people were not able to pay fo high a
duty, that the Miniiter had propofed to lighten the
Tax.

Mr. ROSE role to explain, and alto to entreat the
Foerty of the Houle to turn afide charges of mil.
takes and mif ftatements which had been impuredt o
him (a cry of order front the *Ore fads) : he was al.
lowed to proceed, and argued snore fully in favour
of the advantages of drawbacks.
•
Mr. JOHNSTONE explained.
The SECRETARY at WAR entered into a cal.
culation of the different Duties on Salt paid by Scot-
land and England, fince the commencement of the
Tax.

Mr. DUNDAS underflood, that finee the Union,
down to t 798, t! taxes on falt in England and Scot-
lAnd, bore a proportion to each other : in that year,
he laid, an addition of five fhillings was laid on the
kingdom at large ; but that it was found to be fo nn.
fair a duty, that in the year after it was lowered with
refpeft to Scotland.
The Honfe then divided—For the third reading,
91---Againa it, 34—Majority 38.
When (hangers were again admitted to the gal-
let), an amendment was agreed to, and added as a
rider to the Bill, all raving a drawback of as. upon all
coarfe fall exported from Scotland.
The Bill was then pallid.
• PACITIATT TAX. • .

• The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER
moved the order of the day for the third reading of
the Bill for the Augmentation of the Property Tar.
Mr. FOX rote, not to oppofe the voodoo on the
grouted of his original objedion to the tar, but mere-
ly to enter his protect againft thisfpecics of increafe.
He would .not. now inquire, whether the tax was
found:d in frond policy, though .if at all jultifiable,
it was:ll.lll;64We only as a war tar.. Bat even in that
cafe, tome limit ought .to be let. to it at the com-
mencement of a war, loch as the fire per cent. at the
commencement of the prefent war, which the Houle
Ihould determine not to exceed, aisles (Dine very ex-
traordinary and unforefeen circumftances should vire,
its to the nature and duration of the war. .To in.
create it ccntinually ty an annual per centage, he
thought moll unfair. A facility of augmenting it
year after year, would thus be created and ailed upon,
till little of the property of the country was lett is
its original hands. It was no anfwer to this, to fay,
that 90 years of war would be need:ay, before the
whole property was taken at the rate of the prefcnt
increafe. as nobody conceived that the whole, or any
thing like the whole, could in any circumilances be
taken. It was beyond a doubt, that filch a tax, if
carried to any great height, dirOtly took away the
property of the people, and tended to alienate the
a4eaion of the fubjefl, more than any other meafure
of taxation whatfoever.

The CHANCELLO Rof the EXCHDZUE R beg.
ied >A enter his rota agaisilt the printiplc laid down
by the Hon. Gentl:man, which was dangerousto the
country, aad contrary to the principle of all Parlia-
mentary proceedings—he swam that of tying up the
hands of Parliament at the commis,.u.ent of wwar,
as to bow far it would avail Waif of any one of the
iefoUrces orthe nation. He agreed au: -
nature pas not eafy to be augmented, but n
was fo *dangerous as that Parliament ihould impole
any limit upon itklf with 'TAIRA to the nfe which it
Aould snake of any of there* refoorces, to anfwer
the.desaands which the public affairs asay create.
The Bill was then read a third time.

Lord TEMPLE propofed a elanfe, by way of
rider, for exempting the pay and allowAnces of fub•
ahem officers from this rax.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
faid, nothing was more lexceptionable than the ex-
emption of any particular clafs of men from a gene.
ral tax. If any relief was intended for the Gentle-
men who were the objea of the clank, this was the
worn way in which it could be given. -
Lord TEMPLE Paid his principal object in pro-
poling the claufe was to afcertain whether any relief
•as intended. If the- Right Hon. Gentleman would
fay there was fuch an intention, he would not prefs
the claufe.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
could not pledge himfelf, nor enter into any detail
on a point which lhould be made the objek of a fc-
parate confideration. It depended on a variety of
circumnances whether it would be prudent. to ;liclalge
the difpofition which he had no doubt every Gentle-
man had. to render the fituation of the clafs of Of&
cus alluded to more comfortable.

The queftion for bringing up the claufe was nega-
tived.—Adjourned.

.11/lA:BURGH MAILS.

CONSTANTINOPLI, JAN. 22.--The vidory which the
Pasha of Bagdad has gained in perfon, at the head
of his troops, over the Weclia'ai., is confirmed by late
accounts. As the greater part of tliefe enthutiatti
have been killed, taken, or wounded, it is fcarcely to
be expelled that they will be able to collect again in
any kind of a regular body.
The report that a new alliance has been concluded
between Ruflia and the Porte, and between thofe two
powers and England, has been officially contra-
ditled ; the Porte means only to continue and fulfil
the conventions the catered into with thofe powers
during the latt war, after the attack of the French.
FLORENCE, s. z.—A convention has been con.
eluded between Aullria and France, by which it
is agreed that no more troops (ball, on either fide,
be fent to Italy.
NA ruts, Faa. 6.—A Danilh (hip which arrived on
the 24th oidantiary, reports, that the met in the
Straits of Gibraltar, a Ruffian (quadron, and that the
1,4 d teen a Ruiragn this) of the line not far from
Meffina. .

Sc ua toast, Matte,' 1.--Letters from Genoa, of the
: eth February, five, that it has been agreed between
the French and Neapolitan Governments that, in the
pi-dent eireinnfiances, the King of Sudinia, who has
returned to Gaeta, (hall go on board a Ruffian fri•
gate and proceed to the ifland of Corfu.
Prince FIRDIVAND of Wittenberg, Governor of
Vienna and Lower Atifiria, h.ts fet out for Peterf-
burgh. The ()Ned of his journey, in all probability,
i$ ut a political nature ; and it is believed that he is
charged with a diplomatic mit:Goo.