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London, England, 1806-06-06 00:00:00

SCOTCH VISTILLFRISS.

The Wok having refolsed itfelfioto a Committee on the Scotch
Diftidery Dille. Mr. VA NSITTAICI. ihe inefficiency of the
preirnt mode of colleting the Du•ies on Scotch (piths, u the du-
tit3, being collceted not as in Beebe d, but eftimated from the ca-
pacity of the Mlle, were found to he much left than it was intended
to Import, as Maud of charging the Milos four times a week,
they ►ad now found a method of charging them twenty-four
times in an hour. The objcd of the change propnfed was ally to
coiled that duty in point of ha, which is now nominally col-
icdteil The Refolutiotts propaed by Mr. VA,i,ISIT were
agreed to. •
SCOTCH HIGHWAYS.

Sir JOHN SINCLAIR rob: to'make hit rromifed motion re.
(pettily the Highways In Scotland. After tome gem:rat m.ferva-
lions, the lion Baronet moved, that a Committee be appointed to
take into conll:leration the (rectal AUts refitting the Highways.
Mr. CIIRWpN feconded fuggefted the pro-
priety of wending the meafurc to the United Kingdom at large,
which was accordingly ordered, aud a Committee gppointa, con-
or County Members only.
tap* 'Arne.
Lord CASTLEREAGH moved for a copy of a
letter from the Secret Committee of the Court ct
Direetors, dated Dec. 4, ißco, to the Government
of Bengal, relative to the affiirs of Oodc.
Mr. PAULL had no objection to the produaion
of the letter; hut thought that the papers ordered to
he produced in May ifos, Ihould alto he brought
forward. He moved that a return be made forthwith.
Lord CASTLEREAGH law nothing objection-
able in the produttion of there papers, but took that
opportunity to fay, that the 'cation why Come papers
had been kept back was, that the Board of Confront
had conceived that they would give improper infor-
mation to the enemy, and that they contained revere
rctir ;lions, which ought not ro be made public, upon
the private charaEter of the Nabob Vizier.
Lord MORPETH, in this refpee, confirmed the
Ilatement of Lord Cadlereagh.
Mr. PAJJLL Paid, flat it appeared, from oth:r
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Lent:yea
4sieinantreliferhoraed thcre:Tifidnenrefed, thattha tthteheMatirlibtiossltett;
among the moil coma and dignified of all the
Princes in India, before he was forced into thole trea-
ties. All the refledions (as they were called) upon
his puivate charaaer were, that after his misfortunes
he had addifted himfelt to the unprincely propenfity
of eating opium to barufh care. If this was difho-
nourable in a Prince, it was infinitely more clifhonono.
able in thole who drove him to defpair, and obliged
him to banith care as well as he coul.l.
The papers moved for were then tn.2tred.
Mr. PAULL then moved, that the Mottle fltonld,
on Tuefday the loth of June, refolve idol( int* a com-
mittee, to hear evidence on the charge again!! Mar-
quis Welleiley, relative to Oude. He alto handed to
the Speaker fome other motions refimAing the charge.
The SPEAKER informed the Honourable Mem-
ber, that by the rules of the Houk, he conceived
himfelf not at liberty to put the quellicn on his firif
motion, as the Houle had already, nn the motion of
a Noble Lord (Lord Temple), fixed a I,ner day fur
hearing the charge. It watcufloottry to %"10°Pone
, bufinefs to a later day than what Ives fiat se ,-bat
he had never known an inflance of arpointing
1 er period.
Sir A. WELLESLEY hoped, that ft might be
.pnifible to have the evidence examined before the day
that was fixed for difpofing of the charge. He had
hoped that the Houk would have come to a final
vote upon it upon the day fixed ' • if this, however,
were not now poffible, be trifled the Hon. Member
would at leaß proceed in the bufinen, fo that the
Houle fhnuli come to its vote in chi pork of the
prefent &Stn.
Mr. Secretary FOX Paid, that however natural it
was for the friends of the Noble Lord to with for a
speedy determination, it would not be poffible to have
any fueh pledge given ; es, if the evidence was to be
examined at the Bar of the Houfe, it would be im-
Poffible for any one to Rate precifely how long filch
examinations might neceffarily continue.
Mr. PAULL obferved, that there was no reafon to
rufpell him of witting delay, as, in order to avoid that
imputation, be had proceeded more rapidly than any
other perfon in (ironer eircumftaoces.
Mr. FRANCIS could not conceive, that hearing
evidence in fupport of a charge was equivalent to the
entering into the confideration of it, in the fenfe of the
motion which had been made by a Noble Lord (Lord
Temple) ; he thought it might as well be contended
that the printed evidence should not by put into the
hands of MeMbers before that day.
Mr. Sedretary FOX (aid, the forms of alto Hours
made a great difference between written evidence 4.1
oral tefilmony. "The very idea of oral evidence re•
quired, that it Ihould not be given a log time before
the quellion was to be decided, but that the queflion
Ihould be confidered, while it was Ira in the minds
of thofe who wets to decide. He thought the better
way 'would be, that, on the day fixed for the cot&
deration of the charge, Which was Wednefday the
e Bth, the Hon. Gentleman &mild then bring forward
his evidence in fupport of it.
Mr. PAULL acquiefced in that opinion, and
moved for the attendance of the following perfOns on
that day, to give their evidence :
Lord Vircountrazottrourn, Sk Ammer C
Lieutenant Coked Kornai, Major General P. Sr Jolts,
Wziasar Wazour.Eki air Ricotta STIACIIISIFOOd
0400 a Al.llLlMilit Km.
On the mention of Sir R. Smelter, _ _ _

Sir HENRY STRACHEY obferved, that it would
be impeffible for him to attend, as be was under or-
ders for India, on the putllic tervice, and was to go
away in a few days ; he hoped, that he could be
examined privately before that time.
The attendance of the other perfons mentioned by
Mr. PAULL was then ordered.
Mr. PAULL' then moved for Accounts of the
actual Rate of the European Regiments, and of the
Bengal Cavalry, from the year t 7911 to 1799 ; as alto
the expence of a fingle Company of Artillery em-
ployed that year in the Nizam s Country.
There papers were tben ordered.
Coll TRAM

The Houfe, on the Motion of Sic JOHN NEW-
PORT, refolved into' a Committee to take into con.
federation the propriety of a motion for leave to bring
in a bill to eftablith a free intereotsrfe between Great
)3dt:in ind'lreland, in the mutual export and import
of Certain fpecier of grain between the two countries.
The Hotfe aecordintry refolved into a Committee,
Me. Hobhoofe in the Chair.
Mr. FO§TER rofe and obferved, that there were
forne difficulties in the way of facts a bill, which, un-
lefs fatistadorily obviated, would prefent infurmoun-
table oblations tolts being palled into a law. At
plefent the corn trades of both countries were regu-
lated 'under Ads of Parliament refpedively, which
eltablifhed in each country an average rate of price
for the different fpecies of grain, which average be-
irig attained in the home market, the ports were
clofed. againft exportation, and opened for importa-
tion ; and below which price exportation was per-
mitted, and importation precluded. This regulation
was made with a view to prevent an exceffive price
of the neceffsry of life to the home confumer ; and
at the fame time, to allow every rcafonable advantage
to the agricultural interefls in each kingdom. Now,
6y the propofed bill, as far as he was enabled to
conjalure, although the price of corn in England
fhould be above the average which admitted of
exportation, yet the price in Ireland might be fo
touch cheaper, as to admit the continuance of ex-
ports him thence; and therefore by the propoled
bill, w.iich lie underllooil was to allow the free in•
terchange of corn between both countries without
bounty or duty, the Englifh merchant who wilhed to
elude the law, and export Britith corn to foreign
countries, would have nothing to do but confign it
through the medium of Ireland ; and vice veils, fo
might the Lids merchant elude the law of that coun-
try, by exporting through England. The only mode
by which, :ii his contemplation, filch mifchievous
confequences could be avoided, would be to teltrain
and regulate the corn trade of both countries, by one
general average from the mars of prices in LAI'. The
average in England was taken from a comparifon of
twelve dittrids : the Scota trade was regulated by
the Britilh ftandard, and the Irifh by an average of
the prices in every part of the kingdom. Now, by
regulating the general export rate in all the ports of
the United Kingdom; from an average of the whale
mats of prices colledively, the evil would be obviated,
which would otherwife be unavoidable, under the
propofed bill.

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FRIDAY,
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS '
Itcduced jot 6o.Confole, for
• PRICE OF S MCI
3 per Cent. Red Ana 33160
3 pa Cent. Coot that
4 per Crtat 7711
y per Cent Navy that
Long Ano. 17 3-161

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DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
>r opening, 64—.0mnium at.
KS YESTERDAY
India Sands, to is. diE
Eichcquar Bins. par 21. dIL
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Cod for ace. &i f,

We have received Paris Journals to the sgth ult.
and Dutch to the 111 ha but they do not prefent
much novelty. The accounts from Bavaria are very
contradidory : the letters from Auglburgh late, that
General Anozsoss:, on palling through Brannan,
announced to the troops in that garrifon, that they
were to hold themfelves in readinefs to evacuate that
fortrefs ; while, on the contrary, the letters from
Stutgard mention, that the French were tranfporting
their magazines of batik to that town. The
French do not appear much difpofed to retire from
the Empire. Avesta au has hired a boufe for the
rummer, in the vicinity of Frankfort ; many of the
Officers belonging to his army have been joined by
their families ; and there is every appearance, that it
is not their intention, fpeedily, to ralinquifis the com•
fortable quarters in which they are ellabliffied.

The new Conititution for Holland has not yet
been promulgated. The Members of the Govern
meat were affembled at the Houfe in the Wood, on
the adth ult. where the plan brought from Paris the
preceding evening by Fearer, the Adjutant of
Admiral Vsewsus, was fabmitted to them for the

porpofe of receiving their final determination. As
foon as they had fignifled their concurrence. of which
little doubt was entertained, it was fuppofed the New
Conftimtion would be again fent back to Paris for
the acceptance of King Louts, and the guarantee of
NA►ocsoN.

The Paris papers contain intelligence from Naples
of the gth ult. but they are filent refpethng the pro-
grefs which has been made in the liege of Gaeta.—
!Gag Joserx was to make his triumphal entry into
Naples on the tomb of month. Some hundreds of
difaffeeled Neapolitans were fent off to Piedmont; no
vc t y conviacing proof of that general and entbufiallic
u.ith which the new Monarch was Paid to be every
:eccived.

1 eflerday afternoon arrived at the houfe of Mr.
Ni sacs., Portman-fquare, the Right Honourable the
Earl of ELGIN, the Right Hon. the Earl of YAR-
MOUTH, and two Eons of the late General Astra-
camas's, having been releafed from their captivity
in France. The Cartel which brought the above
Noble Perfonages, is alto Paid to have brought ad-
vices of a Pacific Nature, and frefh Overtures from
BoAAAAATS t but to this rumour, we attach very
:Jule credit.
The Britifb Refident at Perlang (Sumatra) lately
fcized a Native Chief, named Marra Bnogfoo, tinder
f trifling charge, and fent him by fea for trial at
fiencoolen. Boogfoo was taken on his ;mirage by a
French privateer,and carried to Batavia,from whence
:le fent to Calcutta a report of 11', cafe. The Gover-
.,•n Genera], after a careful inquiry, ordered the in-
, ,•ed Ciiief to be recondutied to Pedang, and reins-
sorted to the full amount of the lots he had futtained.