Star.
London, England, 1807-11-21 00:00:00

DEAL, NOVEMBER zo.

Th.: tremendous gale of this day has carried two
vefieli, from the Downs, on the Goodwin Sands,
where they were IA with all their crews; our boars
could tender them no affidance.

Remain in the Downs his Majefly's flaps, &c. as
per IA ; alfo the Diana, Aylward, for Jamaica ;
and Samuel, StIGHRUE, for Trinidad.

Wind W.S. W. blows hard.
ADMIRALTY couptr, DOCTORS COMMONS.
FKIDAY, ti‘liEhlii!Ot 20.

- • This lay,'
,the Right Hcn. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT
prneejfeti to me. adjudication (,f the following cafe4:
Little VeiTam, Frown maiter.--m5 American lade
with a carg • of variott: merchar.dize, and on .4 veyage from thercc
to Vatolnv Fit, in cal,. that port was not blockaded, Ws Vcaptured
by the 11,tr, v p:ivateer, on tufi•icion of attsmoting to break the
bh ade tl.e hfl,e, and carried into Plymouni. The Court was
...or opinion in this rail. front tie evidence p .tlueed, that the faa
was cicilrly eihablithed. on the part of the eaptors, and therefore
pror Atoc,..d it to be a breach of the blockade. and accordingly con-
demned the (hip and that part of the cargo belot:ging to the
owner thereof ; but took time to confider ef the remaining part
of t!.. cargo bcln;.;,ing to other claimants.
t he Drpatch, I(laver matter.—ibis veitl, under American
colour:, with a cargo of various articles, was alto captured and
br,..!gla in on the fame grounds as the former cafe. The Court,
atter hrarirg the.argurnents of Cottitfel rata both fides, gave the
claimants till next Court day for turthcr explanation.
• Philipfburp,h, Loffingwell marter.—This Ameezan veffel, with
rut ar. c:lff,:e, and hides, wa., proceeding on a voyage front tence
to a poi tin Furope at the time of her capture. in this cafe, the
property being clearly ani futhciently proved. both as to the ilip
and cargo, the Court pronounced rcflitution of the fame.

It was ye(lerday dated that an • American (hip,
called the Vietory, has been taken in the Downs by
a Franc!) privateer, and carried into Cherbourg.
Captain Wrirrav, of the Three Friends, arrived at
Hull, from the Baltic, dates, that he patri:d four
Britilh gun brigs on the Bth or 9th inaant, heeling
through the Grounds.
The Johanna, SARGENSAN, from St. Cmix, is
detained by the AC-five ptivateer, of London. and
was (poke with on Saturday lad by the Lively priva-
teer, of Guernfcy, 121 leagues B.'"hy E. off the
Deadmar.'s, endeavouring to get into DM tmouth.
Yederday fe'nnight, the body of a dead man was
picked up on the beach at Kingfd about two
mile% dittant from Deal : he had been apparer.tly a
fcafaring man, and was dreffed very {lightly in a
Guerlifey jacket, tied chute round the writ's, with
purple ribband, canvafs trowfcrs, a red filk handker.
chief, and a griped cotton (hilt, but had no hat or
(hoes on, nor any thing about him, to denote who he
was, or what he belonged to, except the initials W. M.
marked upon the f)re finger and thumb of his kft
hand. atui W. Mack on his Ihirt q but the exalt name
could not 11 learnt from the letters being nearly worn
out. It is-probable from the manner in which'he was
clz ent that he.had been endeavouring to ['win) a(hore
from fume (hip, and in the attempt_ was drowned.—r
The ouoy itasinot.betn owned, and was interred at
Ringwould on Sunday.

LAND•TAX ROOMS.

GUILDHALL YARD, OCTOBER 211.

At a General Meeting of the Commi&ners for
railing the Milled Taxes, with the tcn per cent.
thereon, in the City of London, convened for the
cfpecial purpofe of taLing itta_conlideration the Bill
(which wA ordered by -thr Horobtable Honfe of
et.mmons to be 'minted on the Bth of Augnft) to
amend and regulate the affeffMent and Collation of
the Allred taxes:

The following Reclotionsrnoved by Mr. Baooms
WITTS, were onanirnonily agreed to:
That the Cormuirtoners are defirotts of declaring their readinefs
to lend every affillanee in their pewee to promote an adequate and
prompt Colledioo of the Affeffed Taxes, at this period of peculiar
difficulty and danger; but are of optnion that if the Bill to amend
and regulate the al:ferment and colledtim of the affeffel taxes,
which was ordered by the Horourable tioufe of Commons to be
priatel on the Eth of Auguit, 18 37, fhould paffed into a law, it
will totally deftroy the mild and equittnie fyitem which bat IrAg
prevailed in the affeffment and ad/alien cf the duties it refers to,
by' abolithing the office of Affdfor, and limiting the powers of the
Comw.iffionerx by depriving them of their Clerk, and platting the
whole management in infp,ctors and Surveyors appointed by the
Treafury ; and it appears to the Commiffioners that fuch arrange-
ments cannot fail to vertafe the prefect clamor agaloft Infpee-
t ors aid surveyors, and tvdl alto tend to the iaconvetlience of his
Majtily's fabjeds.

1 hat it appears to the Commiffioners,that although (onset:wing
of =pence may accrue to Government by the abolition ot the
three-halfpence in the pound allowed clothe Commitioners Clerks,
under the 434 ota m. cap a6r, on the net ante paid to the
Receiver-General, yet that the Calories and incidental ea?Coces of
the Surveyors and Infpedtmo. in c irrying the proporal ASR into
execution, will probably be tally equal to, it it do not cued
amount of the prefent poundage allomd to the Clerks.
That, in the npition of the Commit loners, the mede of affef-
Eng by the Crown Officers In place of the Aceffors of the Diftrict,
will tend to incteafe the number • f foircharges already the fubjea
of much complaint, .a, it will be the intcrcit of the Surveyor that
the affriftuents should bc'incomplete, inafrouch as his remunera-
tion is to be derived in part from his adtivity and diligence in
making furchargei ea his own affiffinents, which mutt be allow-
ed to be a duty of a molt anomalous nature

TIE it appears to the Comnifaioncrs that by depriving them
of having the backs of affellmults depofited with their Clerk,
much inconveniei ve and trouble will accrue tothe Commitlionors
who hear the appt..is, as n.ell as to the individuals who are the
fubjedis of affeirmell, and who have frequent and dmoft daily oc-
cations to refer to the affeffin_Tts, to be fatisEed that the demands
made on them by the Collcdtors correfpond with the determina-
tion of the Comonflioners.

That the Commiffioners are of opinion that the benevolent in.
tendons of the Legiflature, exprefred by the A et of 43d George Ili.
cap. 16 t, that the peralties incurred by omiffions may be replayed
by albdavit, will be in a great meafure fruftrated by the provifions
of the Bill now under *nib& ration, lie there will then he no office
where the individuals can apply for i.,torma!ii. n and in:ln:Eli:xis
to mike out their afbdavits. and to certify them to the Comma*.
boners; and it cannot be imagined that the Surveyors and infpec-
ton will lend their aid to draw the aibdaiits which militate fo
much againft their Intereft, and to which they have always !hewn
themfelves fo averfe.

That it appears to this Comratflion that great ineenvenience and
much probable loft will accrue to the fcveral wards of this city,
from the Coiledtors bonds of fccurity being drawn by, and lodged
with the Surveyors and Infpedors,inftead of being depollted.with
the Commiffioners as heretofore ;and that taking into conlideris-
don the very large amount of ATeffed Taxes at prefrnt ruffed
on its inhabitants, and that each ward or &aria istuade liable
for any defalcation or negled of their Colkditor, it is highly tea-
lo.!able 'hat the Conimiffintiers, adting in fosse mature as Trig- •
:ea 'or their chow citizens, Mould have the euftody of thecalien.
Zors. ”onus as well as a full and complete eontrool over them.
That the Cominiffinners are of opinion that much irrcgularity•
will occur if the enactments of the prefect Bill arc carried ip.o
force, by which Surveyors and Infpcaors are aatiarifed to peo.
cure 'he fignature of any two Commitlioners to the boas of
AMTment without calling a meeting of the CommilPoners, and
to make furcharges from time to time, and not at the tirecik dm,
prescribed by tn.- Aitt of the 43d Geo. 111. cap 99. and the Come
milbot;ers are all., opinion that much additional trouble will =Foe
to them in hearing appeals againft fuppiementary affdr,nentsoms•
finned by fuch furcharges, which are not dirzatd to be &Abed at
any particular period of the year.

That it appears to this Como,'&sr, that the proonfel alpha•
betictil arrangement of the occupiers as the haus of ail tf ,ent will
hr irsfficastous, and injurious to the revenue. as it is likely that
more -.trillions of perfona and property will accrue by tits; method
thau by the oftial progrcllive mod: of sillll nent, which. however,
in the orition of the Commiffiontis, may be greatly unproved by
an alpilatsetical
'That a Committee be now arpointed to confer with the Man-
eellor of the !':chequer upon the tubject of the 841. and to hate to
him thT objeetions of the commillionsrs.
That the laid Committee do curfitt of five Commilfionera.
That the following Commit:Liners he of the Committee :
DAVID JENNINGS, 1..ft1. HINRV BLAXLAND,E q•
Baranta I'NII•LU' WITTS, F.. 11. SAMUEL GOODISLIItIik,
JAMSS COLLINS, Efq.
By Order of the Conimiffinners,
JOSEPH BADEN NEWDICK, Clerk.

1 Itovat. HuNr.—Tuefday morning his MairtsrY'S
flag hounds weir taken to Salt Hifi for a day's di-
: verfion for the Duke cf CUMBERLAND, by order of
the Marquis CORNWALLIS, the Willer of his MAJNS.
TY'S Stag Hounds, loon wirer nine o'clock. Abqut
ten, the Duke of CUMBERLAND, the Marquis Coax-
watcts. and a numerous fic!4 of Gentlemen fportf-
, men, affembled at Salt Hill, whin,a-semarkably fine
1 deer was turned our of a cart for the day's fport.
' At liarting he (hewed ro,•ch amnfement, and went
I with great (peed actors fame fields towards Burnham,
i taking to the tight of Farnham ; making a double
back, he croffed the lath Road towards the Thames.
1 and fwam acrofs to the left of Maidenhead-bridge;
the fportfmen and hminds vaned him along Maiden-
head bridge, and renewed the chace acrofs the Old
Field, where the d:er was running with great fwift-:
nefs, by Wick, and through the inclofures, towardi
Maidenhead Thicket, taking his courfe through the.
wood, and over the hills towards Henley, mining ter
the right down the hill, Where he made for the
Thames, and croffed it to the left of the mills; the
fportfmen and hounds were ferried over at Henlty•
Ford ; after which the 1,,i1t was renewed,.and, after
fume excellent fport, the deer was takenileveral miles
beyond Great Marlow'. in Buckinghamfbirc, after a
tun of upwards of four hours.
L may he remembered, that the Snefe-of Mrs.
llstrsit., 1-1,-reer, in Thomas lireet,
Bristol, was eon•
fumed by fire, whilti the family was at worfhip on
aSunday evening The flames had made fuch inroad
in the interior before the alarm was fufficiently given,
that a fervant maid, the only refident M the houfe,
was awakened to a fenfe of her danger, in all appear-
aLce but too late ; the pons gill, in all the horrors
of defpair...llood at the garret window enveloped in
flames. Under there circumfiances, PEARCE, the
Game Chicken, was ken at the top of the adjoining
houfe, making his way to the parapet.wall, under
which the poor girl was ; then, to the furprife of all
who beheld, and at the extreme hazard of his own
life, he hung over the
parapet, clafp'd her wrifts in
his hands, urcw.her up to the place where he was,
and fo extricated her from a fituation too dreadful
almoft to Conceive. - . . . .

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