Star.
London, England, 1801-06-30 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF bOVIMONS.

Hayes's Divorce Bill was read a fecond time, and committed
for to-morrow.
Mr. VAWIITTART prefented the Accounts ordered by the
Houle on the motion of Mr. Robfon, refpeeting the Notion
Lilt, and the Subfidies panted during the prefent War to Fo-
reign Powers.
An Malin& was prefented from the Secretary of State's Of-
fice of the Anfwers and Returns mide under the Population
Bill, which was ordered to be printed.
Mr. RossoN Moved the printing ache Penal* W• 3 and the
Account of Loans and SubGdies, which was ad
The Bill for removing the &he of Downing College wee read
a fecond time.
Mr. Alderman Cuar is moved that Connie] tumid be called
in upon a Petition which hail been printioutly prefented apinft
the Bill.
Some onverfation meted between Mr. Alderman Curds,
Mr, Charles Dundee, the Attorney General, and Mfr. Beane.
when the Motion was negatived, and the Bill committed to a
private Committee to meet to-moyrow morning.
The kith Indemnity Bill was read a third time and pdlltd.
The Alien's Smutty Bill went through a Conisialttee, and
was afterwards mad a third time and pared. • • '
A 'name from the Lords informed the Houle, that their
Lordfhips had agreed to the Clergy's Refacnce Bill, to the
Malta Trade, and American lateroaurfit Bill, and to feveral
other public and private Bills.

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FINANCE.
.7 - The Order of the Day to refurne the adjourned
debate on the Financial Refolutions being read,
The CHANCELLOR of the Eaten toy sa rote and
Paid, he had forborne to make any obfcrvations
upon thefe till they fhould have been loins time
before the Houfe. Even now he Mould occupy
the attention of the Houfe for a very few minutes,
He allowed that the Refolutions of the Hon. Gen-
tleman were in general accurate, and fairly drawn
from the papers on the table. There were lonic
points on which he conceived him to be wrong ;
but thefe were in general very trifling, and he
thought it would be wafting the time of the Houfe
to point them out and enlarge upon them, His
41aal objefiion to the Hon. Gentleman's ilatement
was, that it did not go far enough. The public
were entitled to a more comprehenfive and fads-
faftory view of the finances than this prefented to
them. The Right Hon. Gentleman then proceed-
ed tp fitgply thefe deficiencies by comparing, in
the firft place, our fituation in 1786. with oar fitua-
lion now. The finking fund he calculated was then
eftablithed, and was as one to 338.0 f the national
debt. The finking fund was making fuch rapid
propels that it was now fully as one to 73 of the
national debt. He congratulated the country very
warmly upon this favourable (late of things, and
proceeded to (fate other circumifances not lefs fads-
faaory, which he contended to be a proof that
though our burdens have increafed, our npulence
has increafed in a Rill greater proportion. He
dwelt chiefly upon the increafed produce of the
permanent taxes, and the immenfe amount of
im-
ports and exports. Agriculture, he laid, was
slikewife rapidly improving, and every thing af-
forded lymptoms of growing profperity. He felt
for the harelfhips ofindividuals, but he rejoiced to
think of the great refources of the public. He al-
leered the expenditures this year would amount to
very searixtraine millions, But he reminded the
Houfe that a very confiderable part of it did not
come from the pockets of the people, but was
railed in the way of a loan. The peace eftablifh-
ment he calculated at twenty-eight millions, and
beyond this the permanent taxes would yearly
produce 600,0001. He next touched upon the in-
come tax, which he took at five millions. The pro-
duce was (mailer than wes expelled; but he never
looked to the tax but with pleafure. He thuddeied
to think what might have been the confequencehad
it not been impaled. Government might not have
been able to borrow money on terms Iliort of ruin-
ous. At all events the expence prevented had been
immenfe. The interefts upon theloans made would
have been above the prefent amount of the
and this load would have been perpetual. Whit-
ther the commercial interef . contributed their fair
proportion he would not take upoti.him to fay;
but of this he would athire the Houle, that if any
one fhould davit; a mode in which the tax might
be levied more equally, the plan fhould have
firmeit fupport, and he &mild look upon the pro-
pofer of it as a public benefatlor entitled to hie
gratitude. But no tax had beenfuggefted by Which
commercial men would lie obliged to contribute
more liberally ; no tax ever elated which drew lo
Much from them as the prefent. He could not
think of ra(hly renouncing a tax which had pro-
duced fueh beneficial ereas. It had railed the
,rocks from-47 to 60, and thus bad rendered ler-
vice to every order in the community. The landed
intereft came in for their (hare of its advantages
from, the facility with which it enabled them to
borrow money on mortgar,
oats want to do although t eircircumitances were
balm degree deranged. To the operation of the
which they might
meafure the whole nation was greatly indebted.
He Paid that he had been lately obliged to loot
more narrowly into the finances of the country
than he had ever done before, and the inveftiga-
don had turned out very much to his fatisfaelion.
Rigid °economy would be neceffary, botthat would
be fuffieient, and there was not the leaft room for
defpondence. With prudence, fteadinefs and te-
folution, we would rainy overronse all our difficul-
ties. Betides the fecurity of this country in the
'excellence of its Connitution, its local fituation•
and tit; f?irit of its ialtabitasta, it had fits
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Means fufficient to affect its•rights and to retain h-
felf in the high rank which it had long held among
the nations of the earth.
Mr. Timmy entered into a very minute confi-
deration of the Refolutions moved by the Right
Hon. Gentleman and himfelf. If the Right Won.
Gentleman's argument, concerning the proportion
the finking fund bears to the national, proved any
thing, it proved that our fituatior, was now thrice
as favourable as it was in the year i 786. He
thought the grounds on-which the Right Hon.
Gentleman had argued for the profperity of the
country, extremely fallacious. While our bur-
dens were permanent, our refourccs, he feared,
were many of them temporary. Upon the con-
elufion of a peace, he contended, we should be ri-
valled in every market by France and Holland ;
and it was impoffible the permanent taxes would
be nearly fo produaive. . He blamed the Right
Hon. Gentleman for an overfight in making no
charge for bounties. The bounty on rice alone
would certainly amount to tso,oool. befides thofe
on different kinds of grain. Money laid out in this
way could not be grudged, but it ought to be car-
ried to the account. Ire calculated the peace elle-
eftablilhment for tome years after the war, at
39,000,0001. and !hewed that without any new ex-
traordinary expence it would be neceffary to lay
on heavy additional taxes. He fpoke very forci-
bly againd the income tax, and denying that it
produced the good effefts afcribed to it—cia
it with partiality, oppreffion, and injußicel.rigle
cenfured the fanguine manner in which the Right
Hon. Gentleman (poke of our fituation. It was
cruel, he Paid, thus to delude the people, when it
was evident that they mutt fnffer (till greater pri-
vations. He faw no caufe for defoondence, but
loon grand meafure of finance was indifpenfibly
teceffary. A more favourable opportunity to take
it might never recur, and our difficulties might be
encreafed by every day's delay. It was idle to ca-
pe& that things, would come round of themfelves.
While it was cnminal to fpread unneceffary defpon-
dence, it was criminal to feed unfubflantial hopes.
The Ca...am:Loa of the ExcHauyea Paid that
one error feemed to-pervade the Speech of the Ho-
nourable Gentleman who had juft fat down, and
that was that it reprefented him as judging too
lightly or too confidently of the financial Rate of
the country, and as not looking at it with that fe-
rioufnefs and folicitude that it called for. He
Should be forty that the Route or the public at
large Should entertain fuch an opinion of him.—
There was no room for defpondency on this point.
The tiatement made by the Hon. Gentleman him-
felf was fully fufficient to preclude any fuch
gloomy impreffion. What he faid, and what he
Intended to be nnderfltxxl to fay, was, that with
prudence, fleadinels and fortitude, all our financial
difficulties might loon be furmounted. The more
he looked into the refourees of the country, the
Snore he was confirmed in that confolatory and
confident hope. As to the Income Tax, he thought
it a proper meafure of finance, and one that should
now be perfilled in : • but as to its duration, he
mull remind the Houk, that he had expreffed no
opinion. Indeed that was a point on which hie
mind was not made up. The Right Hon. Gen.
tleman then proceeded to obkrve on-tome inaccu-
racies in the calculations of the Hon. Gentleman,
efpeciallyrefpeaing the defalcation of the Revenue,
and the proportion of the Vote of Credit to be paid
by Ireland- On this latter point a long converfa-
tion enfued between Mr. Tierney, Mr. Corry, and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer; after which—
Mr. WINDHAM role, not to enter into any finan.
vial dircuffion of the fubjea more immediately be-
fore the Houfe, but to animadvert on another that
had collaterally been introduced into the debate—.
he meant the fubjea of general politics, and the
probable Slate of the country at the conclufion of
peace, in alluding to which the Honourable Gen-
tleman thought proper to infinuate that we Should
be obliged to furrender many, or tome of the pof-
feffions which we had acquired during the war,
without, at the fame time, holding out any hope
that the enemy would be obliged to make any cot.-
refpording concelfion on his part. The Honour-
able Gentleman even added that no man in his
fenfcs, no fober thinking man could bring himfelf
to think 'that we Should he allowed to keep what
we are already in poffetfion of. His principal ob-
jet in rifing was to avow himfelf to be one of there
irrational men who was adverfe to making thee
cellions, and he was the more anxious to expreh
his fentiment on this point, as a general opiniost
feemed induftrioully to be fpread, and in force
meafure to be credited, that we were prepared to
make the concefficrns alluded to. Agamft that
opinion and the principle on which it retied, be
mull beg leave to enter his proteft. This indeed
was not the proper occafion to enter into thofe did
euffions' but as far as any opinion was delivered
upon them, he, for one, mull proteft againti
Was that immenfe acceffion of power already
gained by France to be Rill farther encreafed by
carrion, to be made by us ? That incteak of power
had already enabled France to threaten, and more
than threaten, the independence of Europe; and
Should not this be a motive with us to retain what
we poffefs, in order to form tome kind of balance
againft that enormous power ?—are we to contri-
bute to make unequal what is already dreadfully
unequal ; or are fentiments expreffive of readinefs
to dc• fo, fit to be held out at fo critical a conjunct.
tare of our affairs as the prefent ? The principles
uttered by that Honourable Gentleman at fuck a
moment, were of the utmoft importance; it was'
important to know by what number defcrip-
dons of per Cons in this country they were enter-
tained; it was at leaft material for him to declare
that he did not with to be included among them.
Mr. Thames, laid, that he had fludioufly and
cautioufly abttained from every political topic, and
from every thing 'that could lead to a difculLou of
that nature.- It limed, however, •that Come ex.
preffion had efcaped him on which the Right Hot.
Gentleman thought proper to lay hold. That cot
preffion infinuated that we ought to be read/ $0
conclude peace even by making great conceffiate,
to France; for he believed it to be the general °plot
nion that no attempt Should be made to keep the
whole of the colonies of which we were now in pa&
rzOion. Such an attempt would bc impolitic is

many points of view, and it could not fail of
citing the envy and jealoufy of the whole world.
But fuch is not the difpofition of the country, and
if it was, the enemy would never agree to it. But
it feems the Right Hon. Gentleman is prepared to
infill upon keeping them all, to form a balance
againfl the increafed power of France. Yet the
very fame Right Hon. Gentleman, when Minillet,
did fpecifically propofe to give up every thing, ex-
cept the Cape of Good Hope and Trincomale.—
This was the propofal of Minifiers in the negotia-
tion at Lille. What new light has fince bud} in ,
upon the Right Hon. Gentleman's mind ; or what
has excited his new alarm at the power of France ?
Until he knew this, he fhould fay no more ; for he
could not conceive how that which was proper
during the negotiation at Lille, fhould be improper
now.

Mr. Virtannest Paid, no new light had broke in
upon him, nor any difference of opinion of which
he meant to avail himfelf. He had no difficulty
in (Wing, that it mutt happen in every Cabinet,
that it was irnpoffible the fame opinion could al-
ways concur. In (peaking of the fincerity of the
Cabinet with refpeet to the expediency of the pro-
pofed terms of Peace, it muff always be underftood,
of the majority of that Cabinet, nor would he dif.
femble, but that on many points he had differed
from thofe with whom he alted; and, if afked,
why, differing with them, he continued to a&
with them. he mull fay, thio was not a time for
entering on fuch a fubjett, otherwife. he could
fatisfattorily anfwer Inch a quellion; it was enough
to fay, that his views at the time referred to, were
by no means different from thofe he now encl.-
tained.

Mr. WHITIRIAD could not help expreffing his
furprife that the Right Honourable Gentleman
fhould have continued to ad with colleagues who
differed with him in a point that fo materially af-
feeted the fafety of the country.
The motion for the previous miellion was then
put on each of Mr. Tierney's Refolutions' and car-
ried without a divifion; after which the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer's Refolutions were put and
agreed to.
Some converfation next enfued between Mr.
Vanfittart, and Mr. Wm. Lufhington, refpeeting
an erroneous ftatement which had gone abroad,
of the opinion delivered in a former debate by the
latter Gentleman on the fubjeCt of the Income
Tax, as chargeable on perfons eligaged in trade,
iu which Mr. Lufhington correCted the error and
re- fated his opinion.

LONDON.

TUESDAY. JUNE 30.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Reduced 64 ji—Confols for opg. 62}—
New 3 per Cam. 94.—Ontnium 91 so.

Yellen:lay evening was publifhed the following
LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
DOW 31110•3111.12 T, JOU 39, /901,

A Difpatch, of which the following is a copy,
has this day been received from the Earl of EL-
° in, by the Right Honourable Lord Haw it ESE Ty ay,
his Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for Po.
reign Affairs.

coiT OT • Lima now LORD LLOIN TO LORD
imwssinuay, bATID CONSTANTINOPLE, NAT 13•

My Lord•—An Officer is arrived from the CAP.
TARN Pasty• with the intelligence that General
Hurt Hinton had marched from Rofetta on the
Bth inti. with four thoufand Britilh troops, in com-
pany with a corps of Turks of equal force under
the command of the CAPTAIN PASHA, and on the
9th attacked the French near Rahmanich. The
enemy were driven in.; and in the courfe of the
night they retired towards Cairo, having left a
(mall garrifon in the entrenchments of Rahma-
nich. On the loth, the fort furrendered, and the
combined force then proceeded towards Cairo,
having concerted their movements with theGRAND
Vizisa, who was at El Hanka, a pofition four
leagues diflant from Cairo, in a north-call direc-
tion. Our lofs at Rahmanich is tinted not to ex-
ceed thirty men.
The Turkifh Officer reports, that a reinforce-
ment of three thoufand Britilh troops had arrived at
Aboukir, about the 6th of May. (Signed) 11.0111.

. Admiral Lord Natson arrived yeDerday at
Yarmouth in the Byre Brig. The veffel had his
Lord(hip's flag flying, and every one was eager to
fee the Hero land. He was received on fhore with
the mofi enthufiaitic 'demonffrations of joy—the
crew of the Karr cheering, bells ringing, colours
,lying, &c.
His Lordfhip immediately on his landing went
'to the Hofpital, to vifit the brave fellows under
cure there, who were wounded in the battle off
Copenhagen--a circumftance which gave infinite
joy and fatisfaelion to the crowd, who hailed his
return.
As his Lordfhip's flag continued flying on the
KITE when our letters left Yarmouth, the inhabi.
SSW entertain a hope that he means to flay there
Alai days : it is probable, however, that the hero
of Aboukir and Copenhagen will fpeedily make his
appearance in London,
Though the French official papers affeBed louse
time ago to difcredit the numerous hollile pre-
peratiots
going on in the ports of France, all the
accounts from the Continent Carve more and more
to confirm the fad, and that fimilar priporatioas
an going ft is the ports of Mahal sled grab,

and even fome of the Italian. A letter from Ant-
werp lays, 25,000 men are ready to fail from Brett,
and 22,000 flora other ports ; and the Ckf du Ca-
binet, the demi-official French paper Pays, " great
!matures of hoitility are preparing with as much
vigour as ability."

But what is more to be relied Upon, the accounts
picked up by the Channel fleet agree in Rating,
that the Breit fleet, conflfting (with the Spani(h
(hips) of 26 fail of the line, has tg,cx>o troops on
board ; that the feamen had been paid up all their
arrears ; and that it was expeded the (hips would
watch the firs opportunity of getting out. Such is
the fubflance of letters received at Falmouth from
fome of the Officers of our fleet, who Rate, that it
is believed this force is deftined for Egypt.
Minifters are well informed refpeting there pre-
parations, and in confequence equal adivity pre-
vails in our own ports, fo that whether Egypt or
our awn coaftsbe the enemy's objed,theywill find
us prepared.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS THIS DAY..—Wind S.

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I Dublin
I Waterford
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FALMOUTH, JUNE 47.

This day arrived a Mail from America, brought
by his Majefty's Packet Maar, Capt. THOM, sow :
on the 12th of April the (poke his Majefty's frigate
CLEOPATRA, bound to Halifax : fhe had been on
(bore on the Little Bahama Bank ; and, in order
_to lighten her, moil part of her guns were thrown
overboard; fhe arrived at New York on the 19th
of April. The LADY 1-loIART Packet arrived from
Halifax on the 12th of May, (he failed from New
York on the 14th, and arrived at Halifax on the
24tb, where (he found his Majefty's (hip ST. Ai.-
amis, three frigates, and two (loops of war, (he
failed for England on the 28th, and arrived at Fal-
mouth this day. Lord Hamar STEWART is come
over paffenger in the MARY, but we do not hear
that (he has brought ,any particular news.—Sailed
the ALERT cutter, Lieut. —, on a cruize; and
the American brig James, Captain Psi-KRICK, for
Liverpool.