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ONLY 8,000 TICKETS.
NEW SMALL STATE LOTTERY, to be all
Drawn so early as TUESDAY, lOth of FEBlitUAllq.
WHEW,.
2 Prizes of A 20,000 ... are ... sC4o,fifib
2
4 ........ 1,900
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And 1,588 Prizes of XlOO, ace. fce.

T. FISH, (Contractor), sincerely thanks the Public for their
distinguished favours at his Hilly fortuuatoOffices, N 0.4, CORN-
;tut, and No. 9, Cm/ut:a-Caws. He invites their attention
to the Scheme of the present very Small Lottery, and bogs to state,
that although it consists of only Two Thirds the Number of
Tickets contained in the last Lottery, yet there are an equal
number•of Capital Prizes of X.:0,000 in It : this gives to Adven-
tVrers a much greater chance to obtain a Twenty Thousand
Pound Prize, than in any Lottery hitherto known. From the
very limited number of Tickets to meet the demand, an imme-
diate purchase at the above Offices is respectfully Advised, where
in the Lottery just finished, and in the Two last, T. BISH Sold
and Shared the following Capitals:
6,497 Class A - £20,000 1,853 Class B - .62,000
1,693 - A - 16,000 4,025 - C - - 1,000
3,349 - C - 15,000 1,825 - A - 1,000
• 3,363 - A - 5,000 1,825 . B •- • 1,000
.71 - A - 3,000 2,717 - A - 1,1100.
1,853 - A - 2,000 2,717 - B - i,•00
- &c. &c.

FRENCH PAPERS.

VIENNA, DECEMBER 21.

The Chiefs of the Russian army doubt the pacific
sentiments of the Grand Vizier, and imagine that he
intends to gain time and draw himself from the un-
fortunate situation in which he is placed.
The communications between the Turkish head-
quarters and Constantinople are open, but only for
correspondence, and the passage of couriers. This
correspondence is at present very active.
The Grand Vizier having been informed of the
birth of an heir the Ottoman Throne, acquainted
General Kutusow of it, who sent to compliment him
on an event so interesting to the Turks.
Dec. 2.S.—The following circular has been publish-
ed here :

By a Decree of the 18th of this month, his Impe-
rial Majesty having judged it indispensibly necessary
for the relief of the finances, and providing for the
necessities of the state, to raise the contribution, called
the Contribution of the Classes, with the addition of
50 per cent. and the Personal Contribution, during
the course of the military year 1812, has ordered that
these taxes shall be raised within the said year.
With respect to the two former of these contribu-
tions, it is the will *of his Majesty, that for what re-
gards the deniers per cent. the immunities, the fines,
and other objects of this kind, the regulations which
have hitherto subsisted, shall be observed, with the
following modifications. ••
1. The annual incomes, and the products of industry, shalt be
estimated and declared in value of money of Vienna, and the de-
niers per cent. shall be calculated in the llama manner.
2. The representations and declarations shall be remitted to
the Authorities, at the latest by the 15th of January, 1812, and
in general all the declarations shall be sent in by the Slat of /a-
nuary, 1812, to the persons appointed to receive them in every
province.
3. Two periods shall be fired for the payment of the contribn-
tion, called that of the classes, and the addition of 50 per cent.
viz. the 31st of March, and the 30th of June.

4. The personal contributions for the military year 1814, is
ilxed at one florin value of Vienna, and shall be paid in full by
the end of January, 1812.
ct to the personal contributions, the subsisting
be observed, except that there shall be only
Magistrates and Functionaries of the different
half per cent. instead of one per cent. of the per-
which shall be raised.
contribution and that of the classes
the same with respect to the essential
j have been since the year 1800; the
20th of August, 1806, and the circular
7uly of the same year, are referred to
, to which every one is expected exactly
The public is only informed that the
l'or the declarations and payments will
enforced, and those who shall fail there-
'tribute it to their own negligence if
ted to the penalties enacted by the
Experience having shewn, that for se-
: regulations with respect to the man-
ig up declarations have not been pro-
`, all proprietors of houses are warned
ialties provided by the regulations, to
all persons residing in their houses, de-
proper form, and to make known those
give them in. The declarations shall
I's baptismal name, his surname, and
)1* prot ession.

INGSIDN, JiIMAIC4.

OF ASSEMBLY, N0V.13, 1811.
according to order, resolved itself into
of the whole House, to inquire into, and
to consideration, the state of the island:
iv, fiom the Committee, reported two
the H( use, which lie read in l.'s place,
in at the table, where, being again stye-
_ as follow :
That it Li at tl.ir time expedient to eon;

+en the relations which have long subsisted
my and the parent state, and to give etivey alto
s most loyal inhabitants, notwithstandilittlitir
ituatton, to enable his Majesty to bring to a happy
'he important contest in which the British Empire
itocure tbr all his subjects the blessings of a se-
:ble peace.
That this House will vote and raise the supplies
ving to his Majesty's white troops, stationed in
pro:ection, to the number for which the faith
stands pledged, the usual subsistence for twelve
e 31st day of December next, and for keeping in
barracks built for their accommodat ion, anti furnishing
ts in their quarters and hospitals; also for allow-
tea the adslitioital pay and lodging-money, hereto-
:he House.
ion being made, to amend the said Re-.
ng out, alter.Ple first wot d, that," all--
words of the said Report, and instead
sert the following words:
_. duty of this House, as the Representatives of the
lainaica, to inquire into the causes which have reduced
cud irkibitants to a crisis of unparalleled dutnsr
devise means for th r alleviation of those evils;
iporary relief to the sacrors.
cent afflictions of this colony have been produced
politic measures, the effects of which were fore-
depreca,i.d, many y.at a- past, by this Hrntse, which, by
to its I.,:iritxls, will evidently appear; -but, notwitii-
many rept estntiu ions and repeated warnings to the
the mother country, of the inevitable cruise-

baleful nnasuret, yet they have been persisted in.
finally con.unnuated.
consequence of we'l-founded expectations, that some
be afforded to the sugar-planters, by remitting

a Certain portion of sugar, of Inferior quality, to be used in dis- ,
dilation ; and that proper regulations would be adopted to pro-
mote the use of rum in the army and navy, the House did again-
undertake to pay the usual expellees of the military istablishmint
of the island, to the 31st day of December, of the present year,
and endeavoured to make provision accordingly, by imposing
such taxes as were deemed to be the least oppressive, and bor-
rowing money on the public credit, in order io fulfil that engage-
ment; bet those hopes having proved illusory, the bill for per-
mitting and regulating the me of sugar in the distilleries, having
been rejected by the House of Lords, and the price of rum being
very considerably reduced, from the diminished consumption,
occasioned by the introduction of large quantities of French and
Spanish brandies, it is obvious, that the sugar properties are se
unproductive, that no profit is derived from those capitals by the
owners, on the contiary, they are daily sinking deeper Into debt,
and must eventually be ruined. Under such circumstances, the
House cannot directly impose taxes or the sugar planter, because.
it is evident, that he has not the means of paying them out of the
proceeds of his estate.
That, on a consideration of the circumstances of the coffee
planter, a scene presents itself, if possible, of a more distressing
nature than has previously been stated of the sugar planters.—
Coffee is not saleable in thd markets of the mother country.
The British merchant even refuses a consignment of. the article,
because, in place of its paying any thing to him, it occasions,
difficulty and embarrassment how to provide money to defray
the attendant charges of duty, freight, insurance, &c. &e. and,
therefore, he avoids the consignment, as a burthen instead of a
relief, consequently many of the coffee-planters are unable to
provide even the necessary supplies for their slaves front Great
Britain or elsewhere. For if he resorts to the stores in the
island to obrein the indispensible articles of cloathing, herrings,
salt, &c. Sts. which he is bound by the constit4ed slave law of
the island to furifsb annually, upon oath, the merchant or
storekeeper tells him that his coiree is worth nothing, and that
he cannot give credit to a man in such desperate drcumstances.
•It is therefore unnecessary to go into further detail, in order
to prove his inability to provide payment for any taxes ; for he
is posdvely unable to maintain himself and family, or his slaves;
and, if so cruel a policy should be exercised, as to impose the
burthen •f taxes on a man in this situation, the consequence
would be, that if be could not possibly prevent his property
from being levied on, that a slave, which had cost him A'l4o
or ael3o, would be brought to public sale, and actually sold for
sE4O or £5O, owing to the general distress of the country, and
want of cash.

That it be recommended to the House to send a message to his
Honour the Lieut -Governor, informing him that, owing to the
distressed and calamitous state of the Island, it is no longer able
to support the expences of the military establishment, as usually
heretofore provided for, and humbly to request, that his Honour
will be pleased to take such measures as to him shall seem expe-
dient, to relieve the island of that charge, atter the 31st Decem-
ber next;
And the question being put upon the said Amend-
ment, the House divided, Ayes, 14 ; Noes, 23.

- - - -
So it passed in the negative.
Then the question being put upon each of the said
two Resolutions reported from the Committee, they
were severally agreed to by the House.
A Committee was appointed on the 23d November,
on the following motion, by Mr. SHAND :
" That a Committee be appointed so prepare an humble Re-
presentation and Petition to his Majesty, setting forth the de-
plot able situation to which his most loyal subjects, the inhabi-
tants of this island, have been reduced, by the pressure of long
protracted warfare, and the peculiar animosity with which the
reittictions growing out of it have been directed against the
agriculture and productions of the colonies, which, in place of
being alleviatesl, have been aggravated by regulations of national
policy.
" Most humbly submitting the injustice of continuing to exact
duties, which have been proved in full Parliament no longer to
be paid by the consumer of our productions, bat to fall on the
grower, to the insupportable extent of Leaving little revenue
from the largest estates, and none whatever from the smaller
plantations :
" Praying that regulations, restrictions and duties, which
have been found so grievous, oppressive, and unequal, may be
reviewed and considered with reference to the novel but existing
order of things, and such alterations made, and alleviations
afforded, as shall place the property of the colonists on a fair and
equal footing with that of his fellow-subjects in the parest-state;
contributing a just proportion of the clear revenue to the public
we, but not having the whole torn from him by a system which,
by irrefragable evidence, has been proved to be as much at va-
riance with the professed object of its framers, as with every
principle of equal taxation and common equity,"

PAALIAMZNTAItr PROC.IEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LOItDS, JAN. gt.

A person from the Secretary of State's Office presented an ac-
count of the compatadve Population of Great Britain in 18 01
and 1811.-. Laid on the Table.

WRITS OF ERROR.
The LORD CHANCELI.OR moved that the Writs of Er-
ror depending in that House, which had not been entered for
hearing either in the last or present Session, and in which the
printed cases had not been laid before their Lordships, pur-
suant to their orders, should be referred to the Committee to
which the Appeal Cases in similar circumstances had been sub-
- .

rial Majesty having j
for the relief of the
necessities of the stab
the Contribution of t:
50 per cent. and the
the course of the mill
these taxes shall be r
With respect to th
Cons, it is the will ti
Bards the deniers per
and other objects of
have hitherto subsist
following modificatic
1. The annual incomes
estimated and declared it
niers per cent. shall be cm
2. The representations
the Authorities, at the la
in general all the declarat
nuary, 1812, to the pen
province.
3. Two periods shall t
Lion, called that of the c
viz, the 31st of March, ;
4. The personal conu
fined at one florin value
the end of January, 1812
5. With respect to th
regulations shall be ohm
granted to the Magistr;
places, only one half per
sonal contribution Which
The personal cont
being continued the
article, as they hay
patent of the 20th of
of the 12th of July (
in that respect, to w
to conform. The p
periods fixed for the
he rigorously entorc,
in, can only attribu
they are subjected
above edicts. Expt
venal years the regu
ner of drawing up
perly observed, all
under the penalties
require from all per
clarations in a prop(
who shall not give I
bear the person's ba
his condition, or prc
KING
HOUSE OF
'The House, accol
a Committee of the
take further into cor
Mr. Muneny, ft
Resolutions to the
and delivered in at i
rally read, are as ti
1. Resolved, That it
thine and strengthen t
between this colony and
in the power of as most
distressed situation, to
termination the import
is engaged, and procure
cure and honourable pet
2. Resolved, That th
necessary, fur giving to
this island, for its prose
of the Country stands pl
months, front the 31st
repair the barracks buil
the usual comforts in it
ing to the Officers the a
fore granted by the Ho
And a Motion b
port, by striking of
the remaining won
thereof, to insert th
It is the first dut y of
Island of Jamaica, to it
its ixoprietors and inhm
and rum,. and te dtvis
and alladi a temporary
'That tbc present an
/ma train of mpolitic
seen and deprer.a.i.d,ri
a rettrence to its Joust
standing the many rep
Gcw,trunent at the
quences of such balefu
wail our ruin is finally
3 hat, in consequent
ististalice would be