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PARLIAMNTARr PROCEEDINUS.

HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY. MARCH si.

Ceunfel were further heard, and at conliderable lenprh, relative
to the Scot. Appeal, Rochied o. Kinloth, Bart v".z. Mr. Eribinc,
in continuation, on behalf ache Appellant ; and Mr. Clark, In
part, on the fide of the Acfpondent. The farther hearing war de-
ferred till to-morrow.
Tbe bearing of • andel was temporarily adjourned, for the pur-
pole of the-Royal Alfaut being given by Commilßon to the Ma-
rble Mutiny HID, to• Lord John Thrift's Indemnity, and to fix
Naturalisation Bills.

The Lords CommifSimers were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Havikefbury. and Lord Vir:sifiiighans.
The BUIE upon the table were forwarded in their refpeeive
Rages. Among dee, the Exchequer Bills Bill, the &hilt Sugar
Duties Drawback, he Spirits WarehouGng. and the following
frith Finance Bills, viz. the Stamp Duties, Pottage Rates, Excite
Duties, Malt Tax, Cullom Duties Drawback. and the iriih Expiring
Laws Bills, were feverally read a fecond time.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up from the Commons the Irith Pro-
miffory Notes, and the frills Sugar Bounty Bills, which, together
with a few Private Bills, irefented by other Gentlemen, were
read s Brit time.

Mr. lam NO, Infpecctor-Genrral of the Curtoms, prefented an
Account of the Imports of Great Britain, for eighteen years, end-
ins nth January, tBos.
Mr. Myr ruin, from the Treafury, prefeated an Account of the
public expenditure for the lilt year, and of the unfunded Debt on
the nth of January ha.
Mr. Yonne, from the Cuftom Hoare preened certain Ac-
counts minting to the Trade and •liseigar;ao of Great Britain dl.
retied to be annually laid before Parliamerki mid certain accounts
wn.p...f..nted from the foft Mike —There Accounts were few-
rally_ordered to lie on the Table..—Adjourned.

HOUSE of COMMONS.

The Houfe haring attended the -Hook of Lords, purfuant to a
&names by the Ulher of the Black Rod, the SPTAKFR on thcir
return, informed them that the Royal Affent had been given' by
Commillion to the Marine Mutiny, and Lord J. Tbynnes laden-

Mr. Jonmsox, from the Chief Secretary's Office In Ireland, pre-
rented an Account of the IriOa 61. per Cent. Duties.—Ordcral to
lie on the table.

Mr. ['vino, from the Cullom, In Scotland, prefented an Ac-
wont of the Exports and Imports to and from Scotland ; and alto
of all Arrears and Balances in the hands of the Cummilfionen.—
Orgereclto Ile on the table.

Mr. HUSKISSON prefented an Account of the public Expendi.
tore for the laft yrar —:/rdarcel to de on the table.
. Similar Recounts with thofe from Scotland were prefented fmm
the Commiffioners of Wham in England, and difpofed of in the
fame manner.

Mr. STAVELLY from the PoR Office. prefented an Account of
'the Arrears and lialinces in the hands of the llolkpaiters General.
'tip to the sib of January, igos —Ordered colic on the table.
l'he Cifancelama of the &en aquae moved, that there be
laid before the Hoek an Accoun- of all Sums to be paid in dif-
charge of the rum of 9ta,4031. ftated in the Sib Report of the Com-
mittee of Finance to be due from John Fordyce, Efq. late Receiver
General of the Crowd Lands in Scotland. and

. A copy of the proporals made by him in:he Lords or his Majef-
ty's Treafury, fbr the liquldadon of the Lid debt.—Ordered.
The St. Pancras Workhoufe Bill was ordered to be read a fr-
ond tftne op Wednefday neat, after a Mort eouvcrfation between
Mr. Byng and Mr. Calcraft.
Mr. YOUNG brought up an Amount of the.number of Ships and
their Tonnage employed In the. Sla- Tra4e !or ; Ita:od
c.frtlered to lie on the table.

MIDDIASIX 4LECTIOd.

Mr. THORNTON then role, purfuant to his no-
tice lalt night, for the purple of fixing a day for
the Midcflefex ballot. He was anxious, he faid, that
no time fhourd be loft. He had been looking at
precedents relative to this fubjea, and found that an
interval of 37 days was in general the pradice, from
the day cf prefenting the Petition to that of making
the ballot, but fometimes more, fometimes leis. On
this occafion there were feveral reafons that induced
him to take a flintier period. The felSon was far ad-
vanced, and did not admit of much room for delay,
and by far the majmity (lithe voters betides had al-
ready been canvalfed very lately, which would leave
only a few fubjeet to any new invefligation—a num-
ber, he thought, not exceeding a few hundreds. He
wifhed, however, at the fame time, to confult the
conveniency of the Houk, and was ready to f,d
to their opinion. He concluded by propofing the 23.1
of April as a proper day for the ballot.

Mr: FOX Was Of opinion that the time propofed
by the Honourable Gentleman was too limited, as
there ought not only to be a fufficient interwal be-
tween the petition and the delivery,pf the lifts, but
all* the neceifary time between the delivering of the
lids and the ballot, fur the purpufe of eratnining
them, and framing the objeaions.
Mr. THORN FON fuggetied thatten days might
be fufficient for that purport,.
Mr. FOX f.tid, that this would render the deli-
very of the Lids necefFary on the 13th, which was
too fhort a period, he thought, for making up the
lifts. 'At any rate, the 23d was the moll hopelefs
day the Honourable Gentleman could have thought
of (alluding to the Windfor Indallation on that day.)
He could have wither! the Honourable Member to
have taken op both days together.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
thought from the fmsll number of the voters Ulu re-
mained to be canvatled the time propofed would be
fufficient. To which
Mr. FOX replied, that not only the numbers, but
the ciicumfiances of the voters were to be confideted.
Mr. CREEVEY contended that not only prece.
dents, but reafon and the nature •of the thing, !S-
-quired a longer time, and [hated that in the cafe of
the former &dim), the day of the ballot, after hay-
ing been :fixed, bad been farther put of by 24r. Nein-
waring. •
Mr. IIIORNTON then moved, that the ballot be
fixed for the 25th of April. •
On the rptedion being put,
Mr. CREEVEY propofed as an amendment, that
the 9th of Maybe fubllituted for the 25th of April,
on which a divifion was called for, and the gallery
cleared.
The original motion, however, was carried with-
out a dividon ; and on our return to the gallery, we
found the Speaker putting the quellion relative to
the exchange of thelids, which, after form convert's-
tion between Mr. Fox and Mr. Thornton, was fixed
for the 15th of April.

WAYS AND WAN',

. _
The Houfe having refolved itfelfinto a Committee
upon the Ways and Means,
The CHANCELLOR of
.the EXCIIEQITER
rote, and (poke_ to the following effect
" In confequence of• the determitnition 'of the
Houfe'to rejeft the Bill iMpofing a tax upr.n Horfes
ufed in Hufbandry, and the vacation with refpelt
to the Salt Duty, it has become neceffary to fuggett
fome other form of taxation, as a fubttitute for thefe
propofitious. The extent of the produce of thefe
fources of revenue may be thus dated :—For the
'Salt Duty, 30,0001. for.the Duty on Hodes ufed
in Hufbandry, 320,0001. Tie total 400,0001. '
" It is not eat), to find new fubjees of taxation
competent to produce fo large a Cum ; and I have,
therefore, keen obliged to have recourfe to a more
numerous catalogue of articles than I thould have
walled. The rates, however, I (hall (Omit to the
Houfe, are confined to two grand fources of national
fupply, the Cullom' and the Excife ; and I (hall ap-
' ply my obfervations, in the Grit lull:ince, to the lat-
ter. I propofe upon Glafs an addition of sol. per
cent. upon the Excife. It now pays, according to
the different qualities, eight !billings and two-pence,
twenty4our !hidings and fix-pence, and thirty.two
(billings and eight-pence per hundred weight.' This,
I expect, will produce 80,6001.
a Bricks and tiles have appeayed to me capattle of
bearing an additional impofition. They pay at pre-
fent five !hidings per thoufand. I propofe to add ten.
pence; and I expect that the refult of this will 'be
the produce of about 37,0001. Gentlemen are aware
that there are already allowances upon tiles ufed in
drains, and in other departments of agriculture, and
the fame indulgence is intended to be granted with
refpee to the further burthen now fuggefted. Auc-
tions hale appeared capable likewife of (Whining an
additional weight. The prefent tax is fix-pence in
the pound Reding upon climes, and ten-pence upon
goods. I defign to augment the former one-firth,
and the latter one.filth, and the acquifition to the re-
venue from this fource, I apprehend, will amount
to nt,oool. Upon coffee, which is lets effential to
the lower chiles than many other articles• of beve.
rage, I propofe to add fixpence to the prafent rate.
and the refult in favour of the national income I ex-
ped to be zB,oool. There are two other articles
which may be ranged under the clafs of luxuries. I
mean cyder and perry, which have not been tared
in their due proportion : they will very well• hear
ten .(billings per hogfizead, and the tax will yirid
:about t 6,0001. A limn addition on vinegar w;:l
fupply t r,oool. and by doubling the duty on g(
and filver wire, we (ball obtain 5,0001. making the
whole produce under the various articles from the
Excite
.z 07,0001.

" The next foarce to which I fhall advert, is that
I firft named, the Cullom'. On Bate and (tone, on
which there is a duty when it is carried coaftwife.
I (honld with to impofe an additional tax of zo per
cent. This is intended as a fort of counterpoife
tol the further charge on brick .3nd tiles, under
the head of Excise, and.l expect only to derive from
it 4.4001. A further fum of 22,00 cl I calculate will
he obtained from an additional ten per cent. upon
iron, barilla, turpentine, and, upon certain other
articles, which it is not, perhaps, at this time necef-
fary to detail. But for the principal fource of revenue
from this head of taxation, I would recommend two i
and a half per cent. in addition to the ftibli fling dutie:.
upon all other goods imported ; from which we may
,obtain 176,0c01. Ido not pretend to give thefe with
glut accuracy, but the ellimate will be found to

proach eormanefs fufficiently for the pap& for
which the calculation was intended."
The queflion was then put in the Committee. and
the ilefulutions were pa&d without a divifiom

xsoacv
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved the Order of the Day for the third reading of
the Legacy Bill.
On the quetlion being put—
Sir HENRY MILD MAY declared, that he thobght
it his duty to oppofe this Bill, as it operated on lega-
cies left in the direa line. In this refpee it was every
way exceptionable. It was impofing a tax on the
younger children of a family, and exempting the
only perfon able to bear foal a burden, be meant the I
heir, who does not pay a fin le (billing. He appeal-
ed to the jufticc--he appealed to the feelings of the
Houfe if the Operation of this Bill would he in this
cafe equitable or fair. He complained of the Bill
alto. as a meafure that would fall particularly heavy
on the landed part of the community, who had let`
freqnently an opportunity of edabligking the younger
branches of their family during their life time. The
Hon. Baronet reprobated the meatus* alto, as it
did not ale& children inheriting from marriage fee-
rterneat, while thole whore father had not the advan-
tages of fuch a fettlanent to enable him to provide for
his younger children, came underits operation. He
was concluding with moving as an amendment, that
the claufe relating to-Legaaes in the distil line be
omitted, when _ _

The SPEAKER informed the Honourable Mem-
ber that no motion of that nature could he made till
the Bill was read a third time, but that then he would
have an opportunity.
Lord GEORGE CAVENDISH obferved, that
it would operate as a check on perfons giving away
property, and though there were none that repo-
bated more than be did the peadtice of giving. away
property to the prejudice of there to whom a pro-
perly belonged. yet there were inflames when legs.
rtes were highly proper and necerary to the difcharge
44. the duties of humanity and gratitude. His Lord-
thin appealed to the experience of the mercantile part
of the Haute. There were many foreigners in this
country who had either made fortunes by their lons
indußry, or inherited them from the induary of their
/ethers, and whole long refidence here, and the ha
bits they had enquired, had detached them from any
relations on the Continent. Theft would very natu-
rally leave their property to the friends they had
formed in this country ; and it was hard, be thought,
to lay fuch a tax on this ezpreffion of fricadthip.—
The quellion had not bairn fulficiently caseated. He
concluded, therefore, by urging the propriety of poll-
stoning the third reading, that they might have farther
time to give the fabled due confide:ration.
Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE (aid. he had a
buge family to provide for' Out the oppofition he
gave the sneafure was difinteretled and undifguifed.
In a flinch of tome humour. the Honourable Mem-
ber reprobated the Tax as the molt obnoxious and
revolting he had ever either read or beard of. It
was unfit at any time to pats. It had a dirca ten-
dency to check the fire and warms!! of the motel
duties. and whatever was the fate of the Bill, whe-
ther it paled or net. he would take care. be raid, to
provide for his family without paying towards it. It
was his intention so divide his property among his
children, and in foeh times as the prefent, it was the
duty, be thought, of every man to do fo. It would
fall heavy, he farther contended, not only on younger
children, but= large families ; alto on old maids. the
ill•favorsted. the lame, and the blind, it would fall
peculiarly hard. Such a Tax, if at all allowable to
be mired, ought therefore to be laid oat in nunneries
and hofpitals, that the contributors to it might have
at WA tome afylnm. The Honourable Member
contended farther, that thoufands would evade the
Tax, and that, therefore, it could only be a partial
=carafe.. He wilted to know if it would idea the
Irina funds ? Many from a diOlke to this Tax would
not provide by legacy for the younger part of their
family ; but leave that duty to the penerofity of the
stela. and thus endanger the happmefs and future
puce of their family. In Scotland it mac fall very
heavy. as many of the Ames are (mall. and the fa-
milies generally large. He objeaed to it alto, as it
fell molt feverely on the man who marries and has a
family, while thofe who have none were lets sleeted
by its operation. The operation of this Tax, be con-
fide:ed. as Rill more revere when added to the In-
some Tax. A perfon having ssol. a year left him,
would be obliged by this means, to pay from that
fun as a Tax to Government 801. the firft year.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
adverted with great preafion to the different argu-
ments that had been urged againli the Bill.—
As the Houfe had already decided on the general
principle. of the Bill, he did not think it neceflary to
go into it at fo much leap* as odic:wife he could
have felt k his duty.. The Noble Leta are
(Lord G. Cavendifh) had °Neat& so * ap('
sedan raw
lating to frisch legacies as were left to abfolute Nato,
gent but flatly no part of the Bill could be confi
acted left obnoxious than that. In this cafe the ad-
' was
.unexpetted, and it was natural to (up-
pole neat perfons under this impreffion would party
without much reludkance, with inch a portion of it as
the sax required. and at any rate their claims to it
mull be confidered much lets thong than in ether
cafes it would be. The attack which bad been made
on dire& legacies. he conceived to have proceeded
horn mifapprehenfion, or a very partial view of
the fubjea. Much had been (aid of us falling heavy
on the younger children of a family, but whea Gen-
tlemen ufed this language they teemed to forget that
the tax was very trilling in itfelf—not mote than one
for a hundred. Suppote a father Mould with to leave to
a younger child a legacy of spool it would be edify
fur him to add sol. to this turn for the payment
of the Tax, and fo in proportion with any other turn,
taking the addition from what would have otherwife
hauled to the eldell.ro that in this cafe the younger
branches of the family are completely exempted, and
tLe Tax comes from a quarter that is bell able to bear
it. An Honourable Gentleman had (uppofed, that
in order to evade the Tax a father might be induced
to leave the iirovifion of the younger part of his fa•
milt' to the generofity of the oldeff but of the two
alternatives Its thought the one he had jag mentioned
the moil likely to be adopted. It had been objeaed
alto to the meature, that it affected the provition
made for a family at the death of the father, while any
settlement mad* awing his life was exempted—The
objea of the :maim was certainly not to agile tranF

aftions, though the propriety of filch a tontine might
open a wide field for dikuffron, but tranfattions were
in many inftances taxed al colored. It was urged
that it would tall heavy on the landed part of the
community, as it aright be necefary often to difpofe
of the legacy, in order to be able to pay the taxi but
a land Proprietor might always find Come livings
from which be could annex to the legacy the (um
ae-
ce4fary to pay the duty. The monied man in this re-
f Pee, could be at no Ws, and even fuppoß the land-
ed man had not the means of leaving the ready mo-
ney for the pupate he had mentioned, the soli be
Rill fuppoles the legacy at the value of sOOOL could
be railed by inforance at not more than sos. or 4os.
a year, according to the age of the perfon infiring.
On the whole the Right Honourable Gentleman did
riot think that the objeeions that had been dated,
ought to make any impreffion on the Houfe to the
prejudice of the Bill.
idr. GREY declared hinifelf decidedly hoßile to
the Bill. He thought that it was a direct tax on ca-
pital ; that in many cafes it would fall with the fever-
eft prefure on thole haft able to endure it. To attack
taxes direfully to capital, as this tax would do, was
diredly to defeat enterprise, and divert the maR be-
neficial channels of commerce. In a Country like
this, which depended fo much on commerce, fuck
taxes would be avoided by all confiderau men. But
if /le objetted to the Bill on this ground, be was Rill
. more averfe to it hi a political vsey. In a mixed Go-
vernment, like this, the credit 6f a hereditary arifto-
erscy could only be kept up by great poffellions and
estenfive influence. 'Thefe poreffions and this influ-
ence were both attacked by the Bill, which, for the
firft time, attached to Legacies on Land, as well
as to perfonal property. Such taxes had ever been
condemned by the wifeft political econoinifts. They
had always been conlidered as evidences, when re-
lotted to, of a declining State. He hoped and trufted
that fuch was not yet the (tuition of this Country;
but it was impoffible for any conhderate man to fee
fuch taxes introduced without a confiderable degree
of anxiety. The tax was one of the wtoft Oar-
ing inequality. It was indeed a twee tat on misfor-
tune, and calculated to aggravate affliftion. Every
frefh death called forth its operation ; and it was im-
poffilsk to fay how often or to what amount it might
be paid. The Right Honourable Gentleman's ergo-
maul, therefore, of the lmallnefs of the film to be paid,
was altogether nngatory. He fully entered into all
that had been raid about the hardlhips to which it
would fubjee a younger brother. The Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman had (aid, that if their portion
was in land, they would not be called on to pay. This
was mere evalion ; for every ooe knew that Null di-
vifions of land were not nearly fo valuable, and there-
fore the younger brothers would have a thong temp-
tation to fell their (hares, even at a very difadvanta,
geous price. But the Right Honourable Gentleman
had further contended, that a (mall additional funs
would cover the tax, and remove the difficulty com-
plained of. What was this but in other words to fay,
that the land was to pay the tax, and if fo, why did
not the Right Honourable Gentleman propofe the tax
in this direß form 3 He army ly condemned the Bill,
as ellablithing a monftrous difference between heirs
by fettlesuent, and heirs by birth and confanguinity.
.--This was an objeaiun which had great weight in
his mind. It was contrary to every principle jut.
tier to place thole on a wotfi footing, who derived
their rights from nature, than chore which *rife out
of rofitive appointment. After a variety of other
ebtervations, the Honourable Member concluded, by
raying that be Ihnuld certainly vote for the propofed
amendment.

The go/Rion was then put on the motion, that the
Bill be read a third time, which was carried in the
affirmative.

Sir H. MILDMAY then propofed his amendment, 1
the objea of which was to esempt from the payment
of the taa,all legacies to dire& relations.—The Gallery
was cleared fur a Dirifion. The numbers were, for
he Amendment 72—Again& it 164—Majority 92.
Dr. LAWRENCE alked whether thole turns,
which were to be dithibarted among the next of kin,.
when there was a Will, Humid not be liable to the
tax,. as well as legacies mentioned in the Will?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
replied, that that would be a fubjea for future con-
fi&oation.

The queition was then put on the third reading of
the Bill, and was carried without a divifion.

Adjourned till blandly.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, MARCH s 3.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS O'CLOCK
CAmsL for mosey 51}}-40r ate.slll-oaudias 4 4*.
F.scheq. Ri is par
PRICE OP STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Kish Stook at India Kinds Is. 211 e dif.
kr, C.Rci. Aso. Rot Imp. 3 pa Cent. 54
3 per OM CtatC 5111 H Imp. Ann. of 9-16ths
4 par Cult. Rot Essiseq. Bi k is dif. is. pr. par.
5 per C.sot. Nan 3914 °ma"' 3/ 4f 4 prep►
3 per Cass. sr" hot Tickets tBL iss.
Beak L. Am. Rut Cod. for ate.siii

In the Constnittet of Ways and Means lel night,
the Cuarcauma of the Excusttpsa brought forward
his New Taxes, to cover the deficiency created by
the rejeflitm of the Tax on Hulbandry Horfes, and
the renunciation of the duty on Salt exported. He
Rated the deficiency at fomewhat more than four
hundred thottfand pounds. To meet this he propofes
a variety of Taxes on articles of Cußoma and Excite.
The following is an ablirat of his Astons:lt :--
New Dudes ea G 1.4. .. Vic ro•
Dim Maks and Tiles - . 37400
• -- Andlions . . . - 3000
..—..Cate, stein rate .t 6d. per Paved Awe
=sad Peery - - - - tspoo
- 11.0
Gilt and Silver Wirt - - • '3 oo
Poe
Nato and none% Wriest ranilwitt • 4.108
patina, Turpentine, and iron . novo
Ditty at at pa Cam on Geode kopeeted 576,000

Total

429.400

By private letters from Holland, of the soth Wt.
we are again apprized of the rigorous proceedings of
the French in Holland towards the Dutch merchants.
The cargoes of nine rack have been confiscated. on
&adman of baring colonial produce on board. It now

Teems to be the maxim of the French to appeat to re-
lax oceafionally from their feverittes, for the purpofe
of militating the merchants, and affording themfelves
a fure opportunity of making a greater number, and
of more valuable feilures. The following Proclama-
tion has been ifued
• An mkt •l Ws laoperial Majelly. troolloteted by Madam
etc Cooolthor of Scam Direttor.Ocoeral of ?bum% eooeatoade•

• T• fetle td 'torture an soweliandhes, makinial and whew
marling Mote of the Porte and of the Levant, earning from UM-
den, and from all plicci arbere there are nu French Contialfferlea
of Cossawreial R.lation, and which cannot, eunfequently, be as
by their catilleatee, that thee emunointies do not Wm
from the Eaglith commerce. This meafure emends to merchan-
dises from the Porte, mind with Coionial emonwilida, of w►ic►
inliture the powerfid °Nat la, to mak the origin of thole em-
barked is England."

There are upwards of forty neutral rails in the
Dutch ports, which are prevented from failing by the
French, under pretence that they are bound for Eng-
land; at the fame time it is known they hare DO fuel
intention.

This morning arrived a mail from Hamborgh,
from which we' have feleaed the following articles :
Maas, Fits. 22.—The French gattifon in Mantua
will be reinforced with fix battalions of infantry and
a fquadron of cavalry ; and the Magittracy of that
city have received adds to prepare quarters for 340
officers.

Maoato,' Fs'. ao.—;-About eight thoufand troops
are already collated in the camp of St. Roch.
The Duke de IRFANTADO and two other perfons of
diflineion have been obliged to leave this capital
within twenty-four hours.
The Englilb Vice Conful at Barcelona, Mr. GlL-
avar,and tome other Elle;Omen who refided in the
Bay of Rota; have been fent prifoners to the Citadel ;
they are fufpeacd of having conveyed intelligence to
the enemy.
Pirsasstracm, Fu. t;.--The Coffacks of the
Danube, who have been reflored to their military
fituation, paraded before the Emperor on the tath
ion. with their new colours, which they had received
on that occafion.

GINO*. Fla. t 4.—Plivate letters from Rome,
dated the sob inn. fay—" A week ago we had fo
dreadful an inundation, that the whole city, except-
ing only the elevated parts, Rood completely under
water. Provifions were carried round to the inha-
tants in boats. The water in the ftreeta was from ten
to as feet high.; and about 6o perfons were drowned."

One of our Newfpapers mentions the following
important piece of intelligence: "According to let•
ters from Madrid, negotiations are aftually Rill going
forward between Spain and England i and it was
hoped in that city that a general peace would take
sake plate in the courfe of the current year."

Accounts we underßand have been received by Go.
verument that the Lm•at.v fitgate, Captain Ham-
mon). had been difpatched by Sir jour ORDt to Ad-
miral Gicoaems, with the intelligence that on the
13th of February the Rochefort aptardon was lien
one hundred leagues to the weR of Cape St,. Vincent,
where it remained becalmed four days, and on the
17th failed a South-weft cootie. Admiral Coco lAN
was on the gth ;ottani off the Tagus, In that the
Rochefort fquadton has five weeks the Hart of him.
The above account i► crinfidered certain ; if fo, the
report of the French fleet having been off Madeira on
the ad of February mull be falfe. We are at a lots
to conceive bow the French fleet could Hill have been
only one hundred leagues from Cape St. Vincent a
month after failing from Rochefort. Their deffination
is Rill matter of doubt.

ORATORIO.—The Grand Seleaion from HANDZL
nitrated, left night, a very cronded audience. It
was very Admirably Caltained in every part.

BETTI/10.R000111, MARCH EI....STATE OW THE 0000..w0AT.
LANUS...Edit : 3 totot agft Julia.-4 to it set any Other.--
&rood Ciao : $ to a agft Parafol. 7 to a agft Duxbury, 5 to t
agft Eleanor, 7 to t agft Maiden, 8 to t agft Harefonte—Urea*
btu t we Lord Egremont'a Waxy Colt. 7 to t agft Hafrino. 8 to
I alga Newmark, : a totot agft Waxy, filly, out of Drab,
tot agft Sifter to Julia.
S N OC KING Ate IDs NT.—Yelerday afternoon, about
five o'clock, Ledy RICHARD PRNIIVISAN Supped her
chariot at the White Hurfe Cellar, Piccadilly, and
ordered the coachman to hand a parcel out of the
boot, which was to be fent from the Coach office to
the country. When the coachman Rooped into the
boot, another coach drove up behind, which caufed
the hones of Lady KEIT man's carriage to take
fright, being very fine blond cattle. They drove on,
full (peed, till they GAHM to the end of Arlington-
Rrect, down which they rapidly turned. The coach.
MEI endeavoured to recover the reins, which he could
not elk& ; and, in the tiruggle, he fell on the pole,
which ran between the holies, from which be could
not extricate himfelf. Arlington-greet not being a
thoroughfare, the horfes ran with all the force they.
could Reknit the railing at the end of it, which being
only vaunted wood, quickly gave way from the (hock.
The area was about is feet deep, and four feet wide.
The pole cams againll the wall, and was b:oke to
pieces,and the unfortunate coachman was precipitated
to the bottom. One of the horfes fell after him ;
the other being furpended in the railing, the body of
the coach being placed on the area, with the fore
wheel down. Several pet Guts who faw the accident
ran to the (pot, and extricated Lady Pennyman front
her perilous fituation, we are happy to fay unhurt,
-but very much frightened. The coachman was car-
ried to St. George's Hofpital, in a doubtful Rate of
recovery. The Prince of Waxes, followed by his
groom, arrived on the (pot, and few Lady Plena.
wan taken into :Surgeon's lhop, in Arlington Rreet,
where the received immediate medical affißance
and was afterwards taken home is a chair to her
apartments, in Long's Hotel, Dover-greet. The
horfe thatfell into the area was brought out through
the hoof, into Park place, being on a level with the
beet on that fide. Among thole who arrived to fee
the accident were the Duchefs of ST Aurae's, Lords
.SerTolll, GRANTHAM, QUIMBY. CargiDCMUILCHILL,
aad the HAD. B. Qum.

•
• ' N.4UTI44L pITELMGENCIL

FALMOUTH. MAIM. 20.—Artived this day the
American brig Regulator, Capt. Cutworm., in 32
days from New York, with 1070 hoglheads of Sour
for a market ; the lefri' ying_ at New York the Eliza.
PAITIIIIOIII. and Leiceiter, BIER (packets); the lat.
ter was expetied to fail in a few days with mail, for
England; the Regulator Ipeke. a fiw days tince a
large Spanith Drip, bound to Plymouth ; but the
prize-matter on board would not give any particulars
by what velfel the was captured; the alto (poke, in
lat. 44). long. is. the American (hip Oneida ie,
for New York. all well ; AO arrived his Moja'',
Chip Humber, Capt. HILL. from Plyntioth.--Saiied
the Cockatrice, Lieut. Kollar, having on board the
prifoners from the Spanilh privateer the Felicity,
captured by the Kitty privateer, of London. The
Lady Arabella packet. from the Leeward Wards,
and Prince Adolphus ditto, from Jamaica, will be
&only looked for. Wind South.

PORTSMOUTH MARCH 22.—Arrived the Name.
its frigate from the Weftward. Sailed the pecans
frigate, to the %seaward, with fealed orders, and
RoyaliS and Sea Nymph transports for Southsunp-
ton.—Wiod E. S. E.

YAILMOUTII. MARCH 22.—Yellerday failed the PLY
cutter, for the Tezel ; and the CATO armed (hip. on
a cruize. Arrived the Scour flonp of war. from a
anise. Several hoys are now in the offing. fuppofed
to be detained by fome of his Majelly's
Yellerday afternoon a boat belonging to the AIM*
LOU, of so guns, having eleven men and one wo.
man on board, upfet near the Jetty, owing to her
not anfwering the helm, by which accident five num
'were drowned, viz. the MitithipM*ll, Cockfvrain, oa
Mat kw, and two Seamen. Six men and the woman
were laved by the ezertinns of the Sea Fencibles.