Star.
London, England, 1801-02-19 00:00:00

RFCAPITTILATION-

TEA, SOL pei cent. on all above t 6d. per :b. 37D,C00
PAPER, double the prefent duty.with a few cxcep-
tions, and an allowance for News Papers •
PRINTS.° GOODS, additional Duty of 2'll on all
Paying Ad- • - -
SUGARS, IS. I ad. per. cwt. the Convoy Duty made
proportional and the temporary one to ceafe -
SCR, I-3d of the prefcnt Duties -
Ps rrita, 3d. par lb. for Home Confumpt ion -
Ditto exported, 6d. pe; lb. - - .
LRAD, RCS. per ton exported -
TRAIN OIL, RCS. a ton
RAISINS, es. 6d. per cwt. -
POST °MCI - •
• STAMPS - •
Hoesesforlateasuar,whereonly one, t05.L.63,000
On all above one, zos. - 73000--136,000
Ditto for Hv SIANDRY, RS. - 770,000

135

140,000

723,000
200,M0
8,000
92,000
2,000
I 2,000
I 2,000
130,000
340,300

L5,730,0:0
This is the whole amount of the encreafed bur-
thens which I am under the neceflity of propofing
to be laid upon the Public for defraying the charges
upon the Loan ; and I hope they will not be found
to prefs very heavily on any defcription of the peo-
ple of this country,bnt (fill let. on the lower orders;
and if that fhall be the judgment of the Houfe, it
will afford me a peculiar fatislaftion to reflea that I
have been enabled to acquit this part of my duty
with fo little inconvenience to the public. Now, be-
fore I conclude this part of the fubjeet I am final:-
ing of, 1 fhall beg leave to trouble the Houfe with
a few words on the fubjed of the Income Tax.
At the time I firft propofed that tax, I had reafon
to hope, from the belt calculation I could make,
that that tax would yield ten millions per annum ;
but I have been miflaken in that calculation, and
therefore I feel that I can no longer rely on more
than fix millions; and it would on that account be
irrational to hope that the application of it fhould
be direded to the purpofes originally intended. I
did firft propofe it with a view that it fhould be
a war tax, which, in time of Peace, fhould repay
the erects of the public debt beyond a given
amount. If I was to pulls it fo as to make it a
perpetual tax, I feel that I fhould be deftroying the
obje& itfelf for which I introduced it. If it fhould
be made a mortgage for the turns to be borrowed,
it cannot be available for the purpofes of carrying
on the war ; and therefore it would not be con.
fluent with my duty to prolong the period for
which this tax fhould be mortgaged. But al-
though it has fallen fhort of my original eflimate,
it will go a great way to anfwer the purpofes
which 1 at firft intended. Suppofe the whole
amount Ikould happen to be ten millions a year,
it would not even then be neceirary to mortgage
it to the extent at which I had originally pro-,
poled. Since the time this tax was introduced,
there have been eighteen millions of the public
debt difcharged by means of the redemption of
the Land Tax. I wills. however, to carry this
tonfideration a little farther : I do think it right to
look forward to the object of confining this Tax to
the reduBion of the debt to the amount at which
it flood in the year t 798. I think it will be bet-
ter to referve the Income Tax as a War Tax,
than to pulls it to the whole extent to which I
at firft intended. I think it better to adhere
to thole principles we fhould now have in
view—the principles of railing a part of the
fupplies within the year by means of this tax,
and of enabling the public to borrow thofc fumy
that fhall be necelfary for the fervice of each year.
Whoever will recolleift the circumflances under
vbich we borrowed money three years ago, and
lipares them with the (late of the country in
we have been enabled to make the prefent
Loan—Whoever looks at this Loan and compares
terms of it with thole of former Loans, muff
Ire and fl:el the
.great ability which the country
Foliates of making entreated exertions. But al-
though thcfe exertions, fo far as they might tend
to prevent the encreafe of public burthens. cannot
he carried to the extent which I flattered myfelf!
two years ago they would then be ; yet it is pro-
per that we thould fee whether there are not great
and di ntial refources hill to be found in the tax
on Incur:ie, taking it at the limited amount of fix
millions. That tax under certain modification',
to7ether with the aid of the Sinking Fund, will b:
frond to produce the greateft advantages to future,
times. After a peace (ball be concluded, it wll.
operate u ac powerful means of reducing the

amount of the public and if we look In-
ward with confidence to thole battering profpeels,
we (hall have no reason to think omit-Ives midaken
in our hopes if we continue the fame feale of ex-
ertions we have hitherto done. It is therefore
my opinion that the tax on Income ought to be
continued ;is it now is, until it (hall, with the aid
of the Sinking Fund, have reduced the debt to
the amount at which it flood in the year 17)°,,
when I firlt propofed that tax. We !hail then have
conferred the molt effential and haling benefits up-
on the public ; and pofterity will not have reafon
to 1.,y that we had done too little, or that we had
not made great facrifices for their benefit. The
capital created in the prefent year will add twenty
millions to the public debt, which added to the fifty-
fixmiliions aireadycharged on the Income Tax,will
mace a Turn of feventy-lit millions, the whole of
which fum,according to the calculations I made lad
year, will, by the operation of the Sinking Fund,
together with the Inconie Tax, be redeemed in the
(pace of fix years. I hope, therefore, that this
will appear to be no very difcouraging hate of the
country after the numberlefs difficulties we have
had to encounter. It is not for me to anticipate
new trials—to look forward to embarraffments and
dihreffes greater than thofc we have already ex-
perienced—but dire I am that, if the Members of
this Houfe will be as true to their own charafter,
to their own honour, their confiflency, and their
powers, as the attachment and vigour of the
country at large has been true to them, none of
thole difficulties that may :trice will any longer be
felt. I hope and troll that the iinfliaken firmnefs
of this Houle, united to that of a brave and loyal
people, will hereafter continue to produce the
fame effeas which they formerly have done ; and
that with regard to our native energy and our
radical flrength, there will be nothing to dithearten
us—nothing to make us in the flighteft degree
Ihrink from the performance of our duty. I doubt
not, Sir, but we fhall continue to be animated by
that fpirit, and guided by that wifdom, which
have at all times belonged to and diltinguiflied
the name of Engliflunen. It is with uncommon
fatisfaaion that I have to direa the attention
of the Houle to two or three leading confider-
ations, which will give Gentlemen an idea of
the refources which this country has to depend
on. In the firft place, I have to hate that
the permanent revenue of this country has far
exceeded any thing it had ever been before, or
any thing which the molt fanguine hopes could
have anticipated. The amount of the revenue for
the year ending in January laft, has exceeded by
the font of 1,800,0001. what was computed by the
Committee which had taken into its conlideration
the finances of the country. If we lrI: to the hate
of our public debt, we limit there behold diffident
to do away any kind of defpondency, and rade
our hopes. We (hall find that by adhering to the
fyllem eftablifhed leveral years a);o, of appropri-
ating a certain funs towards the liquidation of the
National Debt, no lefs a fum than 52,000,0001.
of the capital of that debt has been completely
paid off ; and that the total amount of the Sink-
ing Fund is five millions fterling. We find there-
fore that, notwithltanding the burthens of this
War, more than one half of the debt contra/led
by our anceftors at one time has been completely
paid off. We find that the amount cl our per-
manent revenue is greater than it has ever been in
any former years either of Peace or War; and,
what. is hill more deferving of your confederation
—that, during the whole courfe of this War,
which fume Gentlemen have thought proper to
call difaftrous and ruinous—this maritime nation,
expofed as (he has been to fuch numberlefs diffi-
culties, to the hoftility of fo many Powers, and
obliged to maintain an immenfe naval and military
force, has every year been increafing in refources.
We have increafed our external and internal com-
merce to a greater p;tch than it.ever was before ;
and we may look to the prefent as the proudctt
year that has ever yet occurred for this coun-
try. The manufaCtures exported from this coun-
try amount in one year, according, to the latch
eftimate, to the value of twenty-four millions,
and the amount of foreign produce that has
been exported is no lefs than leventeen millions.
If therefore we compare this year of war with for-
mer years of peace, we Shall in the produce of our
revenue, and in the extent of our commerce, be-
hold a fpeaacle at once paradoxical, inexplicable,
and aftonifhing—we (hall fee that in finte of the
alarm and agitation which has often prevailed in
the courfe of this arduous contell—in Ante of the.
difficulties occalioned by the Itram;ii condua of
foreign nations—in fpite of the delpondeney which
has eccafionally prevailed, ne have Rill been
adding to our refources, and =creating the means
of continuing a war that was undertaken and car-
ried on for die maintenance of our honour, our
independence, and falety—for the defence of all I
that was dear to th.! civili..ed world ; and for the
exiftence of a Contlitution eminently adapted to
all the purpoks of public liberty and pi ivate happi-
nefs. Amidft all the danger that furround us, and
the difficulties with which.- we may be cmbarralred,
see have hill the coafolation to think that we can
look up with confidence to our power and re-
fources; that we have it in our pi wer to meet
and defeat all the ft heroes and combinations which
our enemies may praaile or rail: up againft us.
From this animating profile& we can look back
with heartfelt fiti:,fiection to what we have don,:—
we can fay to the xt mid, that we have difehaiged
a molt difficult ditty, that, tinder all circumitan-
ces, we have maintained oar corm:l=cy and our
independence ; and in (hors, Sir, that we have
done every thing which was at once calculated to
preferve the rights of a just and benevolent Sove-
reign, under wluofe reign the people have enjoyed
fuch unexampled happinefs—.every thing that
' could tend to exalt the chars her of a great and
wife Legiflature, and preferve the liberties of a
brave and loyal people.—Mr. Pitt then moved
the various Refolioions conformable :o his fpeech.
Mr. Joccirrc made a few ohlerva:ions, expel-
five of his difapprot al of the general plan of tax-
' ation propofed, and of the fears he entettained,
that the produce was not likely to be managed
'with irtfceset.
The Refulutions !Ming read ana agreed to, the

Houfe vas relanted, and Mr. 117-azge
leave for the eommitree m :it :twin, to-morrow.
Mr. Pi rt. pnpoccd that the Report of the Con:-
mitt.:e of Supply fhould be brought up to-morrow.
2.1 r. SHERIDAN apprehended, that the difen:lion
likely to arife on the bringing up of the Report
would interfere with the motion of his Hon.
friead (Mr. Sturt) relative to the Ferrol Expe-
dition, which flood for to-morrow, therefore fug.
gelled the propriety of puttin„i'it off to another day.
Mr. STURT :aid he fhould certainly bring for-
ward his promifed motion to-morrow, and that no
eon:idyl-awn fhould induce hint to pollpune it any
longer.
Mr. PITT raid he had no intention to make
any application to the Hon. Gentleman to poll-
pone his motion, but that for the difpatch of im-
portant public buimefs, it was nccelfary the re-
port of the Committee fhould precede that Motion.
Mr. Pir r's Motion was adopted.
SIR SIDNEY SMITH.

The Houle having refolved Will into a Com-
mittee of the whole }Joule,
Mr. PITT moved, that his Majeay's Menge
refpeeting the annuity for Sir Sidney Smith
fhould be read, which being done, he faid, that
the fubjea recommended in the Meffage was one
of thofe which required no preliminary expla-
nation or apology previous to lubmitting to the
Committee the Kefolution for carrying it into ef-
fe,a. The recollation of the great and important
fervices of the perfon alluded to would fufficiently
engage to it the attention and the fupport of every
Member prefent. With refped to the delay in
bringing it forward, he fhould only obferve, that
it was confidered better that this public acknow-
ledgement and reward of the gallant officer in
queftion fhould come at the clofe of his command
in the Ration where he had g..incd furl ditlitt-
nvifhed honour. Forefeeing no difference of opi-
nion on the motion he was about to make, he
fhould forbear any panegyric upon the merits of
Sir Sidney Smith, howc•••er agreeable it might be
for himfelf or the Committee to indulge in that
ftrain, and fhould therefore move a Refolution for
enabling his Majefty to fettle upon Sir Sidney
Smith the fum of toool. per year out of the Con-
folidated Fund, for the term of his natural life.
Mr. TIERNEY was not fatisfied with the reafons
affigned for the delay in bringing forward a motion
for rewarding, the fervices of the gallant officer in
queftion, and he likewife thought that the fervice
of Sir Sidney Smith in the negotiation of the
treaty of El Arifch fhould no lcfs be mentioned
than the defence of Acre.

Mr. PITT faid, that the prefent moment was not
the time for entering into the tubjeet on which the
Hon. Gentleman teemed anxious to introduce an
argument. Other opportunities would occur. For
the prefent he fhould only obferve that, in the cir-
cumitances in which the Executive Government of
this country formed their decifion, it was impoffible
for them to ad upon the principles which Sir Sid-
ney adopted in the conclulion of the Convention of
El Arifth, though they entertained the fullell
fenfe of his merits, and had even given orders for
the obfervance of that Convention when they, knew
it had taken place.
The Refolution was unanimoufly agreed to, the
Houle returned, and the Report ordered to be re.
ceived to-morrow.—Adjourned.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19.

PRICF OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CI.OOK .

Coe:lets 56: F—Reduced 57174 per. C. 76.

.
Ncw s per C. 9t:l-0141 ditto smi—Long Ann. 17 7-16.
Omnium zit pram.

The great length of the Treaty between Aunt-la
and France which we yclierday laid before our
readers prevented our giving fome other articles
from the nencli Tapers which are well worth
perad, efpecially the MdTage of the Confuls, in-
fertcd in the firft page of this day's STAR.
The Ncgociation Items to have been managed
with great addrefs on the part of the French, who
avoided the delays and inconveniercies of a Con-
grefs, and treated with the Emperor for himfelf
and for the Empire. By this procedure the
French avoid the obnoxious talk of interfering in
adjufling the indemnities to be given to thole
German Princes who have been difpoffeffed of their
territories. But whence arc the indemnities to be
procured ?—only by difpoifetling others by fecu-
larization or otherwife !-1-low then are the latter
to be indemnified ?

It will be ken by the Mefrage of the Councils,
that France makes one cattle with the Northern
Powers againft Britain.' No one has doubted this
for fume time ; but now it is avowed, and the
fame abufe which has for years been popular in
• Europe againtl. France, will now be equally fo
again(' this country.—Tempora mutaiour.
news of the peace in Paris railed the price
of Tiers Coliolides to 651. What a change. A few
years ago we were told, on what was then held to
I be the bell authority in this country, namely that
I
of Mr. PITT, that the French funds were annihi-
hated, and the Republic worfe than bankrupt I
It was reported yellerday in the firs political
circles, that the Marquis of LANSDOWNE had written
a Letter to a certain Perfonage, informing him,
that by a late event, he felt himfelf at liberty to
impart to his M—, that he had reafon to know,
BONAPARTF WAS difpofed to treat for Ps*ci, on
terms not injurious, either to the honour, or in-
teras of England
Whether M. CAZALIS be gone over to France
ion a pacific negotiation, or no, we will not pre-
fume to tietermine ; but certain it is, that he em-

tindcrne x r +prt's own paalicrt.—and es-a ,
!lir many months previous to his departure, tin.:
con il agent. EA theAotxci3us Lord Li vet:POO:—
Yellerday Mr. Pi: r opened the Budget as
Chancellor of the Exchequer, beiNg toptar-
awe 1,1 :ha A.-trader. Th.! new Taxes arc—an
additional duty on all teas above 2s. 6d. per lb.
—a duty on paper, double to the prefent one, with
exceptions to ionic particular forts—a duty on
printed cottons—ts. sod. per cwt. on fitgars--
t-3d additional duty on timber-3d. per lb. on
pepper-2C5. per ton on lead-2os. per ton on
train oil—is. 6d. per cwt. on radius—additional
duty on letters—additional duty on Ramps—duty
on all pleafure-horfer., and on thole for hufban.
dry.—The whole amount of the increafe of the
Revenue by thefe additional duties is-1,730,000L

A confiderable degree of anxiety prevailed yef-
terday at St. James's, on account of the Kitio's
unexpthed ablence from the Levee, where a great
numb--r of the Nobility and Gentry had affembled.
to pay their refpeas to his MAJESTY. On enquiry,
it was told that the KING was recommended not
to go abroad, on account of a fevere cold, with,
which he had been incommoded for feveral day,
attended with a flight degree of fever. It is pro.
hable, however, that public bufinefs might have
had fome (hare in keeping his Majesry at home,
as a Council was holding at the Queen's Houle,
from two to three o'clock, at which were prefent—
their Royal Highnefles the Dukes of YORK an.l
KENT; Earls CLARE, SPENCER, HARRINGTON,
Lord LoucuEoßouckf, Sir WILLIAM GRANT.
and Mr. ADDINGTON.

The Kisc's ahfence from the Levee appeared
the more particular, as feveral of the late Mini-
fters refigned their offices yeaerday. It was in-
tended that Lord. Ca vsvii.LE fhould deliver the
Seals into the KING'S hands ; and Lord SPENCER
took his leave of the Board of Admiralty.
The following are the Artklcs of the Treaty of
Campo Formio, alluded to in the Treaty between
/Infirm and France, as included in it, viz

XII. All fates or alienations of property, aU engagements en.
tered into, either by the Cities or by the Government, or by tl.o
Civil Acanniftrative authorities of the ci-devant Venetian ter-
ritories, for the maintenance of the German and French Ar-
min, up to the date of the fignature of the prefect Treaty, grail
be confirmed and acknowledged as valid.
XIII. The territorial titles and archives of the different coon.
tries ceded or exchanged by the prefent treaty, than, within
two months from the date of the exchange of the ratification.
be put into the hands of the powers which fhaU have acquired
the property of them. The plans and maps of the fortreffes,
towns, and countries, which the tontrading powers acquire
by the prefent treaty, (hall be faithfully given up to them. The
military papers and rcgilters taken in the prefent war from the
Etat Major of the rerpeetive arntics, &all be re tored in the
fame manner.

XV. There (hall immediately he concluded a treaty aeons.
merce, founded upon an equi,able balls, and loch as Dull fe-
cure to his Maki:). the Emperor, King of Hungary, and the
French Republic, advantages equal to thofe which the molt fa-
vor! Ai nations enjoy in their relpetlive States. Meanwhile all
communications and commercial relations (hall be ream ed to
the fituatiou in which they flood before the war.
XVI. No inhabitant of all the countries occupied by the Au-
Arlan and French armies i,t ill be profecuted or quettioned, ei-
ther in his penal or property, on account at his political opi.
mons or his conduct, civil, military, or commercial, during
the war that has taken place between the two Powers.
XVII. His Majelty the Emperor. King of Hungary and Bo-
hemia, shall not, agreeably to the principles of acutrality, ad-
mit into any of his ports, during the courfe of die prekst war.
any vellels belonging to any of the Belligerent Powers.
XXIII. His Majefty the Emperor, King of Hungary and 80..
hernia, and the French At:public, (ball mutually preferve to each
other the fame ceremonial with regard to rank and other
etiquette which was conflantly obfervcd before the war. His
liid klajelty and the Cifalpinc Republic null oliferve, with re-
gard to each other, the fame ceremonial of etiquette which was
in ufe between his Majefty and the Republic of Venice.