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London, England, 1802-04-28 00:00:00

ISM COURTS:

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Mr. Laton rote, purftiant to notice, to move for leave to
being in a Bill to make tome new arrangements in the Mai
Courts of Law. The °Weds of his Bill he explained to be,
to put the las Courts upon the fame Inundation As thof.l of
Weitmiolter-hall, and to make the Courts in Ireland indepen-
dent of each other; that is to fay, to fettle the line of each
Court'. jurlfdirStion, for as they were at prefent adminiftereil,
upon the principles of the old common law, Niters were liable
to be entangkd in many embarraffroents from which fuitors in
England were free. Another objedi of his Bill w,,uld be. to
Prevent vexatious and frivolous arreits—that no one mould be
arrefted in Ireland for any fum under tot.; as fuch was the law
in England, be hoped there would be no objedion to this part
of the Bill, or indeed to any part of a poled which had the
unanimous approbation of the lrilh Judges. The lion. Mein•
ber concluded with moving for leave, Bre: purfuant to his
fiatemenr.

Mr. Mooaa exhorted the Houk to palate before they Mould
adopt an innovation, which to his knowledge was decidedly
difapproxed of by the late refpedted Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
As to thr kitteipart of the Hon. Gent innan's Bill, it was wholly
utincc..X.iry, as iii fat any pcafon areited in lreland t.ir a lets
turn titan teL was liberated on common bail, finer the I-1w on
that fat.jeet had been wafted in Euglaud.--Leave was given to
bring in the Bill.
Exec/al', ISEPORT,•ND TONNAGE. DUTY.
The CHANCELLOR of the Excirmyva moved
fur the committal of this bill. •
General Gascoacma vie, and commented at
fame length on the nature and tendency of this
ntealure. He WAS furprized that the Right Hon.
Gentleman had not, in making this motion, given
hone reafon for the exemption of Ireland from
thcfe taxis—an exemption which would operate as
a ht.iais in Eivotir of the merchants and matiufac-
Niel:4 that country, to the di(tdvantage of ling- I
lag, I. • When Ireland, in the }car Igo, was ad-

?flitted to a participation of our 'American and
Welt India trade, it was by the Aft of the Britifh
Parliament, under the exprefs condition that duties
fhould be laid by the Irifh Parliament on all goods
imported from, and exported to, thai fettlements,
equal to the duties on the fame articles in Eng-
land. He fame nothing in the articles of Union to
abrogate this Aft, and yet the bill before the
Houle would go virtually to repeal it. The pre-
cedent, lie thought, would be extremely danger-
ous. No fuch exemption from taxes was ever
granted to Scotland ; and it would be a curious
queftion to confider, whether one part of the Mem-
-1 hers of that Houle were to fit and vote on the im-
polition of taxes which were riot at all to profs up-
on their own .conflituents, but rather operate to
their benefit by prejudicing another part of the
empire. It was admitted by all, that our trade
had been Tome time in a flagnant Rate and with-
! out any very flattering profpea of a fpecdy change.
Was it prudent, he would aft(, under !bell circtun-
-1 fiances, to lay a tax on the carrying trade, parti-
culaely when it was confidered that lor Tome years
back we had employed in our commerce not lets
, than four foreign (hips for one Englifh ? and that
the foreign feamen which had been connefted with '
lour's during the war, had been very materially im-
proved. Thofe duties together would, in his
opinion, in many inflances exceed the freight, filch
1 as in the cafe of tallow, coffee, and other articles.
By the exemption of Ireland from thefe duties,
coffee might he told at Cork at Bs. per cwt. lefs than
the merchants of London could accept for it.— ,
Such would be the effect of this ill-adviled fyllem
! of taxation, a fyllem to unequal, that he was per-
' ' fuaded were any thing like it propufed, ac oiler-
-1 ating to the difadvantage of Ireland, the Irith
' ' Reprefentatives would be ftrenuous in their oppo-
fition, and would contend againft it as an infringe. '
ment of the Union. A Noble Lord had mention-
ed on a former day, that enquiry would be made
into this fubjeft, but nothing bad been Rated a. to
the refult of this promifed enquiry. He hoped
however that the idea of extending thefe ditties to
' Ireland would not be given up, and he had no
, doubt, that from the liberality of the frith mer-
chants and manufaftnrers, they would cheerfully
r fubmit to a tax which was equally to affeft their
British fellow-fubjefts. The Hon. Menber contta-
, lifted the affertion, that this was but the revival of
• lanIan old tax, becaufe there was not the lea ft analogy
between the prefent and the period at which that
tax was first impofed ; a period when the public
danger was fo imminent, and the public wants fo
prefling, that taxes were fubmitted to without ex-
amination on the part of men in trade. With re.
• fpeft to the Ratement, that this meafure was only
defigncd as a trial, and that it Would be repealed
if found injurious—(itch in fad was the cafe with
every tax, for doubtlefs the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer would not perfift in any plan that (hould
; not be found to anfwer its purpole ,• but the Right
Honourable Gentleman ought to retie& that when
trade was once diverted from its accustomed Chan-
, nels, it was very difficult to recover it again. To
corroborate this opinion, he should quote a recent
, inftance—it was that of rock fah, the exportation
of which Parliament thought proper to prohibit
' tome few years back, as it might be ufed in making
' faltpetre ; and the confequence was, that from the
port of Liverpool, which was in the habit of ex-
porting 30,000 tons of rock falt annually, only
' 1 110 tons had been exported fince the figning of the
Preliminary articles of Peace. This fervid to thew
the impolicy of attempting innovationsin the source
of trade. The Hon. Gentleman noticed that there
were at prefent not lets than thirty trading velfels
out of too lying idle; and combining this cir-
cumfiance with the number of our gallant feamen
who were out of employment, and who, if not at-
tended to, might go to other nations to fearch for
bread, he exhorted the Houfe to (pare commerce
until it had recovered its fpirit and vigour. When
a complete dircliftion of all former opinions, as to
commerce, teemed to prevail among men in power,
when treaties were fuppofed to be of no value, it
was to be lamented that the Houfe Biould confent
to let this bill $o to far without appointing a com-
mittee to enquire into the Rate of our trade, and
the nature of our foreign relations. The Hon.
Gentleman concluded with aliening, that this bill
would lay nearly a double duty on our (hipping, if
the expense of the feveral articles ufed in building
and repairing !hips were taken into account, and
that too at a time when the value of our fhipping
was materially reduced.
The CHANCELLOR of the Excti scursa faid, he
heard with much concern the fentiments of the
Hon. Gentleman. He indeed thought it impoffible
that any perfon could, under the prefent eircum.
fiances, oh ed to the principle of this bill ; and if
the Hon. Gentleman's oppofition was not to the
principle altogether, his oppofition in that Rage
`of it was irregular. He heard the opinions of the
Hon. Gentleman with regret, becaufe coming
from the Reprefentative of a place where capital
had been to fuccefsfully exerted dining the war,
and the inhabitants of which were as Jiftinguith-
ed for public fpirit and patriotilin as any part of
the Empire ; but the Honourable Gentleman
`ought to confider, that the fairell principle• of
taxation was to diftribute it among the differ.
I eat claffes of the community according to their
relpeftive capacity ; and that the greater (hare of
the public burthen (b wild fall upon thofe wliofe
profits had been increafed and saugmented hri
the tattles which-produced the neceffity for laying
on thofe burthens- . It fhould he remembered that-,
the Convoy Duty was not originally impofed as
the price of the aausl attendance of convoys, but
from the conlideration j!ift Rated ; for by the
attive and gallant exertions Of our navy, the -I
mei-el:ants found it fate and vary to carryon their i
trade to any part of the world without the pro.
teftiiin of a Ihip of War, yet the merchants ever
cheerfully contributed to the tax. The quellion.
now was, whether there was Inch a mange of cit.;
ct:m:tances between the time at whichth.tt tax-was
laid on and the prolent, as lhould it,:itice thelltnife
to abandon it ? 'Mai: f r the necedity for this tax
was lb fir done away as to difpofe Parliament to
deprive the State of this ;mini& ,ant bocce of re-
venue ? It was remarkable that tiri objedion had
been made to the principl.t of thi- tax lot the fats i

three years 'al:a that notwithridnding this preffure,
of which the lion. Gentleman complained, the
commerce of the country had, under its operation,
DOOR materially improved. The Right Hon-Gen-
tleman read an extrAd from a paper laid before
the Houle at the elofe of lad Serf-ion, to Phew the
progrels of the cot-mut-I-cc of the country fince the
year 1792. This paper dated the exports in
Colonial product in t 793 to amount toJ9,ooo,ociol.
in 18ot to 29,92 tapool. Qf Britifh manufaaures
in 1793 to 18,000,0001. ; in 18ot to 24.,t0ct0,0001.
Of foreign merchandize in 1793 to 6000,00a1. in
18ot to 17,000,0001. In 1793 the number of
!hipping employed in trade 16,000, feamen
121,42 e ; in 1831, Blipping 18,898, feamen
143,000. The Right Hon. Gentleman obferved,
that theeatell incroaf:. in there feveral items was
during the years 1800 and !Sot, when this tax
was in operation ; and as our trade was, notwith-
Handing, found In confiderably to increafe, it was
a fit lubjed for grave deliberation, whether the
Houle would now allow of filch an important de•
Ideation of the revenue as the cetration of this
tax would produce. As to what our commerce
would in future be—all that could be raid on that
fubjea might he called the language of fuppofi-
Lion and conjedure. but he could not feel any ap-
prehenfion, that this country would not be en-
abled to maintain that footing in the commercial
world the had hitherto held from the fuperiority
of her capital, her fpirit of entermize, and her
good faith. Thefe might, as or. a former day, be
termed fine words—fo they were ; but they were
alfo folid principles and inconteflible fads. Thefe
were the grounds,of that pre-eminence which made
it difficult, if not abfurd, in any Power in thf.-
Univerfe to enter into competition with her.. The
Hun. Gentleman talked of the danger of our (Lip-
ping being diminifhed in number and value ; but
without meaning to make any invidious compari-
lons, the Houfe would furely recoiled that from
the difficulty of finding even fufficient (hipping for
an important expedition in a quarter to which the
country would be difpofed to look with molt anxie-
ty, no alarm would be entertained on that bead.
The extenfive employment of foreign (hi ping
arofe from this obvious caufe—the amazingly en-
larged (cope of our commerce, which our own
(hipping, though fo numerous, were inadequate
to Cup* ; therefore, our Merchants were obliged
to have recourfe to the velrels of other nations ;.
fuch was the plain folution of that which feemed •
fo much to furprife the Hon. Gentleman. With,
refpea to the complaint of the Hon. Gentleman,
that this Bill would grant an indulgen-c to Ireland
that would be injurious to England, he requefted
the Houfe and the Hon. Gentleman to confider
the difference between the capabilities of die two
countries. It was unneceffitry to enter into a mi-
nute explanation to prove the great diffimilarity
between them. Would to GOD that diffimilarity
did not exift ; he hoped the time would come
when it would be done away, and that every branch
of trade would be equally enjoyed by all parts of
the united kingdom. From the inferior capital of
Ireland, it would be unfair and illiberal to make
fuch charges upon her as fhe could not endure.—
Some years mug elapft before (he can become
qualified to meet that fyftem of taxation, though
from the (irides the is capable of making, he truft-
est thofe years would not be many. It was grange
this charge of partiality to Ireland was not made
laft year, though' that country enjoyed the ex-
emption the Hon. Gentleman now walled to re-
move; indeed Ireland was never fubjea to the
convoy duty.-.He did not with it to be undertlood
that it was his intention to propofe the continuance
of this exemption under all circumflances. The
Bill was altogether a Bill of Experiment ; and if
the Irith Merchants fhould be hereafter found :tble
to bear this Tax it fhould be extended to them ;
and if it fhould operate injurioufly to the Englifh
merchants it would be abandoned entirely. In.
(hating that Wales and Scotland were fubjea to
all the duties impofed on England, and afking why
therefore Irelind fhould on this occafion be ex-
empted, the Hon. Gentleman was miftaken ; for
if he would enquire farther, he would find that
Scotland was free from feveral taxes prevailing in.
England, among which were thofe on beer and
malt to a certain degree, and that on felt. There
were in faa many differences in the application of
the principles of taxation to England and Scotland.
The ftapation of our export trade arofe from
caufes that were perfealy obvious, if not to the
Hon. Gentleman, at teal to the inerelnititc ; it
was merely a fufpenfton of trade, proceeding from
the with commercial men very naturally felt to
avoid the circuitous route in which they were
obliged to convey their goods during the war, and
in the daily hope that the conclusion of the ne-
gociation for peace would open to them a dired
route. It was quite true, as the Hon. Gentleman
Hated, that the price of freight would be much re-
duced, but by no means true,that the Blip owners
would on that 'account, or even in confequence
of this tax, be likely to lofe, for if the reduCtiOn
in the price of feamen's wages, of provilions, in-
furance, and the feveral articles of outfit should
be taken into the Hon. Gentleman's calculation,
he would find that the (hip owner's profpcd was
not In unfat;ourable as he now feemed to Ilippofe.
The Right Hon. Gentleman begged the Houle to
recoiled that this- tax had now been tried and
I found produdive upwards of three years ; it was
now brought forward in pltrfuance of the advice,
sand after a confultation with fome of the moll in-
telligent merchants in England; bad hecn feveral
weeks in agitation, and a cootie it was.not liable !
to the epithet of a rafh or hady meafiire, is‘tlie
Hun. Gentleptan Hated. In the Committee, How-
ever,
.it was intended to propofe fume modifica-
tions..in this Till; .and the fuggeftion of any -thing
whielf coula:tead to the accommodation of the
Merdliants world from him, and lie had no doubt
fr,orn the Corrlnittue; meet the molt refpeaful at-
tcntion. As it was propofed in the courfepf the
ntift Sett,bn to..confolitiate all, the Cullom:, Cm•
denten would have an opportunity of reviewing
all the items of this Bill, and might then date their
realons how far the trial had been unruccefsful.—
Thit, with the means he had Hated. Would fervc,
lie hoped,' ;_o reconcile the Houfe to the adoption
' a this mealure, and prevent them from being ii

flaeneed by the arguments of the Hun. Ger.tt-.
man, which, .hOwever fpecions, be relied, %%ere
without force to perfuade them to allow a gr:at
branch of thc.puhlic revenue to be fritteied :may.
On the lubjeel of 'the linen trade of Ireland, Cie
Right Hon. Gentleman took occafion to
that it was intended to equalize the duties on flax
and linen yarn in England and Ireland, a pi.,l
wrongly recommended by a fente of jualee t.) the
Englith manbfaaurer—the Irith manufaCturer had
heretofore too much the advantage in this poim
General GASCOIGNE role to explain, and iig.l:ll
alluded to the liipulations made between Great
Britain and Ireland, by the A& of ;786, whic;lhe
confidered as binding on this country.
..The CUANCP.I.I.OI2. of the EXCHEQUER, in rei..!‘,,
obferved, that England had at that time the pow,
of granting a boon, and the gave to Ireland th::
light to trade in her colonial produce, under cer-
tain Ili/Ml:aunts. But the At of Union, by put-
ting both countries on an equal footing, completely
did away the Ait of i7e6, and all the Ripulations
annexed to it.

Sir ROBERT PE k fa:d, it was with great TT-
illetaTlCe and diffidence he role to fpeak againit ti.e
prefent Bill, when he confidered that thofe
had brought it forward mull have had v.eigliry
realons for doing lb. The fituation its which the
country flood now was very different from vs-h-t
it was in time of war, when we had power oy,:r
atmoft every post in Europe; and when our
rivals in trade could not meet us in foreign mar-
kets. If heavy duties were now to be laid on ;I:,
manufactures of thi; country, the foreigners, «hv
were in the habit of uling them, would get err.rn
at a cheaper rate from other countries. At tr:.
time the Convoy Duty had been laid on it met wig;
his approbation, becaufe lie confide:ea it iteeeffir y
at that particular critic, and Ire thought it would
have ceased with the war. If the inequality
duty with regard to England and Ireland, lac.:
as was proposed by the Indent Bill, fr.,-uld
place, it would be pi ()dative of great injury t
the manufadures of this country. From the irru.
ation of Ireland, the local advantages fhe paffeffed,
and the comparatively low price of provisions arra
labour, the rum of teoel. employed there in nr.l•
titnitaures would Lc much mrre produdive than
the fame fum here ; and therefore he wifi:d rise
Houle to confider the consequences of the pre:•.•:c
nteafure, which, in his opinion, trenched up.on tire
Ad of Union, and went to Shake it to its very
foundation. The 6th Article of the Union aated,
that both countries were to be put on av
footing; but it never meant that Great Br.t.t.n
fhoulif worfe lunation than Ireland.

Mr. CORBY obferved, that the Bill was noWag
more than the continuance of a tax which had al-
ready exiftcd, and under. which the trade of tht
country had Hourithed in a very high degree. Ile
could not help giving it as his opinion, that L.,;.!
Of thofe dangers (tilted by two Hon. Members ‘ve;i•
to be apprehended from the meafere ; and with
regard to what was called the Colony CompaCt
1780, that was an Aft by which the Sovereignty
of Great Britain did at the time impart to lielanl
a right to trade to her colonies under certain con•
ditions, by which Ireland was at liberty to enjoy
that trade as long as the chore. But that cornpaft
was completely immerfed in the Aft of Union : it
was completely annihilated by the compaft of tl.e
Union, which was an Union of the Sovereignty of
both countries. At the time that compaet seas
Made; the countries were feparate and Min&
but as foon as they became one kingdom, filth a
compaft: could no longer exift ; and theretOre
could not now be binding on either of the parties.
It fhould be fairly underilood as a principle of the
Union, that the rights of the two countiies we:-e
the fame. Tile article of the Union quoted by the
Hon. Baronet related to the rights of trade. Tl,e
prefent meafure was a mere quet}ion of taxation.
It was much to be wifhed that no diflinition what•
ever remained even in regard to the taxation iez-
tween England and Ireland, but that both coan•
tries hid been placed on an equal footing ; but in
palling tht.A4l- of Union it had been found neccf-
farY to regulate the taxation of Ireland in a diffe-
rent manner from that of England, the tourer
country was to pay a much (mailer proportion.—
The Exchequers of both countries were different ;
it could nor,. therefore, be contended that there
ought to be a fimilarity in the taxes of both. Le
defied the Hon. Baronet to thew that the taxes of
Ireland ought to be equal to tilde of England,
and therefore he was wrong in taking his groned
for that equality on the Aft of Union. 'rile taxes
of both countries were different in their objeft
in their amount, and were to continue lb
twenty years longer. It was abfolutely neeeffary
therefore that they fhould be feparate, in order that
they might be in favour of a country which Figs
unable to undergo fuels a weight of taxation as
preffed on Great Britain. In faft, it was his opi-
nion that the circumaances in which Ireland flood
at this time were fuch as could not jade the Un-
polition of fo large a duty on exports and imports
as that to be paid by this country. In the coarir
of a few days he fhould have occafion to lay before
the Iloufe dude taxes which he intended to propeft
to be laid on Ireland, and then he would endea-
vour to convince the Hon. Baronet that the wholr
of his argument was without foundation ; but lir.
Would now endeavour to remove the fears %dial
the. Hon. Baronet had entertained for the fates: of
the cotton manufacture of Great Britain, by
a few facts. The quantity of cotton wool inipoi tea
into Ireland in the courfe.of one year, did net
amount to more than the value of 17,0001. while
that imported into Great Britain was equal to
fun' of 2,391,9111. the value of the manufaain..il
Cotton exported from Ireland in one year ea,
more than 12,1351. the value of that exported ft ~.n:
Great Britain, in a year, amounted to 4,175(.;:
and of dick goods fo exported, a quantity c 1 •••
in value to 140,0001. was fcnt annually t' .1:e:•1!
for the confumption of that country. It
."':
therefore very likely that Ireland would enter U.
a competition in foreign markets with this UY
for a fpecies of manufafture, of which file
large a quantity. He was happy to hear the
Baronet lily, that tocol..could be laid out tlh 1:c•
Lind in the cotton trade, to more advantage .
;r1 this country : he was happy to hear hirr:ci:

luau
re•

pc.it the expreffion ; for he hoped it was true, and
that it would lead to the encouragement and: ex.
tett ;inn of manufahories in Ireland; and when that
Should be done, the two countries might be put on
an equal footing. At prefent, he trailed that Ire-
land would turn its indullry and capital to agri-
culture and die linen manufahure, and while it
did fo, the cotton manufacturers of England could
have no fears for their trade.
Lord SHMILLD obferved, that the exemption
eninyed by Ireland in regard to taxatiOn, related
only to articles of internal confumption ; but this
exemption was nothing lel than a bounty in favour
of frith tonnage, to the prejudice of Britifh ton-
nage, and to the &fit-Utica of our glorious (yam
of navigation laws.
Lord Casratasaou faid,he wifhed to fee a per.
felt equality in point of taxation between the two
countries ; but according to the rate of taxation
now in Ireland, the prefent was a fair proportion.
The apprehenfions of an Honourable Baronet for
the cotton trade mull ceafe to have any foundation.
when it was known that the cotton manufaltures
of England came into Ireland in the very fate of
a duty nearly prohibitory, to the amount of
rao,oool. So far from looking forward to any
competition of this kind as an inconvenience, he
did not even confider it as a refource is point of
revenue.
Mr. W. DuNDAS Paid, that the difference in tax-
ation now propofed was not new in its principle.
Such difference trilled in Scotland long after the
Union between that country and England ; sad
in fame refpetts it exilled at this day.
Mr. Boum raid the intended tax on tonnage
would be a great harellaip to the (hipping inured,
whole property had already fallen in value about
Jo per cent. The tax would be felt as a
.perfonal
tax on the fhip.owner, who in many !finances
could not throw it on the merchants. If it were
permitted to petition arainft a tax bill, he had a
petition then about him from his conftituents,
againft the bill, which would be feverely felt in the
eaftern ports of England, from which the voyages
were Short and frequent, and where veffelsmult-be
liable at each voyage to the payment of the duty.
Mr. DILHT confi&red the tax as highly impolitic
and dangerous at the prefent time, when it was ge-
nerally underftood that France would not enter
into any commercial treaty with us; but on the
contrary, appeared Jefirous of
h excluding. the ma-
nufaores of this country from her territories.—
A Noble Lord oppolite to him had obferved, on a
former night, that commercial Treaties were of no
bre. He wilhed to know what was now to be un-
derftood with regard to the commercebetween this
cwintry and France ? He had heard a report,
sliw:h be believed to be true, that an Englith (hip
bad lately attempted to land a cargo of goods in a
french port, but was obliged to pat back again
ithitut being poi mitted to enter the place. This
tax wanks Shackle our trade in Such a manner that
we Zook; 11..ve rivals flirting up to underfed us in
every forsigu market.
Lcrd Hammel:as. Paid he Should not have
troubled the Houle had lie not been particularly
alluded to by the Hoti. Gentleman who fpnke lak.
He never did fay that Commercial Treaties were
of no life ; but he Paid that in many points of view
they were of lefs confequence than was generally
imagined. He confidered them as nothing more
than as regulations which might be beneficial; but
as to commerce itfelf, the advantages refulting
from it mull reft on the mutual convenience and
Lucre as of countries; and upon credit, capital, and
confidence. It was not always neeefara fur two
nations to enter into commercial treaties ; they
might carry on an extenfive trade without them.
This country had no treaty either with Ruffia or
Holland ; and although we had made a treaty
with France in 1786, our commerce with that
country had at all times been inconfiderable cons.
pared to our trade with Holland. No refufal took
place on the part of France to make a commer-
cial treaty with this country. The truth was this
—(and he had now no hefitation in Stating it) that
it was found abfolutely impoffible to renew the
treaty of 1786, without fach alterations and mo-
difications as mull have taken up a (pace of time
that migla have caufed a confiderable delay in the
Signing of the Definitive Treaty. S, me objec-
tions exifted againit this treaty in France, and a
great many on the part of this country. It was
smpoillble to apply the fyftern which now exitted
in France to the treaty of 3786. We could not
renew it without giving up fume of thole prin-
ciples concerning maritime law for which we had
lately contended-with Such fuccefs —On the whole,
his Majefty's Minifters had thought it better not
to fufpend the late negotiations by introducing
Cle topic of a new Commercial Treaty, but leave
it as a quetlion of fubfequent arrangement, par-
faularly fo, when the various alterations and con.
Talons Which France had undergone, mull ren-
der many alterations in that Treaty neceffary.—
tut the 'trench Government had not evinced to
this Country any indiipoittion towards renewing
that Treaty.
Sir RALPH MILSANIC and Alderman CURTIS
were againft the Speaker's leaving the Chair.
Do‘ctor LAWRENCE laid, this was merely a c0m-
m.:1.6.e. regulation, the principle of which was, that
t..e butthen, it any, fhould fall equally on each
,••otrv- objeaed to the laying of duties on
L..: raw materials, becaufe the,rices of many ar-
t,clws (naval tiores for inftance) would be railed
io high as to be alma deltruative to our commerce.
He laid he had within a day or two been informed
from good authority, that there was at this mo-
ment a general Ragnation its the trade of this coun-
try; and burthenibme regulations of this kind
would make it work. It was not in much for the
Like of individuals, as of the public, that he then
(poke againft the Bill.
Mr. ALZIANDER lupported the Bill.
Mr. H. LASCIELE thought there Should be a
difference in the tonnage duties on veffels that
made Short and than that made long voyages.
Mr. Wiass s emelt was of the Came opinion.
H. obferved that the duty was generally taken
ohanever the velel cleared out of port. Now
thine velliels made fix v,.y ages in a year, and otl ers
47one; In that a veil-el trading to Holland wont('
i; a: times the duty to pay with one trading to

Turhey..Aftex this the gallery was cleared of,
ftrangers, but no divifion took place. —The Houfe
then went into a Committee on the Bill:
Several amendments were then propofed and
agreed to.
Mr. S. Tootles-on moved an abatement of one.
half of the propofed mom duty on Blips going
to the coatis of Germany, Hollani, and the nearer
ports of the Baltic, as he thought it very unju ft that
they thould be charged with the fame rate of duty
as fhips Kohl to North America, the Weft Indies,
and the Mediterranean.
Mr. VANSITTART replied, that by the treaty
with America we were compelled to put her ref-
fels on the footing of the moll favoured nation,
confequently if we remitted the duty on thefe (hors
voyages, we mull forego a proportionate part of
the duty on Bridal (hips bound to America, or
give a preference to American flips over Briti(h.
He prefumed the Hon. Member did not complain
of the amount' of the propofed duty, but of the
COMtarative proportionoptich will not be amended
by his motion. If, hereafter inconvenience thould
be found, the Legifiature would always be open
to application ; but he was convinced the burthen
(neeefary as it was) would not be found to fubjea
the parties on whom it fell to the inconvenience
aprehended.
Mr. Wsissasoecs replied to MTNAISSI ?TART,
and fupported Mr. T Hoe W roes amendment, which
was, however, negatived without a divifinn.
General GASCOIONS obferved, that Ming vef
fels would be liable to pay the duty, and had
hitherto paid the Convoy Duty. They did not
come under the defcription of Coaling Veal:, be-
tante they did not clear out from one port to an-
other. He was fore it was not intended to tax
therm

The CHANCILLOII of the Exch sq:_usa replied,
certainly not. He did not conceive it equitable
that vetch employed as they were (Mould be taxed
The Bill having gone through the Committee,
the report was ordered to be received to-morrow.
Adjourned at half-paft ten o'clock.

I.ONDONd

tizimisDAY. APRIL Z.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
re C. Cad mow. yg—Gar May mount, 74.
Italoadl plis4Vo rz e,
iCrda1....,5 per C.IOA--
Oldj pa C. 4-4-001 a Ann- 21 9-16..

PRICE OF STOCKS TISTERDAY :
Bask Stock 195 1671 Short Ann..; z-z 6
; per Cc itcd. 7sll India Stock sa64
3 pa et. Coal ;7 7611 hUh 6 per C. zed 1011
4 per Com ssS gill Eschat BULL, is. to 4s. prom
SpaC. A. 103 zed i Cousiom im 31 Fan. s
per C.A.O 1797 zoi zest Calf. for 771
Um( AWL ss Ira 744 Mb s pa Cam...

GPM* 47
Llibon yof
Oporto 72
Pokemo 90
peas per 00.
Dobkin es

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
lungtadam, zo 16 sU. Cadiz 371 effea.
Moat Wm NI la Madrid 33i pslur
Rotterdam, tot sU. Ditto 38* de&
Hamburg' 3s tt si U. Mom efft&
Altos& .13 o sU. Ledo= 32
Cadls 331 is paw Naples 44
Irwik t dales allega odd'. ellemailli s Uf. 23 to by.
Hoursiesss • s Uf. 23 IS UV.
Yak% S 7 Lions Pink MEM per tl.

It is generally underitood that on the day of
General Thsrakfgiving. cm the tft of June next,
the nee will go ia graad procesion to St. Paul's.
The Thankfgiving is to be on the fame day in
Scotland as in England...-(See the Proclamation
in the laft Page.)
In onr Parliamentary report will be found forge
important obiervaticass by Lord HAIVRISSIMY.

on the fubjea of commerciahreaty between this
country and France. His Lordthip remarked,
that in the new circumitances in which France
and England flood with regard to each other, it
was not polEble to sailors the former Commercial
Treaty as it was, and the negotiation of a new
one would have &etched to too great length to be
entered upon pending that of theDsfinitiee Treaty.
We underaood his Lordfltip to have raid, that the
afair had hitherto not been brought into dikuf-
fion, rather than that the French Government had
declined altogether to enter upon it. The matter
therefore remains open.
This day we received Paris Journals of the 24th
inft. Their contents are not very interelling.—
furs Confers& 57 fr.
It is the intention of the French Government,
in the event of the reduction of Bt. Domingo under
the authority of the Mother Country, to hold out
an encouragement to Three Thoufand European
Families to fettle there, for the double purpok of
repairing the deftruflioti of European manners and
I civilisation, and forming a counterpoife to the
power of the Blacks.

The ROYAL FAMILY came to town yelterday
from Windfor.

Her MAJIIITY% next Drawiatßoom tsar&
pond to lliurfday fennight, on account the
King's Proclamation tomorrow.
Hi> Royal Highnefs the Duke of Kin? arrived
at Falmouth on Sunday catalog laft, to embark
mi board the Isis. of p guasyfire Caretaker. The
Isis had not then arrived. in aoakquence of the
wetlerly winds. but was boodyeirpeeed.
Lieutenant Colonel Caattrrnaas. of the dill
Regiment. arrived at Pottfmouth in the flap 80.
nito, from Alexandria. and WI from Malta.
The Ri %Ist Hon. Earl FITZWILLIAU is appoint.'
ed High Steward of Hull.
The Hon. G \OROS Homers'. of Dont:after. u
appointed Governor of Grenada.
Lieut. Dies klt, tithe Vote** has been tried
by a Court Martial, and fentrueec to be difrnifred
the fer-ice, for killing the carpenter of the faid
I So many law arrangements are talked of. that
`the Theatre Royal. Wtilminfier Hall. will open
for Fader Term with an entire new kt of prior.
I awn, new drj s, and decorations.

CORN MARKET.

`MARK-LAME, AP.IL 28.

No arrivals of confegnence have taken place fence
Monday. and the prices remain without any al-
teration.

Basao.—Yeiterday the LORD MAYO% ordered
the price of Bread to be continued the fame as laft
week, •itt. tod. the quartem of wheaten, and M.
houfehold.

The preparations for the Illumination which is
jo take place to-morrow evening, after the Pro
claiming of Peace, are great beyond any thing of
a fimilar nature which we have ever feen. The
devices are the mot fplendid we ever beheld as
well as general. Every one feems to vie who shall
be the moll magnificent. The occafion certainly
difpofes all ranks of people to difplay their zeal.—
The Bank of England will be lighted up all round.
The tranfparent PiCture, occupying the fpace
betwen the two central columns in the principal
front of the Bank reprefents Britannia feared ;
her robe of war is cart aide, and her helmet, shield,
and cuirafs, lying by her, thew that the has re.
cently difarmed : the is faluted by Peace ; and Mi.
servo, as her Counfellor, Rands near her Tribune,
while the pyramid immediately behind this
group is a type of that (lability which her
Government mull acquire from fuch an union.—
Britannia ftretches out her right hand to receive
'asir, and Geniut; while the other holds a
Cornucopia, the emblem of that abundance which
heft correfponds with the liberality of her views.
This allegory exhibits the Brit Nation under the
aufpices of Peace, impelled by the wifdom of her
Councils to call into utiful ation the corporeal and
intelleetual energies of the country : a condue at
once moll worthy of her chara&er, and molt ca-
pable of remedying thofe evils which are infepa-
ble from a Rate of-warfare.

Such precautions have been taken by the LORD
MAYOR and other Public Magiftrates to preferve
order, that, fhould the weatherprove favourable,
what with the ceremony and procefflon of the
Proclamation. through the day, the tranfparea.
cies, millions of •variegated lamps, and myriads
of tapers and flambeaus, all fancifully difpofed at
night, it will be a molt memorable day.
The following Notice has been iffued by the
LORD MAYOR :••••
The LORD MATO". begs leave to ileool2 his Fellow Citi-
zen', and the Inhabitants or the Ciry in general, that the public
Proclamation of Peace is smiting to be made on Mornay,
the spa Day of April Mont, tad takes Ms appeednity to
result that they will allied Yid their heft allibere in his en-
deavours to pdaysgsed Geier daring &BMWs paged of the
Preeethas, and the anritedur In the eveeisg. And to this
end the LORD Month host tha ftria injundkions to the Peace
Meets, and their Allem% is take care that a. Injuries are
committed ups the palms or prop wry of any of the inhabi-
tants. And has alto thread droop Coaches, Cans, or other
Carriages, be fulfered to *and or remit in the pthicipal thews
*roses which the Premien Is to Pds."
bioa firft entertainment of this
ntedey • was even by Mrs. Pows of Gla-
. at Hanovertquare Afembly.Rooms,
011 night. The essellany confined of a&-
leaks °fel& hundred friends and acquaintances.
The tickets were not transferable; no Dominos
were admitted; and the brilliant fuccefs of the
night proved the judicionfnefs of her (peculation.
At eleven o'clock the manes began to affemble,
ad every room was completely filled by two.—
A more lively, diverfified, and milling fcene
cannot be conceived than the rooms prefented
from that hour until five in the morning, when
the company began to feparate. In its variety of
theatrical charafters, it was a reprefentation of the
whole force of the nage; in its collation of trades,
profeffions, and callings, it was an epitome of
England; in its affemblage of Turks, Jews, Spa-
niards, Indians, &c. it was an epitome of the
whole world. All the nations of the earth being
now reconciled in peace, one might fuppofe, from
the joyous fcene, that it was a meeting of their re-
prefentatives, to join hands, and pour out their
heartfelt congratulations. It would be impoffible
to enumerate all the excellence of the company,
and it would perhaps feem invidious to fele&
any particular portion of them for praife.—The
few, therefore, which we (hall notice, we mean
as a (ample of their fafhion and dyle. The
charming hone(' of the night fupported feveral
charallers, but principally a rimier, in which (he
proved herfelf a real friend by her care and atten-
tion to the happinefs of her guefts. Prince Wi
Liam of Gloucener fuftained the charafter of a
&silty with great fpirit ; Lord VAL time and Lieu-
tenant Colonel Cosuas, as Covistrymes, with their
wives and daughters, formed an interefting runic
Ih A rifissirid and a Flower Girl were well
bed by Mrs. and Mifs HARVEY COMEN. Sir
WYNDHAM Dawmo was an Wan Owl Lord
andLadyDa Seinen wort beautiful fancy dreffes,
and Lady Boca wrote was a molt interefting tlia•
/sr. Sir ifif. V.TiMPIST, being anxious for a flice
of dile delightful esteriew, prefented himfelf in the
neat of leis bioaoas, the daughter of the Loan
Coarsely, but the Ceritrar of the place loon dif-
covered the nonvordance of the perfon with the
Holm. A &repo alfo, who was not duly au-
tbarifed to claim admittance, was turned out; and
a Chem had nearly glared the Caine fate in an at-
tempt to carry in the exiled heron ponhis back.—
Renal:nests of every kind were (creed in the up-
per apartments.—Reels and firathfpeys concluded
the entertainment.—The rooms were not entirely
cleared until (even o'clock. Among the other
principal &natters we noticed were &
Mr. ltatterr . Dr. 011epod
Mrs bluer ow - An Indian Prince('
Mr.Torteste • A few Broker
Mr. H.MassLL A lialo.Dreffer
Mr. Mimeses. I. • A anforiess Old Maid
Mr. DT morrow - • Potaioan
Mr. °AMMAN - Mai Teen••accilent
Mr. Cy Tessa? - Falb!
MaClassameLL3
Mar- DA j%acre
DAR Poster Jonas • ftwonskre
ber. Id as • A Toth
Mee Man is A very waft hash
MD Pa.. . . Aa fauw
Mr.T. Puma At theillent Ftiq
Calms' Lunt - A Ted& Mow
Otheval Attaed - A
liselkasa c 1110=10116

i.

DEFINITIVE Tit Arr.

•

We hale been favoured with a copy oftlt.c De-
finitive rrtaLy, Ati it will be laid before Parli met,r.
It is printed both in French and Englilh. We have
very carefully compared the tyanflation whicli
inferted in our paper of the 54 Weft. with the Of-
ficial Englilh Copy, and we end-no difrerence of
the lean importance to the mcirting, fo far a; re-
gards translation. We therefore confider it un-
necetrary to republifh it.
There is one or two variation, indeed, material
to be corroded, but they are ffich as we are not ac-
countable for. They lie between the French copy
in the Moniteur and the French copy ',tinted here
by Authority. In the article VII. in the dip:lh-
tions refpeding the frontiers of French and Por-
tuguefe Guiana. it is Rated in our ft-imitation,.
4' The boundaries of French and Portugnefe Guiana
are filed by the river Arawari, which empties it-
felf into the Ocean ABOVE Cape North," &c. ; the
French word in the Moniteur being au delis:. In the
Englilh Official Copy it is " Mow," &c. The
French being printed as deAu. From this we ten-
elude that the Moniteur of the 27th, from which we
translated our copy, has by an error of the profs
put au &fur for ass &jou:.
In paragraph three of article X. refrieding
Malta, there is a very important variation between
the French and Englilh copy, as we f?nd theni
printed together. It is faid, The Municipal,
Revenue, Civil, Judicial, and other O%ies under
the Government of the Wand, !hall be filled at
kart in the proportion alone half by *he inhabi-
tants of Malta, Govs, and Comilla,' In the French
it is merely Natant • fo that by the Englilh, " Na-
tives" alone are admitted= whereas In the French,
any adventurers who may be " inhabitanti," may
hold places, fo that the regulations to preient in-
triguers getting into office with the meat=s of com-
mitting treachery as before, are in Tome meafuve
null by the French copy, though they are in
full vigour according to the Englilh ons-
appears to be important. The French word "
&tutu" certainly does not imply fo much as the
Englilh " Native Inhabitants."
We obferve too, that in the article XV. re-
fpeding the fiffieries on the coalt of Newfound.
land, there is a flight variation between the official
Englilh copy and the official French copy, and con-
fequendy our translation taken from the latter.
After mentioning that the fifneries are placed on
the footing they were before the war, it is Rated
in the Englilh copy " the French Elia-men, and
the French inhabitants of St. Pierre and Mique-
lon, shall have the privilege of cutting wood," &c.
In the French, it is the French fiffiermen " of
Newfoundland," and the inhabitants§ &c. let Pe-
elteurs Francois de Terrenetroe, dlu hokum. Thera
verbal differences may in future produce difputes.
Thefe, however, are the only variations of any
confequence that have occurred to us.
We have fubjoined a copy of the feparate article,
which has not hitherto appeared. It regards the
novelty of an Englifh copy.' The variations itiore
noticed are the more important, as between France
and England the Englilh and French are of equal
authoritt. The circumaanee of the Leo of
GREAT BRITAIN being placed firft in the Englilh,
and the Four Cousin. in the French copies, is
well underftood- They Rand refpettiielyfo in the
refpettive copies given to each potvef, fo' that in
fad no recognifed precedence is allowed to either'.
The date of the treaty is certainly the 27th, though
the Afatiteurabfurdly publifhed it on the 27th, with
the date of fignature the 25th of March.

The following feparate Article to the Definitive
Treaty above alluded to has not yet been publi fired :

It is agreed that the omiffloo arcane Titles which may hast
taken plate in the prefent Treaty.fhall not be prejudicial to the
Powers or to the Perfons concerned.

It is further agreed that the Englitt and French Languages
made ufe of in all the copies niche prefect Treaty Mall not form
an example, which may be alledged or quoted as a precedent,
or in any manner prejudice the Contraaing Powers whole
Languages have not been tired; and that for the future what
has been obferved, and ought to be übfcrved, with regard to,
and on the part of Powers who are in the practice and poffef-
(ion of giving and receiving copies of like Treaties in any other
Language, bail be conformed with ; the prefent Treaty having
neverthelefs the fame force and virtue as if the aforefaid prac-
tice had been therein obferved.

In witnefs whereof, we the underwritten•Planipotentiaries of
his Britannic Majefty, of the French Republic, of his Catholic
Mikity, and of the Batavian Republic, have figned the pnsf.nt
feparate article, and have canted our refpcdive feats to be af-
Lied thereto.

Done at Amiens, the twenty-few/Ith day of March, ore
thoufand eight hundred and two; the Sixth Germinal,
year ten of the French Republic.
(LS.) CORNWALLIS.
(LS.) JOSEPU BONAPARTE.
<L.%) J. NICOLAS De ALMA.
(LS.) R. J.ScHnimiLrENNINcX.

It would be an acceptable fervice to the public,
if the volunteer bodies would form themfelves into
(mall patrole parties, and to walk through the great
thoroughfares, without arms, but in fuck force as
to prevent the fcandalous outrages which are per-
petrated during an illumination—inch as firing
piliols and crackers into coaches, cutting the
traces, frightening horfes, and to the obvious dank
Ezi:4fletting fire to the drelfes of ladies, who too
dy venture out in muffins. Perhaps it
would have been prudent to have faced no car-
riages in the ftreets at all, even at night.
His MAJESTY'S grand favourite cream coloured
charger, ycleped Adonis, will, to-morrow, be
beftrode by Sir JOHN EAMEIt, Lord Mayor of
London. His Lordfhip will ride in great pomp,
attired in his official robes, attended by his City
Regalia, to Temple-bar, and meet the Weitminfler
proceffion. The feene will be very magnificent.—
All the regiments of Militia, the Eaft India Volun-
teers, the Bank Volunteers, &c. will be called out
and line the (trees.

The City Carpenters were rellerday fent to era.
mine the gates of Temple-bar, previous to their
being thin to=morrow. We hope the Heralds wi
take pity nn their rnincms condition, when thty
come to demand entrance by a loud knocking.