Star.
London, England, 1803-06-29 00:00:00

SOUTHLIN WHALE FIIIICRY SILL.

On the motion being made, that the Houfe Ihould then go into
a Committee on the Southern Whale Filhery Bill,
Mr. Lee Bated, that it appeared to bins and feveral of his eon.
nitumts rather a hardfhip, now that we were to be confidered as
one united kingdom, that a bill Otould pats granting bounties to
Britith thip, employed in that trade, and that it was not extended
to Ireland alto.

Lord GtCNaravlO übferved, that the fum given could not ex-
ceed to,ocol. and that in many inflances the whole had not been
paid. In the year Int , and feveral times fince that period, money
had been paid to frith ihlps employed in that trade, provided they
firit touched at a port in England. What he alluded to was before
the Union ; and in his opinion no bounty could with propriety be
paid either before or fince the Union, under any other eircumftm-
ces However, if the Hon. Gentleman who frolic laft, or any
other Hon. Member, could point out any mode by which that
difficulty could be obviated, ►e would feel kimfelf extremely hap-
py in having an opportunity in the (=Heft degree to teftify Lis gra-
titude to that People with whom he had the honour of being for-
merly conneeted. The °Made which he fuppofed lay in the way
of what tie Hon. Gentleman intended was, that the money was
taken from the individual revenue of the Britifh ports, and there
paid to the petfons engaged in that article of commerce. The mo-
ney was not taken out of the aggregate purfe of the United King-
dom; and, being paid in that manner, Britifh merchants would
expect that they were alone entitled to a bounty paid out of their
own revenues.

_ . .
Mr. Lac laid, if that were the on'y material objalion, thehoun-
tics tobe paid to Irith Blips might be paid out of their own reve-
nues, payable wi•hin their own ports, in the fame manner as the
bounties to britith [hips were paid out of the revenues of the Sri-
tab ports
Gm. ral GASCOY e remarked that there was not at prefent,ac-
cordirg to the belt information he could receive, one Blip bel ng-
in; to coat t art o the United Kingdom engaged in the trade to
which the Bill gave the bounties in queftion. He had not the lull
obje.ftion that bounties, and every [hipping regulation, fhould be
extLnded equaly to both countries. Betide that, the Hon. Gentle•
man had nu rijit to iarticipate in what has been ellublithcd here
for years.
Mr. Le r laid, that the prA-nt law had prevented many fpecula-
tions in that trade, and inlitted, that in a cafe where a merchant or
two pained 4 or socl. by bounties, as was frequently the cafe, it
would be of v, ry great lervice to a merchant trading with a fmall
capital, or trading with perhaps nearly the whole of his capital
fun', in enterp. . The obtaining of fuch a (um under fuch
was an oljet'l of importance; and it appeared, on the
c of it, tioaccouniabl.• how the fu: jee'ts of one part of a king-
dom could lweiiii.l,el to that prt ference over thole of another part.
I be quettion was then put, and the lloufe refolved into a Cum-

hlr. I,rr then kbrnitted a Chide to the Committee, which
rant to ratenil the houitti,e to ha (hips, and to be payable in the
tame nistim r tnt re a, they are here to Britith.
The Con" oi of the I: ace Fity CR begged to fet his Hon.
Fund er.t in point ni form. In the prefent Rage of the !intim('
it was ineentiftent with the rules of the Houfe that any Clat.fe
Ili-oi' hr dd,d. The Cntnmittee might be ptiftgroned, and in the
interon an InftrusEtion might be moved to be given to the Commit-
ter to t ell, et. lt he merits of tin. intended Claufe wou!el then
he dikulled ta the Houle.

then reftimeti, and the Rcport was ordered to be
into cooll,icr Hon to-morrow.

Tht CHAMCk LA Olt of the Exciito2ira rcfe to take
notice of an order, which the Houle had made yd.-
tcrday on the motion elan Hon. Member then pre-
:ent. tot the production of certain papers prefented in
the Ihape of memorials to the Lords of the Admi-
t•ity. It was his intention now to move, that that
ortli.r be (..!fsharged. It was with regret and furprife
he learned fuch an order had been`made. The ac.
cuftnined pia:lice of that Houle was, that all mo-
taais iiitci:dtd to be made upon tubjefts that might
produce a u teotTi.in, and particularly on fubjefts
ssh c't in ;hem vcr) fcrions charges againft
receded by a n.P.; -c. In the
p rf i oia.tocc nn n,tice WAS given; it Was ,TUC the
I :ion. .tertal.o.r had communicated to him (Mr. Ad•
inith tin this fubjedt, and his iutention to

:notice ttc motion ; and as he had received no answer
to this communication, he probably thought the mo,
tion would not be objefted to. If he (Mr. Adding-
ton) had known yeflerday of the motion, it would
not have palled without objedions from him ; not
becaule no previous notice had been given, but be-,
'mire no Parliamentary ground had been laid for
making it. It was a rule of that Houle, that before
any motion could be agreed to, a parliamentary
ground mull be Rated, particularly in the prefent
Hance, when the tendency of the memorial that was
moved for would be to throw a grofs imputation on
the charailer of the Court of Admiralty, and upon
the Government of the country, for permitting thole
ads which that Court was charged with having done :
and for having taken no Reps to enquire into the con-
duet of the great Law Officers belonging to that
Court. He would contend, that the imputation
againa thrife Hon. Perfons was wholly unmerited;
there was nothing improper in their condud. Same
irregularities might have taken place ; but if tl.ey
did, they were afterwards corrected, when his ilcn.
and Learned Friend who fat near him (Sir William
Scott) came to prelide in that Court. It was, there•
fore, nothing more than what he owed to that molt
refpc.ftable Court, and to the Government, of which
the late Adminiaration formed a part, to move that
the order made yefterday, for the produCtion of the
memorial in quellion, be now difcharged.
Captain COCHRANE entered into a hiflory of all the
circumstances which give rife to the memorial, the
whole of which it is unnecellary for us to detail. He
laid lie had taken a great number of prizes, against
which appeals were afterwards made in the Admi-
ralty Court of this country. The caufes came into a
courfe of invefligation ; and for a long time he was
prevented from attending to them. At laft, when he
came to exaniihe into his affairs, he found the groffefl
negled had taken place in the management of them.
He found that he had been precluded ftont profecut-
ing tis appeal by fuch agents as be might think fit
to employ, and that the King's Proftc,r had not only
taken upon himfelf the management of his cattle, but
that he was alfo employed by his adverfaries to at
againit him ; the caufes were decided againll him ;
and by that means he not only loft his prizes, but in-
curred a marl enormous expellee, by the extravagant
bill of coils, charges, dec. brought against him. In
confequence of this, he called a Committee of Naval
Officers, who were all interefted in, and affefted by
thefe decifions. They all confidered that the intereft
of the whole British Navy was at flake. Several
other Officers were in the fame predicament with
himfelf. They found they were denied the liberty of
employing their own Proftots to defend their claims.
He could prove to that Houle that the King's,Pi oc-
tor monopolized to hirotelf the right to conduff their
caufes, contrary to their content ; and that he not
only did fo, lout he got ferret agents of his own to aft
as Pro tors on behalf of the oppofite party ; tome of
whom were the enemies of the country. The Hon.
Member read feveral papers, in which thefe fads were
Rated ; and as he was proceeding,
The CHANCELLOR of the Each EQSEEL role to (peak
to order. He Paid, he fhould objet to the produetion
of the papers moved for yesterday, hecaufe no Parlia-
mentary ground had been laid. But now, while the
Houfe was debating whether there papers were to be
produced or not, the Hon. Member availed himfelf
of the indulgence of the Houle to read the very do-
cument which was objet ed to.
Captain Coclf tax le laid, he thought he had a right
to read thefe papers as a pat t of his argument, in or-
der to induce the Houle not to difch ge the order.
The SPEAKER Paid, it was control), to order to
bring to the knowledge of the Houle the contents of
a paper, the produdt on of which it was doubtful whe-
ther the Houle would agree to.
Mr. HOWARD contended, that the Hon. Gentle.
man was in order, and to Thew that he was, lie would
quote a cafe in point. At the time when an enquiry
was made in that Honk telative to the expedition to
Ferrol, a Right Hon. Secretary of State read a letter,
which was one of the documents then moved for, and
he was nit. prevented from reading it. •
The Caeactd.Loit of the Exc soy ea defended the
conduit of the Hon. Secretary of State. He had in
that inflance fir ft read his extracts himfelf, without
the Houle making any objeftion, but that did not bind
him to lay the document on the table. In the prefent
inflance the Houle were deliberating on the propriety
of receiving or rejecting a paper, and in the midll of
that diicuffirm, an Hon. Member reads it to them,
before the Houle were determined in their decifion as
to its reception. The cafes were not in the fmalleft
degree to be confidered parallel.
Mr. W. Duwoas admired the perfpicuity of the
Hon. Member who defended the order of fuch a mode
of proceeding. The Hon. Gentleman fuppofed that
the Houle would admit a paper to be presented di
redly to one fenfc, at the lame time that it was ex•
petting its ftrong dtfapprobation of submitting it to
the operations of another. They flould be ftippored
to have not the !call objection to hearing what they
fo flrongly oppofed being (hewn to them.
Mr. Kaufealan raid that there was an cfrential dif-
ference between reading a paper and laying it on the
table. In the comic of an argument an Hon. Mem•
ber might find himfelf oppofed in fuch a way, that
the belt mode for him to reply was, by the reading
of a paper which, by its being the chief fublat mat-
ter of the debate between them, would belt support
his argument, if he had previoufly given a cot red
(Lament of its contents. But, by la) ing a paper on
the table of the Houle foniething more w•as done;
for the Houle then admitted it as a fair document en
which to ground their proceedings relpeding the ob-
ject to which it had reference.
The CHANCELLOR of the ExcHaos)t obferved,
that any other paper but that, the receipt of which
Was then difiliffing, in his opinion, might be fairly
introduced in ftipport of the Honourable Member's
argument;

Col.
BA STAID fupported the opinion of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer.
Captain CotHIANE declared again that it was not
his inclination to aft in the lean manner in oppofition
to the opinions of the terpeflah'e Members who had
fpoken on the lithjea, and on whole atilltro it y 1:e re-
lied, that he was not lilting Meow; ilent with the resu.
laCcrts of that Honfe. He fliould theickre lead allo.
ther paper or two in fupport of his complaint. Ile
flinnlci, however, Bra deny that the precart-es h'
comp Lined of had l een icrneJicd. The I:jog's Prrt-
tot and his partner, indeed, had fcpxrate honks after
fume interference had been made; vr f,m...ozdv

ed ; but 1111 things went on in nearly the old way.—'
Some officers almorl ruined themfelves by the enor.
mons expellee of prize caufes ;—and, as an inllance,
he would (hew them one of the Proctor's bil!s— [He
here produced it.] He had heard of taylor's
and of apothecaries' bills too, but he never heard or
faw one that equalled that bill. There was a caflz
alto he recolle&ed of a tidy having been taken undzr
Danith colours, as fair a prize as ever (truck to hist
Majefly's flag;.and that, he recolloled, was flipport-
ed in an appeal made by the fuppofed or avowed
owner, by the fame dtfcription of people, againft hie
Majelly's officers. He felt himfelf pleading his own
cattle, he fel4imfelf the advocate of his brother of.
and he gloried in Lying that he was endea-
vouring to fupport the caufe of the whole Britilh na-
vy, who relied on the jullice and liberality of the
Houle, that it would afford them protection. Hz
hoped that ether flame plan would be adopted, that
every tmto might be at liberty to choofe his own proc.
L )r, or ells that the number of King's Prod-tors won!!
be augmented, if the employing of them was not to
be avoided.
_ _ _

Dr. Laultsue!, in a fpeech of great ability, cor.
reeled the want of knowledge of the forms of tl:
Houfe, erhi:!, he faid had been difplayed by the gal.
lant officer. He then made a Rrong appeal to 1:1;
feelings as a man of honour, whether it was right :5
libel perfons in a place where they had not t!:e
p ,wer to deLnd theinfclves. He Rated alio, that
tor wife confide.rations the Couftitution of the coe:•
try had laid it down as the law of that Court, th tt
Prostors' fees fhould be regulated in firth a mann::
as that they would have an interefl its the conders.
nation. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman
then concluded with a Rrong and elaborate defence
of the character and condud of the Proetor and h,:
partner, and declared his hearty affent to the motion
of the Ri,ht Hon. Gentleman who (poke firft in the
debate (the Chancellor of the )exchequer).
Mr. Jon x STONE could rot allow that no Parliarn:m
tary ground had been laid by the Honourable ,m 1
gallant Commander in fupport of his motion. lie
contended that the Houfe bad the cicarell right to
militate inquiry in all cafes Where they thought
fences of a public nature had been committed, and
certainly the cafes which bad been Rated were well
dcferving of examination. That it was quite sm.
feemly for the King's Prnetor to conduit one fide of
a cattle and his partner the other, was denied on ra
side, and the Right Hcnourable Judge of the Admi-
ralty Court dekrved the thanks of the public for or-
dering the parnerfhip to be diffolved,
The CHANCeLLOR of thip,,Excoeqyra explained,
and intitied that the Honourable Gentleman had nei-
ther Rated fulficient Parliamentary grounds in making
his motion, nor halite yet fltewn fufficient grqunds
why the ordcr following that motion fhotild not nnw
be difcharged, for the reatons already Rated to the
Houk.

Sir WILLIAM Scoff fpoke in behalf of the King's
Proaor, and the proceedings which took place rela-
tive to the prize caufes. He obferved, that thole who
turned out to be their own lawyers, frequently found
themfelves deficient in talents. A greater fyftem of
juilice bad never exifted in any tribunal, than in that
wherein the prefent complaints were derived; com-
plaints which might create fufpicion in weak minds,
to the injury of refpeiftable perfons. The only con-
federation the Honourable Member had for fuppofing
that collufive meafures had been ufed during the tri-
als of the caufes, was merely becaufe the fame were
defended by the King's Proaor. It was not upon
the information to be derived from the hangers on
about a Court, the Honourable Member was to form
luipicions fo injurious to perfons of the higheii cha-
racters. Suppole even there had been an undue in-
tacit tiled, there were other means of redrefs thatt
an appeal to the Houle of Commons. If a Gentle-
man found his attorney had overcharged his bill, he
could not reafonably make appeal to Parliament;
there were other ways to procure justice, and justice
in all inflances would undoubtedly be found, it pro-
perly fought for. Was the Honourable Member to
bring in a bill like a taylor's bill, and beg the Houle
to cut the fame fhort with their (hears ? The Hon.
Member had complained much refpeding the velfels
called the Black ,joke and Poor gad ; he had only to
fay on that point, that if they had proceeded longer
than they did in the bufinefs refpeaing thous wilds,
there would have been added Come feet more in length
to the Honourable Member's Bill. He was furpriied
that a petfon poll-aired of the fenfe which he knew the
Honourable Member was, Ihould have doubted the
honour and justice of fuch a refpeeable Court. If
the Honourable Member was not fafe in their hands,
in what hands was fafery to be found ? He obferved
that he (hould difmifs the fubjea with giving a piece
of advice to the Honourable Member, np,mely, in
future, to repofc his prize interells iu the hands of•
thole whom the Government of the country had ap-
pointed to that, and without apprehenfion. He de-
fcribed the purenefs with which prize caufes were
conduaed, and concluded with obferving, that the
good fenfe of the Houle would fee the impropriety of
tile appeal, as one of a mifchievons tendency.
Sir STEPHEN LUSIIING row laid, that as he was onc
of the perf;ms who had been alluded to in the tooth,
o. the prelent clifeuflion, as being the late partner of
h s Majesty'. Pro tor, he felt it his duly to fay a few
words in his own exculpation. It was utterly iropof
lible that any collulion or cruet agency could have
existed. He thoroughly believed that the whole Bri-
tish Navy were perfealy latisfied with the condua of
hi, Majelly's Protlor. The King's Advocate was the
pylon confulted on all occasions, lo that the Proaor
became as it were the mere machine to carry his ad-
vice into execution.. With regard to. the allegation
of the fees charged again(l the Hon. Gentleman being
exorbitantly high, he could allure the Houle that they
were at prefent much lower than 3o years ago.
Mr. Huasr thought there did exift, at one time,
Come caufe for comp!aint, when his Majtfty's Proaor
and a Partner had joined in carrying on both fides of
fuch extensive queltions as came before the Court
Admiralty. lie, however, thought, that that Houle
w•.ts not the proper place to have thole grievances
redreffcd.

Mr. BASTARD fpnke arzainfl the motion; he (aid
be had himfclf I'm) applied to, during the fitting
Parliament, by thirty or forty Captains on this rub-
jeEl ; but the advice he gave them was, that no red: cfs
was to be expcfted from Parliament, and that they
night ruin thunfelves by the appli:.,tN'm,• as th y
wntild pr,d).6ly draw down the vengeance of the
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tent on the remedying abates.
The ADVOC•TIRIIIRRAL (Mr. Nichol) replied to
the obfervations of the lafl fpeaker, and faid the ob•
fervation, as to the danger of drawing down the
vengeance of the Admiralty, was belt anfwered by
a fa& ; that Capt. Cochrane (the mover of this quer-
tion) had not been difmiffed the fervice, or had fuf-
, fered any injury in his profeffion, on account of his
bringing. forward this Memorial.
Captain HARVEY was of opinion, that this was a
proper qiieflion to be enquired into by the Commit-
fioners already appointed for that purpofe, as it was
particularly provided that they fhould enquire into
the abufes relative to Prize Caufes.

Mr. WILEERFORCI thought, that if ever a motion
deferved to be received, the prefent one was of that
defcription. The objeflien to it relied merely upon
the high charafter which his Majeßy's Proftor bore ;
at the fame time it was admitted, that the thing in
itfelf was highly indecorous. No fewer than 207 cafes
had been Rated. It was not necelfary to fay that there
caufes ware not vigoroully defended, becaufe on what-
ever fide they ended, confiderable gain would arife.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHICky ER faid, it was
not true an application had been made to the Board
of Admiralty, and difmiffed by it without attention :
it was referred to his Right Hon. Friend, who had
diffolved the unfeemly conneftion complained of.—
His for moving the ditcharge of the order. pro-
ceeded not only from a confideratton of the cafe, but
from a regard to the regularity of proceeding.
Mr ALEXANDER and Sir W. Geaav were againft
the motion.—The order was then difcbarged.
The Additional Excite Bill was read a third time.
On the queltion, that it do pats,
Colonel HurcHINSON rote to oppofe it, on the idea
that itmilitated very much againft the Ira Diflillers,
and was a dire& violation of the Aft of Union.

LONDON.

WED) /DAY, JUNE 29.

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Mr. Corry, Sir L. Parlous, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Mr. Vanfittart, and Mr. Wickham, each
(poke Ihortly on the fubjeft, and contended, that it
/was by no means in breach of the Aft of Union, and
that the difadvantages to the bills Diftillers were such
as were trifling, and in the arrangements of two
Countries fo fituated could not be avoided.
. Colonel Hurc it in son raid a few words in explana-
tion,and the Bill was paffed,and ordered to the Lords.
ci.eaor assinanca nits.
The Order of the Day for taking into confideration
the Amendments made by the Lords in the Clergy
Refidence Bill being read, the Amendments were
read a first time.
The &rata& called the attention of the Hoofs to
the nature of fome of the Amendments. It was, he
(aid, extremely well known that the Houfe 4 Corn-
inons had ever been very jealous of the privilege they
claimed of originating all Bills of a pecuniary
nature ; that one of the Amendments jult read, ins-
poled a fine of nos. by way of penalty, which was fo
(tiredly in the face of the Privilege of the Commons,
that be fuppoled fome Gentleman would rife in his
place, and move that there Amendments be takes
into confideration on fome very diftant day.
Sir Ws. SCOTT laid, that he was fenfible the
amendments alluded to by the Speaker were an in-
fringement of the liberty of the Commons, and he
accordingly moved that thee amendments be taken
into confideration this day three months.—Ordered.
The Bill was of courfe thrown out.
Sir Wist.tan Scorr then rote and Paid, that as the
privileges of the Houfe bad now been maintained and
fatisfied, and as the BiU just rejeEted on account of
filch amendments as were of a pecuniary kind, was
of the higheft importance to the community, and as
it was neceffary that the provilions it contained fhould
be carried into drat as fpeedily as poffible, he moved
for leave to bring in a bill to the fame purport.
The STRAZIR, kid, that the Houle having attend.
ed to its privilege, it certainly had been the ufage of
Parliament in cafes of great importance, and cereal's-
ly none could be more fo than this, to give leave for
a new bill to be bought in en the •fame fubjeft.—
Leave was thensiven to bring in the faMe:
SCOTCH ARDST RS S amt..
The Houfe went into a Comnsittee on the Scotch
Army of Referee Bill.
The Seca avaar at WAR laid that the Bill was
Seedy fimilar to that for England. The principal
alteration being the quotas to be railed in the differ-
ent Counties in Scotland. It had been originally
framed on the fame calculation as that for England ;
but on confideration he found it would be better to
let the quotas be regulated in the fame proportion as
was adopted on railing the Militia in Scotland. The
Report was then brought up and agreed tu, and or•
dered to be further confidered to-morrow, and the
Dill to be printed.—Adjourned.

The intelligence from Holland, given in this Pa-
per yefterday, announced officially, that the Beta.
via Reprifie, at tie Ally of Inure, it •i4rd to tab part
ix tie pleat veer. Need we remark that Spain alto
is the Ally of France, and bound by treaty to furnifh
?hips and men to that power, in cafe of war with any
State, whatever and that as fear as it (hall fait the
convenience of the Curer Comm, it will alto be
obliged to declare its intention openly in the fame
manner as Holland has done. As the Ally of France
it is obliged to do fo. That being the cafe, found
policy certainly demands, that under the prefect cit.-
canallances, and in an affair of fo much importance
to this Country, we &mild cnnfult our own fafety in
preference to the coevelience of the Cm... Consul..
By our Falmouth letter it will be teen, that about
a hundred and fifty Spend:it veffels mull, at this time,
be on their parfage from Is Plata to Spain, all tidily
laden. It would indeed be convenient for our eos-
in's. to Won the arrival oldie treats*. Aar, ought

we to fuffer it ? certainly not. The fame policy that
dated the detention of the Dutch vefrels, before that
power had abfolutely declared the part it was bound
to take in the war, calls loudly on Miniflers to follow
a fimilar line of conduet refpeeling Spain—and the
country looks for it. This is not a time for danger-
ous civility. There certainly could be no harm in
conducing there veffels into Britifh ports, and detain.
ing them till the intentions of Spain be declared.

We have received the Paris Journals to the 25th
inclufive. The Monisear of that date prefents our
!aft Budget, accompanied with a comment drawn up
in the ufual Confular flyle. Our Readers will not
fail to obferve, that in this prodation, the tax upon
income is reprefented as a tax on the Funds. For this
idea, however, it is but fair to confefs, they were in-
debted to a blunder of fome of our contemporaries,
who at Brit viewed the tax in that light.

PARIS, JUNE 24.—The FIRST CONSUL fet out yef-
terday for the Departments of the North. He will
reach Amiens on Saturday evening.—Moniteur.
The Moniteur gives a Statement of the receipt and
expences of Great Britain for the year 1803, accord-
ing to the fall budget of the Chancellor of the Ex.
chequer. The different articles are accompanied with
remarks by the French Editor ; and the whole is in-
troduced by the following obfervations
6. We Shall here give the budget which was prefent-1
ed by the Minifters to the Englifh Parliament. It
requires no (mall degree of fagacity to difcover the
real Situation of England amidft the forms and ob-
fcurity under which it purpofely envelopes itfelf. The
reafon will there be ken why this Nation has been
at length induced to tax the 'ltalic float! a nieafure
which may be claffed along with that which authori-
fes the Bank to fofpend its payments in calls. There
united meafures are the cries of diftrefs, and the in-
fallible precurfors of bankruptcy.
41 In 1802, the Eoglifh Paid; that thirty-five years
of peace would be neceffary to pay off the national
debt; and yet in 1803 they have been Co inconfide-
rate as to kindle up the flames of war, under frivo-
lous pretences, and without any real motive, imagin.
ing, no doubt, that they will always be able to termi-
nate it at a prciper time. We (hall here exhibit their
Situation, fuch as it was eftablithed by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer before the war. During the late
war they increafed their expences 13 millions Sterling,
from 1793 to 1802, as is proved by the annexed
ftatement—expences which cannot be leffened without
many years of peace and profperity.
[Here follows a Statement of the receipt,and ex-
peaces of Great Britain for the year 1803, according
to the budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
—The Monireur then gives the amount of the ex-
pences relishing from the Increafe of the public debt
of England from 1793 to 1803, and the produa of
the duties granted to pay the intereft till the sth of
January, 1803, with the following comment.]
4, The eStimation ofthe duties granted daring there
ten years was 13,557,6681. the deficit was 774,2911. the
deficit on the laft year deferves the molt ferious
atten-
tion.—This year was a year of peace, and yet the de.
cit *as 5,205, (tool. Reding). Some politicians have
thence concluded that the date of profperity to Eng-
land is a Rate of war, and that in peace the expendi-
ture of this power is far below its income. If this
confequence be jot we ought to deduce from it ano-
ther confequence of great importance, and very un-
fortunate for Europe and for England itfelf ; which
is, that it is neceffary for the general repofe, to ex-
clude fi om all continental affairs a power which is
never in a ffourifhing Rate, but when others are tor-
mented by the fcoorge of war; and that the focial
(Late of tngland, is in regard to other countries,
deftrudive even of the objet of Society, which is
peace. Let us believe that this nation, which has
been rendered illuftrious by fo many wife men, and
fo many real philofophers, will give up a clodtine,
which though it might be ufeful to it for Tome time,
would at length infallibly involve it in the univerfal
ruin.

" If the ambition and avarice of one power could
dillurb the whcle globe, without being attacked in
thole places where it carries its tyranny. it would be
a happinefs for the world that there &odd be near
it another power capable of checking that ambition
and avarice." ( In this paragraph we fuppofe the author
of the article alludes to our poffellions in the EaR.)
The Mosher► alfo contains the following obferva-
titins upon his Majelly's Me(rage refpeding the de•
claration of war againfl Holland
If his Britannic Majelly had ailed with regard to
the Batavian Republic, as he has ailed with regard to
Spain; if, without his having feised on any of the
(hips, either of war or of eommerce,.belonging to the
Dutch, Holland had, in confequence of the treaties
which bind her to France, declared war againil Eng-
land, England might juilly fay that the calamities of
war brought down upon Holland were the confe-
quences of her connedion with France. But his
Britannic Majeßy has.engaged in a war with Hol-
land, by ads of hollility, on the fame day that he
commenced hoililities again& us; and at the very
moment when the Meffage of the King of England
contained a declaration of war again& Holland, So
Dutch (hips were already in t►e Britifh ports, into
which they had been carried, not Iff pHvifeers. but
by brigs, frigates, and cruisers belonging to the royal
navy !—And they will venture to appeal to the opi.
aim of Europe, *Me they do not belitats to con-

mit every ad calculated to excite the jet indignation
of all Europe ! Their public law is enough to lhame
Tunis and Algiers; but it is worthy of them !"
Ju m s as—The fhip Aimable Agathe of Bourdeaur,
on her pairage home from Martinico, was taken by
the ViCtory, of too guns. The Englifh put on board
of the prize (even men, leaving three of the French
crew : the latter feized the veffel, made the (even
Englifhmen prifoners, and carried the veffel into the
port of Gigeon, in Spain. _ _ _

The merchants of Chent have voted the fum of
700,000 francs (30,0001. ficrling) to be employed in
conffrufting flat bottomed boats and gun-boats.
The Municipal Council of Louvain have offered
the fum of 30,000 francs (12501.) for the conftruEtion
of a flat-bottomed boat of the arft clafs.

The Municipal Council of Bruffels have voted two
flat•bottomed boats of the fecond cies.

The Mayor of Dunkirk has caufed to be repaired,
ornamented, and furnifhed, the molt beautiful edifice
in that town, for the reception of the Cuter CONSUL.
In cafe BONAPARTE fhould be defirous to infpeet the
Rate of that port, and to examine it in perfon as far
as the mouth, a barge manned with thirty.fix rowers,
all drefled in white, has been prepared for him.
The city of Turin has opened a fubfcription for
building and fitting out a frigate of 40 guns.