The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-27 00:00:00

sTATESMAN:

EXTRACT from Me PRINTED VOTES of the
HOUSE of COMMONS, of Feb. 21.

A schedule of the duties payable annually for
~very male person detained or employed in the seve-
tat capacities herein mentioned, over and above the
duties in schedule C. No. 1 and No. 2.
For every male person employed as a rider,
traveller, or agent, where the same employer shall
keep or employ one such male person only, the sum
of .11. is.
And where the same employer shall keep or ern-
rlo) more than one such male person, for each the
!am of 71. 10s•
For every male person employed as book-keeper,
~:ice.keeper, clerk, or writer, the respective duties
foilowing, viz.:
If such male person shall be employed by any
merchant, banker, broker, trader, or other person
or persons not having a shop or warehouse for the
sale of goods, Wares, or merchandise, where the same
employer shall keep .or employ one male person only
iii ,ucli capacity, the sum of 41. 49.
For more than one male person in such capacity,
for etch the sum of 71. 10s.
if such male person shall be employed by any
irdor a shop or warehouse for the sale of
resod:. %arcs, or merchalidise, and she business
, .11 be wholly transacted its such shop or ware-
/ :use, where the same employer shall keep or ern.
;00y one male person only in such capacity, the sum
of 31.

quantity of geld exceeding two penny weight 4, and
under two ounces in weight, or any quantity of silver
exceeding five pennyweights, and under thirty ounces
in weight, in any one separate and distinct ware or
piece of goods, is, are, or shall be manufactured, the
additional sum of 21. 66.
By every person trading in, selling any gold .or
silver plate, or any goods or wares in which any
quantity of gold, of the weight of two ounces or op-
t wards, or any quantity of silver, of the weight of
thirty ounces or upwards, in any one separate and
distinct ware or piece of goods, ic, or shall be manu-
factured, and by every pawnbroker trading therein,
selling gold or silver plate, or goods or wares in which
any quantity of gold or silver is or shall be manufac-
, tared, or taking and delivering out pawns of such,
plate, goods, or wares, and for every licence to be
taken out by every• refiner of gold or silver, the addi-
tional sum of 51. 15s.
By every calico printer, and every printer, painter
or stainer of linens, cottons, or stuffs, the additional
sum of .101.
By eery maker of soap for sale, the additional
sum of 21.
By every distiller or maker of low wines or spirits
' for sale. or for exportation, within that part of
Great Britain called England, the additional sum of
101.
By every rectifier of spirits within that part or
Great Britain called England, the additional sum of
51.
I By every dealer .in brandy, or other spirituous

. .
For more than one male person in such capacity, liquors nr strong waters, not being a retailer in any
for etch the sum of 41. 10s. part of Great Britain, or not being a wholesale seller
And if any such mate person shall be employed of, or dealer in plain aquavita oely, distilled from
to transact his business in an office or counting-house malt, corn, grain, barley, beer, higg, or other British
distinct from such shop or warehouse, the further
materials, in that part of Great Britain called Scot-
st.m of 11. , land, the additional sum of 51.
For every male person employed RS a manager, By every person in that part of Great Britain
called Scotland, who shall, by wholesale, sell or
oreiseer, or foreman, or clerk under a manager,
deal in spirits made aed distilled from malt,
overseer, or foreman, the sum of 31. corn,
grain, barley, beer, higg, or other British. materials,
Fur every male Iverson employed as shopman,
warehouseman, or cellarmati, the sum of 31. and commonly called or known ht the name of
Fur every male person employed as's' porter, car- aquavitr, in that part of the United Kingdom, not
ter, or driver, the sum of 31. being a licensed distiller, rectifier, compounder, or
For every artiste person employed as a barge, retailer of spirits, not being a dealer in brandy or
lighter, keel, or boatman, in or upon and canal or
other spirituous liquors, duly licensed for that pur-
Oland navigation, the sum of 11.10 s. pose in manner above-mentioned, to sell plain aqua-
For every male person employed as a waiter to vita only by wholesale, the additional sum of 21.
wait on guests in any tutern, coffee-house, inn, ale- . By every retailer of distilled spirituous liquors or
house, eating or victualling-house, or in any hotel strong waters in Great Britain, not being a retailer
pr loilgina,P.houie, except occasional waiters, the sum '•
of plain annavitz, only made or distilled from Bei.
of 41. ti,.. tish materials, in that part of Great Britain called
And for every male person so employed as an oc- Scotland, if the dwelling-house in which such re-
asional waiter therein, if for the period of six ca. I taller shall reside or retail, shall not, together with
lender months in any year, the sum of 31. !the offices therewith, be raised under the authority
And for a lesser period than six calendar months of the Act or Acts of Parliament for granting duties;
in any year, the sum of 11.. m. on inhabited houses at a rent of 151. per annum or '
For every male person employed as an hostler in upwards, the additional sum of 21. 7s. ; if at 151.
an) mn or livery stable, the sum uf 4i. 100. per annum or upwards, and under 201. the additional.
i Lil i.... 4 ON TOBACCO. sum of 2i. 11s.; ii at 201. per annum or upwards,
For every pound weight of tobacco imported into and under 25.. the additional sum of 11. 155.; if at
Glee Britain, an additional duty of 4d. 251 per annum, or upwards, and under 301. the ad.
DUrtiis ON EXUSIe LICeNCES.• ditional sum of 21. 195.; if at 301. per annum or up-'
For every licence zo he taken out by au auctioneer a ards, and under 4jl. the additional sum of 31. 35.;
the additional sum of Ba. if at 401. per anuem, it xipwarelai, and under 501.
ily every common brewer of table-beer, not being the adilitiinal sum of., r. if at 501, per an.
a •••ntruonlirewer of strong beer, the additlopal sum num, or upward!, the • • sum of. 31. 11s.
,
of 11. By every , pet soit,Atirsy, --the -Husks of any
By every curammas besot,- who theft brew any Royal Burgh, Burgh of Barony, or Regality, in
strong beer, if the quantity of beer brewed by such any part of Scotland, or its any place in any other
common brewer, within the year ending the sth day part of Scotland other than within the Highlands of
of July in etch year, previous to taking out the li- Scotland, limited and described in the Acts in th
cent*, shall not exceed 1000 barrels, the additional case made and provided, shall retail any spirits mad
sum of 15s. ; if the same shall exceed 1000 barrels, or distilled fJom malt, corn, grain, barley, beer, bigg,
and shall not 'exceed '2OOO barrels, the additional or other British materials, and commonly called or
sum of It.; and so progressively up to 30,000 fur-' known by the name of aquevitz in that part of the
eels, and not exceeding 40,000, when the additional . United Kingdom, to retail plain aquavits only, the
charge is 201. and above 40,000, 251. i additional sum of 21.
By every person who shalt first become a common By every person who shell retail such spirits within
brewer of strong beer, the additional sum of fifteen the several counties and districts of the Highlands
shillings, and *Ohio) ten days after the 'sth day of of Scotland, the Royal Burghs, Burghs of Barony
Jul) next, alter taking out such licence, such fur- or Regality therein excepted, the additional sum
ther additional sum as, with the said fifteen shil- of 11. .
bee', shall ainnunt to the duty herein-before di- By every starch-maker, the additional sum of 51.
rested to be pa d, accor!ing to the number of For every maker of any kind of sweets or made
barrels of strong beer brewed within the preceding wines, other than mead, for sale, the additional
year, the additimml sum of fifteen shillings and no sum of 51.
surcharge. By every retailer of British made wine or-sweets,
By every maker of wax candles or spermaceti can- the additional sum of 21. 4s.
dies for silt, the additional sum of 61. I For every licence to he taken out by every menu
By every dealer in or seller of wax or spermaceti facturer of tobacco or snuff, if the tobacco or snuff-
enndles, not b. ing a maker of such candles, the addi. work, w ighed by such person for Vienufeettire, '
Coma sum of 10s. 6d. within the year ending on the 10th of October: pre-
By el ery'chandler or maker of candles other than vious to taking out the licence, shall not have es-
aas or spermaceti candles, for sale, the additional ceeded twenty thousand pounds weight, the additional
sum of It. sum of 1I.; if the sameshall have exceeded twenty thou-
By (eery person trading in, vending or selling sand pounds weight, and not thirty thousand pounds,
eeFee, tea, cocoa-nuts, or chocolate, the additional the additional sum of 11. los., and so on' progres.
sum of ss. 641. sively on every additional 10,000 pounds weight up
By eve's, glass maker, for each and every glass- to 100,000; and then, if the same shall have ex. '
house, the additional sum of 101. ceeded 100,000 pounds, and shall not have exceeded .
By esery tanner within the weekly Bills of Morta- 120,000 pounds weight, the additional sum of 61. ; '
Fey, the additineal sum of 5!. and if the same shall have exceeded 120,000 pounds, I
By every other tanner, the additional sum of and shall not have exceeded 150,000 pounds weight,
21. 10s. the additional sum of 71. 10s.; and if the same shall
By every dresser of lades and skins, in oil, the have exceeded 150,000 pounds weight, the additional*
additional sum of i. sum of 101.
By every currier, the additi'r sum of 21. By every person who shall first heenme a manage::
Cy catty maker of 'STRUM for parchment, the ad. • turer of tobacco or snuff. the additional stertof 11. ; '
Iditional suet of 11. . and, within ten days after the 10th day of October
By every met ister or maker of malt, if the quan- next, after taking out such licence, such further ad.
lily in malt made by such inaltster or maker of malt : ditional sum as, with the Said it. shall amount to .
nithin the year ending the sth day of July in each' the duty hereigetnfore directed to be paid, according
year, previous to taking out the licence, shall not ex- I to the quantity of tobacco and snuff-work weighed
seed '.:) quarters, the additional sum of 21. 6d. andifor manufacture within the preceding year, then&
io in propelling for every additional 50 quarters, ! ditinnal sum of 11. and a surcharge.
luta the quantity shall exceed 550 quarters, when i By every dealer in or seller of tobacco or snuff,
the additional sum is 11. 10s. • ! within the limits of the chief office of Excise in
By every person who shall first become a maltster London, or of the chief (Ake in Edinburgh, the ad-
o: maker of malt for sale, Cie additional sum of two ditional sum of ss.
shillings and al ; and within ten days after the 1 By every dealer in or seller of tobacco or snuff in
sth day of July my, after tal;i• g out such licence, : any other part of Great Britain out of the said limits,
such further additional sum us, with the said two the additional sum of 2s. 6il.
shining, and six *, shall amount to the duty here- By eery maker of vinegar for sale, the additional .
i9-before directed to be paid, according to the quart- sum of 101. i
tit, of malt made within the preceding year, the By every retailer of foreign wine, in that part of
additional um ally() shillings and sixpence, with a (seat Britain called England, alio shall not have an
serchatp. .. Excise licence for retailing distilled seii ituoua liquors
By every Make, of teetheglin or mead for sale, the or strong waters, or a licence ,fir the raiding of
addninnal gulp of it. • beer, ale, or other exciseable liquors, to retail to-
By every Maker of paper or pt steboard, and every reign wine, the additional sum of 51.45.
paper-stainer, the additional sum of 21. By esery re slier of foreign wine, in that part of
By every person trading hi, selling any gold nr Great Brit. in called England, who shall have taken
silver plate, or any goods or wares in which any out a licence fur retailing beer, ale, and other excise. 1

able /ignon, bat shall not /we an wise licence for
retailing distilled spirituous liquors, or strong
waters, to retail foreign wine, the additional sum of
41.4 s
By every retailer of foreign wine in that part of
Great Britain called England, .who shall have an ex-
cise licence for retailing distilled spirituous liquors or
strong waters, to retail foreign wine, the additional
sum of 21. 4s. • .

By every retailer of foreign wine in that part of
Great Britain called Scotland, who shall not hare
an excise licence for retailing distilled api ri mon s
liquors or strong waters, or a licence for beer, ale,
or other exciseable liquors, or retail foreign wine,
the additional sum of 31. Os. Bd.

COitv LAWS.

A PLAIN VIEW OF TiIIS IMPORTANT IttnliF.llT;
ADDRESot..I) TO THE Pi,OPLE OF iiRITAIN..
1: That the risk and' difficulties t,f importation, as
well as the increased consumption incident to a state
of war, hosing for a lime enabled farmers to exact '
higher prices far the products of land. landlords
have also exacted increased rents. .That the rent of
land has in this mistier been generally doubled, and
in many instances more than quadrupled.
2. That independent of the shove causes of high
prices, the act itself of the increase of rent as leases
have fallen in, or nu the greater part of farms held et
.will and yearly raised, hoe further contributed to
this state of things, by putting it out of the power
of farmers to sell at those prices which would other-
wise have been sufficient, and at which competition
would often have induced them to sell.
3. That the high price of subsistence exceeding
what the lower ceders have very generally been able
to pay out of their earplugs, has greatly contributed
to the excessive poor rates. •
4. That the high price of subsistence necessarily
raises that of labour, and thereby of all other com-
modities. That it has accordingly augmented the
public expellees, and been the cease of many. taxes
which would, not otherwise have been requited.
5. That an average increase of rest, supposed at
20s. an acre only, amountsto 60,0(0,0001. levied on
the people in the increased price of their food, in
addition to the other pressure of taxes for the tui-
tional defence. That such a burden alone greatly
exceeds all the national taxes within the same period.
That further, our notional taxes, in great part levied
on the luxuries of the rich, do not affect the lower
classes in the plies of commodities ; but that the
operation of the increase of rent by means of the
increased price of fond, attaches to the hest efforts
of industry, and, following it through every stage,
is ultimately paid manifold by the consumer, and
may he safely stated to have been productive of, and
to maintain the distress of high prices in a quadruple
ratio, or greater than our whole national taxation.
6. That it is a delusion to hold uut to the lower
classes that wages or the price of labour will, or can,
rise in the same extent with the proposed time in the
price of food. That all classes must be sensible our
foreign trade most cease, unless we are able to carry
it on at a cheaper rate than foreigners can do
for themselves. That with the loss or decline,
of our foreign trade, numerous hands must be thrown
out of work, "and in their endeavour to obtain em-
ployment in other manufactures and occupations,
must displace many of those now employed in them.
That the great number of persons out of work in all
trades will inevitably reduce the general rate of wages,
and prices of all work, to the lowest pittance.
7. That, although the price of • labour may rise its
some measure, yet that it will not do so in proportion
to the price of food, has been demonstrated at the
time of the late high war prices of breed and meat,
when many of the ablest hands, both in manufactur-
ing and agricultural occupations, . were driven to the
humiliation of parish relief to eke out to them the ab-
solute supporta( life, otherwise beyond their reach,
by means of anyigerxeae of wages. •
13: That distress must overwhelm the !abodes. po.
pulation. That when labour is at a high price, expe-
rience teaches that the same number of t:ands never
are, or can be, employed; that as abler hands are
reduced to seek interiorempleyments, inferior hands,
and women and children, are thrown out altogether.
hat at a cheap rate of food and of labour al ntay get
•ork and live; but that at a high rate many must
come on their parishes,atid under the controul and in-
spection of parish officers, or starve. That such a
state of things is frightful in contemplation.
U Teat no old woman in the count!), can mistake
the true cause of the increased price of her bread and
potatoes, when, with the field under her nose oat
hid) they are grown, she knows the rent of it has
n raised from .20s. to 21., 31., and 41. an acre,
while all the taxes so much harped upon by farmers
aid landlords are only a few shillings.
10. That the laborions orders of this Empire be.
ieving it the effect of a necessary war have su omitted
ith exemplary patience to the increased price of pro-
visions so long continued on them; and that they
must feel with proportionate disappointment- if such
should now be artificially preserved.
11. That the alleged interruption of agriculture and
want of work by• agricultural labourers has not been
caused by insufficiency of prices; but that it has arisen
out of the unsettled state of agriculture, in conse-
quence of leases having been so long held back by.
landlords, in the insatiate expectation of increasing
rents, and the present wrangling% between landlords
and farmers on this point; till which is decided, the
latter cannot venture to invest their capitals, or enter
upon soy material. operations.
IS. That the complaints of land-holders that they
are oppressed by protecting duties favouring 4,sr sea.
nufactures is a misapprehension : for these matrofec-
tures furnish better markets for toe products of agri-
culture than could otherwise be found for them.
13. That further, agriculture has. especially its
own protecting duties. That the duties on foreign
wines. 'spirits, and colonial sugars, although gene-
rally viewed more as a source of revenue are not less
effectually protecting duties in favour of the growth
of British barley and hops. That those alone out-
weigh at once all the protecting duties in favour of .
manufactures. That further numerous minor in-
stances may be adduced of import duties operating in
favour of agriculture.
14. That the apprehension that by the reduction
of prices the poorer lands will be thrown nut of cul-
tore, rests wholly on an 'assumption of the price or
labour not falling as well as of rent, which has al- '
ready been practically disproved. That when the
cessation of parish aids is taken into the account,
and added to the other notorious fall which Ines taken .
place in the price of labour, it must he admitted
that 'this has even exceeded the reduction that has yet
taken place as to food. That all that is required
between good and poorer land is the due preportiolt
of. rent; and that this may be equally found'whether
good land be at 41. an acre, and poor land at 11.; or
good land at 11. and poor land at 51.
15. That the advantage of a flourishing agriculture
and the growth of food equal to our consumption, is
most obvious. Thbt if Corn Laws and high prices
could really promote this object, much ought to be
sacrificed to Wont of them. But that it is most

By every retailer of foreign wine in that part of
Great Britain called Scotland, who shall hove tak•m
out a licence for retailing beer, ale, or other excise-
able liquors, but shall not have an excise licence for
retailing distilled spirituous liquors or strong waters, •
to retail foreign wine, the additional sum of 21.135.4 d.
By every retailer of foreign wine in that part of
Great Britain called Scotland, who shall have an ex-
cise licence for retailing distilled spirituous liquors or
strong waters, to retail foreign wine, the additional
sum of 11. 6s. Rd.
By every Wire-drawer, or other person who shall
draw, or cause to be drawn, any gilt or silver wire,
commonly- called big wire, in Great Britain, the ad-
ditional sum of 21. •

Halifax Journal, reached town on Saturday to the
2(1 iost. and Boston Papers to the 4th. Niobe,
with Commodore OWEN, General MURRAY, and se-
veral other naval and military officers on board, des-
tined for Canada, arrived at Halifax on the Ist inst.
in 38 days fiom Portsmouth. The determination of
the Cabinet Council, which led to the signature of
the Treaty of Ghent, appears to have been transmit-
ted in some shape or other by the Niobe, as, a few
hours after her arrival, a report of the speedy termi-
nation of hostilities was circulated throughout the
colony, and acted upon with the utmost confidence,
though the day before the greatest exertions were
making for a vigorous pr”secutionof the war. The
Landrail, Lieut. ROCHEFORT, in taking a convey
from St. John's to Castine was attacked by five
American privateers, viz. the Charles Stewart, of
Boston, 10 Sons ; Cumberland, of Portland, four
guns ; Fame, of Thomastown, four guns ; a schooner,
name and force unknown •, and Crozeninshield's
sloop, of Salem. After a desperate action of two
hours, she succeeded in beating off the whole of
them, with the loss, on their side, of a great many
killed and wounded. The Landrail had only one
man slightly wounded. A transport, with 150
troops on hoard, from Bermuda, had put into some
little harbour near Mount Desert, after beating off
two Atnerican privateers. The Furieuse was pro.
reeding to' her assistance.—No less than eight Ame-
rican privateers were known, to be hovering Oast
Castine and the Bay of Fundi. The arrival of our
expedition, under Admiral COCHRANE, at the mouth
of the Missippi was known at Boston ; and the fall
of New Orleans was anticipated, as General J tcx.
son had only about 5,006 men to defend- the place,
and it was not expected that the reinforrements,
amounting to 8,000 men, on.their march from the
southertelthd welter(' States, could join in sufficient
time. Large quantities of British goods have lately
been seized in waggons, proceeding from one State to

owlrreiTollowing Gentlemen Toted .in the Minorit?
on thequegtion re:pecting the Corn Laws, on Thurs-
day the '23d instant.
rAani., Sii W .i. lin Pretherne. EA.^ MarryntLj.
-te:l, Wm. Ridley. Sir M. Moore, P.
Barclay. Charles tral.niiition. J. Onslaw, Serjeant
Hiring, %les. F,qtplitir. James Phillips, G.
/Mild, Alderman e4Fieo aside W. H. Smith, A.
Buttery:.lib, Jos. Hiirvev, antler
Smith, J.
nada,. Hon. L. Lill 111...1, W. G. Smith, .G.
'alter', Charles .0111 1... i ...-a, Sir Holt Smith. J.
•itleraft. J. Lubborli, J. W. Simpson, G.
use, Iti. Hon. G. Hamad, Serve Smith. A.a. C.
Shaw, Sir J.. ..... Abercrombie, H. J. Smythe, J. A.
Hamilton Lard A. Po. •es, Chas. Vyse, R. W. H.
Pitnekiiito:ili, Sir J. Iltiornerslei. H. Smith, W.
IFiine. John Howarth, H. aiu% Slunk Robert
Tieriley,Vl. Ilna.G. Whitbread, S. Shifter, George
Portman, E. H.

We hvave not been able to ascertain the names of
the others. We shall be happy to receive informa•
tiong than wentkg) to complete the li

n consequence o aster Monday
falling this year in March, the Newmarket Craven
Meeting will commence on Monday, the 10th of
April, the new regulations adopted by the Jockey
Club being,that when Easter Monday fails in March
the Craven Meeting shall commence the second Mon-
day in April, and the first and second Spring Meet-
ings to follow in the usual course; but when Easter
falls in April the Craven Meeting to begin on Easter
Monday as usual. .

SECOND SPRING MEETING.—Lord Foley's Osprey,
10st. 3b. against Mr. Terrett's Bluster, fiat. bib.
yearling course.
A fine opportunity now offers to those who intend
ofiltiog the Continent this spring or summer; it is
well known that those who take spncie can nearly
cOves'all their ezpences in unveiling by the difference
between that and paper; whoever, therefore, intends
to travel has nothing to do but to buy a Ticket or
Share in the present Golden Lottery, where 5000
Geiness may be obtained, or Three Prizes of
830.000, on the sth of April, the very day on which
the Property Tax ceases.
('ORN-EXCIIANGE, Fes. 27 —Oar market was well sue-
pind with Wt.tat t Aim from Es•ex. Kent, and 84' Ik, it.e
b of o. rh ons very hefts), at a reductiqu of full 2.. ier
qu cater, nod n ennviderable quo tity remaita onclisnowfl of.—
Harley e.perie. ced a rrduelion 2s.—Oat. Is. prr quarter
ehrnprr.—The supply of Brans iv very ninendast, at a decline
of 2.. per gustier.— In Peas and other articles there is little or
Wheat Rolelish) '44 IS
Ditto (Foreign) —44 74
Rye 3l St
Barley • - 30 1
New ditto .... J. ....
Man
white Peas
Ditto Hailen 42 44
Geey Peas 34 30

96 4i)

Brute
Old ditto
Tick do. 26 36
Old --
Oat"
Floe ditto
Poland do. 9O 26
'Feed ditto lB 24
Fine Inoue ..... ....60 65
Seconds _ 55 60

SMITHEIBI.I) MARK FT.—Fits. 27.
To sink the Ofal. pertness of Ob.
Ike ... 64. tki. w 6s. Od. Heed et Gatti' this day t
Nut.on ..b*. 01. 6, 64. 61. Boob lBBO
Ve"i ... 7.1. Dd. t. Bs. 01. Sheep
prek ... 64. 04. In 7s. 01. Cahn.
Lamb ~.oe. Od. to Os. Od. P 1 ......, 260

Y-MARKET.
Ho/ ...... 41. Oa. M. to 51. -04. 01.
Clover .... 51. Ob. Od. to 61. 64. 01. •
Straw .... 11, lit. Od. to 11. 16a. Od.