Star. — 1811-05-02 (London, England)

LIABILITY OF MILITARY OFFICERS TO INCOME-TAX.  Colonel GREY'S Petition to the House of Commons, on the subject of the liability of his Pay to the Tax upon Property, Professions, &c. was presented on the 9th ultimo, and ordered to lie on the table. It appears on the Votes of the House on that day, as follows :  " A Petition of Colonel JOHN Gain way presented and read, setting forth:—  " That he is not in the receipt of the whole Pay attached to the Regimental Rank he is row in the fifteenth year of being employed in—his professional Pay and Income being curtailed of the tenth, by the Tax upon Property, &c.; and that for a series of years, (knowing that the same is foreign and abhorrent from the unvaried practice of these realms, as exemplified in the Statutes of the Ist, td, and 3d of William and Mary, and the Ist of Anne, c. 15, in the which Acts," all subjects, of whatever rank, are made liable to a Tax upon Property," &c. similar to the present, " such Military Officers who are se shall be in muster or pay in their Illajestie's Navy and Army, only excepted; and the Ist of Anne containing an additional exemption to superannuated Sea Officer's) the Petitioner has regarded the present subtraction from his pay as a grievance heretofore unknown ; and praying for relief. " Ordered—That the said Petition do lie upon the table." The above is the exordium of Colonel GREY'S Petition, which contains in substance what has already appeared in his printed letters, in addition to some new matter ; all which bear more or less strongly on the great point, that the Pay of the Officer ought to be restored to its pristine state ; for certainly, until the present period, England never taxed directly the Pay I of the Officer.  General GASCOYNE'S recent luminous endeavour to remove this modern oppression from the profession, has entitled him, to what he can not fail to receive, the gratitude of his brother Officers; of those especially, who necessarily are the most numerous, to whom the maintenance or pay which the State affords them, is the principal and ordinary fund of their subsistence ; and it certainly is a wide aberration from the suggestions of good policy, that that maintenance should not be fully adequate to its end ; for the proper performance of every service certainly requires, that its pay or recompense should be, as exactly as possible, proportioned to the nature of the service ; for if any service is very much underpaid, it is very prone to suffer by the incapability, inevitably result' ing therefrom. :y •  At the Easter Quarter Assembly of the Corporation of Dublin, on the 26th ult. Messrs. HARTY and J. K. JAMES were elected Sheriffs, and Mr. Alderman ARCHER Lord Mayor, for the ensuing year. An aldition of LOOM was voted to the salaries of the present Lord Mayor and his predecessor, Sir W. STAmta, in consideration of their splendid hospitality during their rcspectiv? Mayoralties. The Freedom of the City was then voted to Gen. GRAHAM Thanks were also voted to hins and the heroic troops who fought at the battle of Barrosa. The Freel.,na of the City was also voted to Capt.WlLLiast VERNER, Ht tit: 7th dragoons.  NAVAL INTELLfGENGS.  PLYMOUTH, APRIL se. The SCEPTItf, 74 guns, arrived yesterday frcm off Brest. This afternoon arrived the Wilyri::‘ schooner in 11 days, from Cadiz, having left that port on the 19th instant ; and bus frigate, from off Brest. Put back the PIEnCER gt1:1-brig, hound to Basque Roads. Sailed the Taarantlx, 18 guns, with a small convoy fur Halifax ; and the PaowinENce hired brig, with 30 transports and merchant ships for the E .stwArd. _ _ .  A seaman, belonging to la Rhin frigate, was tried this day for striking the First Lieutenant of the Princess Charlotte frii,ate. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged.  Francis Esca, the seamap, lately belonging to the Prince merchant ship, who was shot by the Mate of that vessel, while attempting to go on shore withoat leave, (as stated in the Stmt several days ago) died at Plymouth of his wounds, on SAturday The Ma'c absconded at the time ; but means to deliver himself up for trial. The Coroner's Inquest have brought in a vet dict of wilful murder. _  Several boats of fine tnackarcl have been Mt brought in here fer more than a week past, am, sold at the low rate of from four to eight foTr-une shilling.