gloomy views of the financial situation of the country. It would be highly satisfactory to know that such had been the produce of Our revenues in that very year, when men of great weight and authority in that house anticipated a failure, that instead of the deficit they apprehended, there had actually been a very considerable increase. The following is the general view of The navy THE SUPPLY: not be properly called arrears, as the assess ment for 1810 was to the 5th of April, which in the regular course of collection. Since was only last month, and which sum is now 1804 there had been granted, on account of the property tax, 115,880.000% of which there had been received 107,441,478/ leaving a total arrear of 8,437,5221. There could be no reason to think that the receipts of the property tax in the present year, could fall short of 11,400,000 and when he should add to them the estimated amount of the other 20,307,000 war taxes, he thought he might fairly reckon 4,411,000 on the whole amount of the war taxes for 2,000,000 the year, at 19,400,000. The average pro300,000 duce of the war taxes on customs during the 200,000 last three years had been 2,050,000!. that should be taken at their produce in the present year, added to the 11,400,000/, it would form a total of above twenty millions. £19,258,000 The army, including army for The ordnance 400,000 50,565,200 } 1,600,000 18,000 52,185,000 6,106,000 £46,079,000 He next proceeded to the ways and means for meeting this supply. Total for Great Britain WAYS AND MEANS: Annual duty on malt, offices, and pensions Surplus already voted for the consolidated fund of 1809 Surplus for the present year War taxes Lottery Exchequer bills funded Vote of credit Loan Making a total of 3,000,000 The accounts on the table would shew the committee, that the receipts under the head of stamps, had amounted last year to 3,193,000!. which was an increase above the receipts of the preceding year of the sum of 1,236,907!, 2,661,602 This increase was, in some degree, owing as 4,400,000 well to the collection of arrears, as arising 19,500,000 subsequent to, and out of certain regulations 350,000 which have been adopted on his own sugges 8,311,600 tion in the year 1805, in the act for consoli 3,000,000 dating the duties on stamps. 8,000,000 £46,223,202 which exceeded the supply by £144,202. Having stated to the house the total amount of the grants, he made some observations on the different items. As to the war taxes, they had last year produced 29,707,000/. The produce of the tax upon property actually paid into the treasury in the last year was 13,751,2337. of which sum the assessment had only been 11,400,000. The excess of the receipts above the assessment of the year was 2,351,2331. It would not, however, be reasonable to calculate upon so large a receipt in the present year, as the excess of the receipts above the assessment, consisted of arrears which had been collected with great activity and success. There was no arrears due now of a later date than 1807, and the arrears which now appeared to be due were as follow:-For 1807, the arrears 409,9231.; for 1808, 530,368/.; for 1809, 1,540,750%; and for the present year, 6,241,405/ This last sum, however, could It might here be material for the satisfac tion of the committee, to look to the state of the trade, manufactures, and commerce of the country. The official value of imports last year was 36,255,209. The prosperous year of peace (1802), was only 31,442,318! being an increase last year of nearly 5,000,000/ above the most prosperous year of peace. The exports of British manufactures last year amounted to 35,107,0001. in 1802 they were only 26,993,199,being a difference of be tween 8 and 9,000,0001. in favour of last year, After a few words from Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Rose, and Mr. Tierney, the usual resolutions were agreed to. The parties who had prepared lists for the chequer on the 16th. Mr. Perceval had proloan waited upon the Chancellor of the Exposed to give for every 100. sterling 1307. in the reduced 3 per cents, the rest in 3 per cent, consols. and the party willing to take the smallest quantity of that stock to have the England, and four for Ireland-Two of the loan. The sum wanted is eight millions for lists, Goldsmid and Co. and Baring and Co. having made a similar, offer, were declared On the 21st Mr. Brand brought forward his motion relative to parliamentary reform.. He adopted the course followed by Mr. Pitt in 1782, and merely moved for a committee to enquire into the state of the representation in parliament. The plan which he recommends is to disfranchise the rotten boroughs, and transfer an equal number of members to populous towns which have at present no representatives, giving the right of voting in towns to all householders paying taxes, and in counties to copyholders as well as freeholders; limiting the duration of parliaments to three years; altering the mode of elections so that the votes shall be collected in districts; and reducing the number of placemen and pensioners who have seats in the House of Commons. After a long debate, the motion was negatived by a majority of 234 to 115. On the 21st, a numerous meeting of the livery of London was held at Guildhall, to consider of the rejection of their late petition to the House of Commons. Mr. Favell moved a string of resolutions, drawn up in as violent language as any of their precursors, reflecting on the House of Commons, and on the counterdeclaration of the livery, signed at the London Tavern, in the most opprobious terms; which was eloquently seconded by Mr. Waithman, and others. petition, corresponding with the resolutions, was read to the livery for their concurrence, which was assented to with great acclamations, and ordered to be presented to the House of Commons by Mr. Alderman Combe. A new 1. Resolved-That the rejection of the House of Commons of our late humble address, petition, and remonstrance, appears to us a violation of our constitutional and in disputable right to state our complaints and grievances, and to call for relief and redress. 2. Resolved-That such rejection is an additional proof of the shameful inadequacy of the representation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament; and more -forcibly demonstrates the necessity of a speedy and substantial reform in that hon. house. 3. Resolved-That we have viewed with mixed sentiments of indignation, concern, and pity, the address of certain persons sty. ling themselves an adjourned meeting of Jiverymen, held at the London Tavern, the 4th day of May," inasmuch as the statements contained in that address, imputing to the great body of their fellow-citizens, in common-hall legally assembled, motives and designs to "villify and degrade the legislature;" to" alienate the affections of the people from the government;" to " produce contempt and distrust of the House of Commons;" to "introduce anarchy;" and to "subvert the constitution;" are false assertions, origina ting with individuals who derive influence and emolument from the heavy burthens of the people. 4. Resolved-That amongst the names of those annexed to that address, appear the signatures of contractors, commissioners, and collectors of taxes; of placemen and placehunters, with a long list of their agents, and clerks of their dependants, emissaries of minions. 5. Resolved-That it is undeniable that power, influence, threats, and delusions, have been employed, to prevail upon many to concur in the said address. 6. Resolved-That whilst we disclaim any imputation against the motives of several, who, by gross misrepresentations, by arts of the basest kind, or by downright intimidation, have been compelled to lend their signatures to the said address, it is to us a source of high consolation, that the address carries within it its own refutation, consisting only nies, which those who have propagated them of allegations unsubstantiated, and of calummust know to be groundless. 7. Resolved-That the said address appears to have for its real object the excitement of civil dissention, the increase of public abuses, and the further and fuller partici pation in the wages of corruption by many of those who have signed it, and who, taking advantage of the present unhappy contest between arbitrary privilege and constitutional freedom, have endeavored to confuse and dis tract the public mind, for the support and continuance in place of a corrupt, weak, and wicked administration. 8. Resolved unanimously-That in the years 1679 and 1680, under the infamous government of Charles the Second, the city of London, and other parts of the country, petitioned the king for the redress of grievances, and the sitting of Parliaments. : hat various counter-petitions were presented to his majes ty, expressive of their abhorrence of the said petitioning, as tumultuous and seditious, and encroaching on the royal prerogative. That on the 21st of October, 1680, the Parliament met, and its first acts were to expel abhorrors, and to pass a vote, "That it is, and ever hath been, the undoubted right of the subject to petition the king for the calling of Parlia ments and redressing grievances; that to traduce such petitioning as a violation of duty, and to represent it to his majesty as tumul tuous and seditious, is to betray the liberty of the subject, and contribute to the design of subverting the ancient legal constitution of the kingdom; and they appointed a committee " to to inquire after all those who have offended against those rights, and accordingly expelled several of its members, and petitioned his majesty to remove others from places of trust." That on the 29th of October, 1680, the Commons voted "That Sir F. Withers, by promoting and presenting to his majesty an address, expressing an abhorrence to petition his majesty for the calling and sitting of Parliament, hath betrayed the undoubted rights of the subjects of England; and that the said Sir F. Withers be expelled the House for this high crime." That for the exercise of the undoubted right of petitioning, the city charters were seized by a quo warranto; and it was argued for the city by Sir George Freby, then recorder, "That the constitution and the law of the land had given to the subject the right of petitioning, and of access to the supreme governor, to represent to him their grievances, and to pray a redress of them; and that the same law gave them also a right to state in their petitions those facts and reasons which caused their grievances, provided those facts were true." And further, "That as there was one part of the constitution which gave the king power to prorogue, so there was another part of the constitution that gave the subject an original right to petition for redress of grievances; and that therefore to punish a man for shewing in his petition those grievances which he desires to be redressed, and the causes of them, was the same thing as to deny him the right of petitioning; and that such denial would infer oppression and the most abject slavery; for, when subjects are misused and grieved, and are denied the Jiberty to complain, and pray the king to redress those grievances, or shall be punished for petitioning against them, they must necessarily be abject slaves." 9. Resolved-That these arguments having been overruled by venal judges, judgment was obtained against the city; the abhorrors for a time triumphed; the liberties of the people, with the right of petitioning, was subverted; and the succeeding monach, in consequence thereof, driven from his throne and dominions. At the revolution of 1688, in the Bill of Rights, "the undoubted right of the subjec: to petition" was, among other things, claimed, demanded, and insisted upon." This right has been of late again in vaded, the people oppressed with unprecedent. ed grievances and calamities, have been denied access to the sovereign, their petitions have been rejected by the House of Commons, and their grievances remain unheard and unredressed. The exploded doctrine of passive obedience has been revived in all its extravagance; and a new race of abhorrors have sprung up, who, like the abhorrors in the days of Charles the Second, by the foulest calumnies, by villifying and traducing the petitions of the people, are (in the emphatic language of the then House of Commons) "betraying the liberties of the subject, and contributing to the design of subverting the ancient legal constitution of the kingdom." That as the corrupt participators in public abuse, under the mask of loyalty, subverted the liberties of the kingdom, and involved James the Second in ruin, so the corrupt and unprincipled of the present day, under the same legal pretence, would involve the country and sovereign in similar difficulties, if suffered to persist. It therefore becomes the imperious duty of every real friend to the country to resist their mischievous designs, by recurring to the genuine principles of the constitution, and by using every legal means for obtaining a full, fair, and free, representation of the people in Parliament. 10. Resolved-That Inseparably attached to our glorious constitution, we admire, venerate, and will support and defend our king, our lords, and our commons, in their re spective and collective capacities, with all their just prerogatives, rights, and privileges; but we can never consent to grant separatively to king, lords, or commons, a power contrary to, and above, the laws of the land, which are and must continue to be the results of their collective wisdom and authority. 11. Resolved-That notwithstanding the rejection of our late petition, we still feel it our duty to give to the House of Commons every opportunty of hearing and redressing the grievances of the people, and that an humble address, petition, and remonstrance, be presented to that honorable House. 12. Resolved-That the said pe ition be fairly transcribed, and signed by the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, and ten Liverymen, and presented to the House of Commons by H. C. Combe, esq. one of their repre sentatives. 13. Resolved-That the thanks of the Common Hall be given to the Right Han Lord Erskine, Sir Samuel Romilly, knt. M.P. and Samuel Whitbread, esq. M.P. for their able, constitutional, and independent conduct on all occasions, particularly for the stand they have lately made in favor of the domi nion of the law, against arbitrary discretion and undefined privilege. 14. Resolved-That the thanks of this Hall be given to Hervey Christian Combe, esq. alderman, and one of the representatives of this city in Parliament, for his support, in the House of Commons, of the right of the livery to petition the House, and for his general conduct in the House. 15. Resolved-That the thanks of this Hall be given to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, for his readiness in calling this Hall, and for his independent and honorable conduct in discharging the duties of his office. 16. Resolved-That the thanks of this Hall be given to Matthew Wood, esq. one of the sheriffs of this city, for the independent manner in which he has always discharged the duties of his office. The The following resolutions, passed by the Ward of Farringdon Without, are inserted as a summary of the reasonings adopted in the popular questions, at issue between the country and the majority of the House of Commons. 1st. Resolved-That in the 29th chapter of Magna Charta it is declared, "that no freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseized of his freehold or liberties, or free customs, or to be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. 2d. Resolved-That the committal of Mr. John Gale Jones, and Sir Francis Burdett, to prison, during pleasure, by the order of the honorable the House of Commons, for supposed libels, appears to this Ward meeting an unreasonable and illegal assumption in their own cause, of the accumulated offices and power of accuser, juror, judge, and ex ecutioner. Sd. Resolved-That the late assumption of undefined privilege by the Honorable the House of Commons will, in effect, abolish that bulwark of our liberties, trial by jury, will supersede the Habeas Corpus act, will annul the Bill of Rights, and the wholesome provisions of Magna Charta. 4th. Resolved-That the exercise of illegal power naturally engenders violence, rict, commotion, and ultimately revolution; that the introduction of the standing army to enforce the arbitrary warrant of the speaker of the House of Commons, has already produced the most deplorable calamities; our sacred charters have been violated, the blood of peaceable passengers have been spilled, and our fellow-citizens have been murdered in our streets; and this ward meeting entertain a fervent hope, that any future attempts to introduce arbitrary power, to excite violence and riot, and to goad the people into resistance and commotion, may, by the steady, firm, and wise, conduct of our countrymen, be foiled. 5th. Resolved-That this ward meeting trembles for the consequences probable upon this conflict between the people and the privileges of the House of Commons; and they aver it to be their opinion, that this unnatu ral struggle is a certain evidence of the little influence the people possess in that honorable House. That they believe the representation of the people in Parliament is unequal, deficient, and now manifestly inadequate to the security of the subject; that it appears uncontradicted upon their journals, that seats in the honorable the House of Commons are notoriously sold and bartered; that a majority in that honorable House may be at all times, with perfect facility, procured and purchased, by any set of ministers, with the ready means of places, pensions, sinecures, patronage, and jobs; as only 154 powerful individuals, peers, and others, return 307 members for England and Wales; and the representation of Scotland and Ireland is equally corrupt: that by means of the majorities thus obtained, public defaulters have not only been exculpated, but suffered to enjoy the fruits of their nefarious conduct, and retain their seats in that honorable house. 6th. Resolved-That this ward meeting declares its entire approbation of the conduct, resolutions, and petition, of the livery of London, in their last Common Hall; that this meeting avails itself of this first opportunity to express its abhorrence of the seditious attempts of a band of contractors and venal jobbers, to decry all public spirit; and to induce the timid and the weak to join in libellous declarations against their fellow citizens, and the venerable magistracy of our city. 7th. Resolved-That for those accumulated evils and calamities, one only remedy offers itself; namely, a full, fair, and free, representation of the people in Parliament. 8th. Resolved-That this ward meeting do hereby instruct their representatives in Common Council to promote and support ia that court all legal measures whatever, that may be proposed to procure the liberation of Sir Francis Burdett and John Gale Jones; and for that necessary and indispensable object, a radical reform in the Commons House of Parliament. 9th. Resolved-That the thanks of this meeting are due to Sir Francis Burdett, for his manly and constitutional resistanc⚫ to oppression, and for his learned and legal argument in favor of the unalienable rights of the people. ALPHABETICAL LIST of BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced between the 20th of April and the 20th of May, extracted from the London Gazettes. Canalford William, George areet, Oxford ftreet, baker (Pownall Staples inn Chantier Thomas. Harford, Che@ter. banker. (Leigh and Mafon, New Bridge ftreet, and Banker, Northwich Child Francis, Merpeth, Northumberland, skinner. (Harvey, Newcattle-upon-Tyne, and Wortham, Caftle freet, Holborn Chinery John, Great Mary le bone ftreet, grocer. (Wet. (Higfon, Man chefter, and Elis. Chancery lane Collens William, Franthamo Surry. polterer. Edward treet, Cavendish fquare (Turner. Colwill Charles, Leicester fquale, cabinet maker. liams, Cursor Arcet (Wil Cooper Edmund. Hendon, Middlefex. carpenter. ten. Crufs ftreet, tatton Garden (Beckett, Cleinent's inn (War. Court Charles, Cambridge row, Hackney road, merchant. Dodd, Billiter lane Cox James and John Smith, Manchefter, auctioneers. (Willis, Fairthorne, and Clarke. Warnford court, and Hellop, Manchester Crankfhaw 1homas. late of Charlton freet, St. Mary-lebone, painter, but now a prifoner in Newgate. Morgan, Bedford row Bavenport James, Gracechurch freet. dealer. (Parton, (Fisher, Lyme, (Parnell and Ruf (Day and Ha Dennifon William, Winterbourne Steepleton, Dorfet. butcher. (Ruffell, Beaminster Devey Richard, Stourbridge, Worcester, upholsterer. (Brettell. Stourbridge Dornik William Everhard Marcus Von, Edmund Griffith and Jeremiah Donovan, Well Atreet, Weliclofe fquare, manufacturers of patent foap. (Seymour and Montriou, Margaret freet, Cavendish fquare Douglas William, Ware, Herts, cheeseironger.. Walbrook (Parton, Duckworth Thomas, Parbold, Lancafter, victualler. (Houghton, Ormskirk, and Windle, John Atreet, Bedford row Dye Ifaac, Gray's inn lane, victualler. binder lane (Hackett, Bear(Whit Dyfon Robert Greaves, Rofemary lane, victualler. tou, Great James treet, Bedford row Eccles Henry, Beverley, York, cornfactor. (Hall, Beverley Edwards Samuel, Mark lane, merchant. (Palmer, Tom. linf-ns and Themfon, Copthal court Fenwick George, Mary le-bone, veterinary furgeon. (Ward, Cook's court, Carey street Fewter James, Liverpool, Joiner. (Blackstock, London, and Murrow, Liverpool Foter William, Great Grimsby, Lincoln, merchant. (Brown and Marris, Barton-upon-Humber, and Grey, Gray's inn Square Gee William, Hampstead road, ftone mafon. and Wood, Cattle court, Budge row Goodall Thomas, Surry fquare. merchant. Tomlinions and howton, Copthall court (Warrand (Palmer, Gorfuch Thomas, Pete: Arcet, Cow Crof, cheesemonger. (Pullen, Fore freet Goudan Jufeph, South ftreet, Weft fquare, Lambeth, vic tualler. (Lucas, Webber ftreet, St. George's Fields Greaves Thomas, Hull, irenmonger. (Ellis, Chancery lane, and Anderfon, Hull Green Benjamin Aifkew, York, cattle jobber. Bedale, and Louing:on, and Hall, Temple (Janfon, 'Gribble Nelfon, Crefcent, St. George the Martyr, Surry, dealer. (Walker, Old Jewry Hallen William. Wolverhampton, woollen-yarn manufac. turer. (Jeffon, Wolverhampton Harriton Thomas, Camomile areet, ftationer. (Evitt and Rixon. Haydon fquare Hatheld Jofeph, Eccles, Lancafter, cotton manufacturer. (Barrett and Wilfon, Manchester, and Willis, Fair thorne and Clarke, Warnford court Hatley Thomas, Woodftock. Oxford, hatter. (Bleafdale, Alexander and Hulme, New Inn. and Meredith, Bir mingham Heydun John, York treet, Covent Garden, tailor. (Duncombes, Lyou's inn Hobfon Eazabeth, Beverley, York, dealer and chapman. (Campbell, Heverley Hunt Francis, Bristol, butcher. (Clarke and Son, Bristol, and James and Abbott, New Inn Hutchinfon John Lamb's Conduit Areet, tea dealer. (Keene, Furnival's inu Jackfon Ralph, Mill freet, Hanover fquare, china and glats felier. (Dixon, Allen, and Reft, Paternofter Tow Johnfon William, and Nevill Browne, Fish Areet hill, grocer. (Swain, Stevens and Maples, Old Jewry Kauffman Chriftian Henry, New London freet, Crutched Friars, merchant. (Oakley, Martin's lane, Cannon ftreet Kay Thomas, Birmingham, factor. (Webb and Tyndall, dale Alexander and Holme, New Ion, and Cricke Morris Richard, Lyng, Somerfet, dealer in catie. Nicholls James, Gray's inn, fcrivener? (Tyrrel and Oakley William, Church Greet, Horftry down, Surry, woolftapler. (Burrows and Vincent, Bafingħall street Oram John, High freet, Southwark. cheesemonger. (Willett and Annesley, Finsbury fquare Owen Daniel, Red Bank and Heley, Laucafter, chemi4, (Crump and Lodge, Liverpool and Battye, Chancery lane Parry Thomas Sefton, Charlotte freet, Portland place, money-fcrivener. (Dixon, Naflau Breet, Soho Pawlett Daniel, Nottingham, tallow chandler. Bromley and Bell, Holborn court, Gray's inn, and shelton, Nottingham Payne James, Weft fquare, Southwark, army-contractor. (Gregfop and Dixon. Angel court. Throgmar tus Brict Peacock George, Skinner freet, Bishopsgate. (Beaurain, Union rest, Bishopfgate Pollard John, Elland. York, woolftapler. (Hartle, Settie, York, and Swale and Heelis, Staple's ina Pook William, jun. Wick and Abfon, Glocetter, papermakers. (Stevens, Bristol, and ect and Stokes, Temple Po.ter William Jun. Nottingham, L Wells, Nottingham, and Taylor, Raitt James, Dartmouth fr stationers. (Goode, Howland Breet, Tottenham Court Road Reid Thomas Hayward Mark, Red Lion frest, Holbors, fhoemaker. (Druce, Billiter quare Reid John, Frith treet, Soho, grocer. (Highmore, Ely Place Remington John, St. Ives, Huntingdon, liquor merchant. (Alexander, New fquare, Lincoln's inn Roberts John. Welford, Glocefter, baker and miller. (Phillips, Evesham, Worcester. and Bou.field, Bouverie ftreet, London Roliafon William, Little Barnhurt, Statford, butcher. (Biddle, Wolverhampton, and Smart and Thomas, Staple's inn (Green and (Edge, Mag (Stevens, Rooke Thomas, Bengeo, Herts. farmer, Son. Ware, and Green, Clifford's ing Rushton John, Manchester, cotton-dealer. chefter. and Ellis, Chancery jane Sayer John, Sherfton, Wilts. inen-draper. Britol, and Sweet and Stokes, Temple Sherwood Mary, Knottingley, York. hardware-wOST 1 Sky and Paul Sherwood, hardwareman. (Wright and Pickering, Temple, and Bingley, Snaith, York Silverlock William, Newport, Ile of Wight, cabinetmaker. (Griffiths, Newport Simpton Richard, Great Bell Alley, merchant. (Antice and Cox, Temple Smith Richard, Liverpool, upholßerer. verpool (Plumbe, Li Steventon Thomas, Snow's Fields. Bermondsey. !Shepwood, Canterbury fquare, Southwark Storey Jofeph and Robert, St. Margaret a hill, South wark, linen-diapers. (Parton, Walbrook Stork John, jun. Hull, grocer. (Lemunds and Son. Lincoln's inn, and Haire, Hull Taylor |