Foreign Intelligence. - { LONDON, April 27. fIbUSE OF COMMONS. % WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16. y Concluded frpm ytfitrdny's Galette.) I Mr. Fol v 41 The fubjed. now proposed to the confit'.srarion of the Committee, is of such vast and fcrious importance, that I •think it unnecessary to apologize for follow ing the right hon. geutlema;!' through some of the v inous statements and calculations he !:as made,, and offering my reasons for dif fering rq'jfl effentinlly in opinion with him, not only with regard to the (late of the Fi nances of the country, but.affo with refpeft to the deductions which he has endeavouf ed to establish from the positions which he his- brought forward. The rosrd, fir, we have to travel,' is notbefet with flowers, but opens to our view a comfortMs and dreary " profpeft, and, while we ratltly continue to purfiii it, wc are deprived of every mean* to avo'id the impending precipices with which it is on every fide surrounded. I ititreat gentlemen to conf:der and compare the statements they have heard this day from" the right hon. gentleman, and those With which he has, on former occasions, but too fuccefsfully deluded them. But however fpecioiis and unfounded his financial calcu lations have formerly been, they are even exceeded in delufibn by his statements made this day, which I maintain are altogether unprecedented in the history of Finance.— The right hon. gentleman came forward in the month of December last, and having succeeded in obtaining a supply of 18 milli ons, he now 'repeats the experiment, and calls on us for the fame sum. 15flt how has he prefaced this sudden and extraordinary demand ? He has declared, that the talk of applying to the House, after so short an interval, and for so large a sum, is irksome and painful to him, and that he has been disappointed in his views. That he has disappointed us by this unexpefted applies- ; tion, I most readily admit ; but what parti-1 cular disappointments the right hon. gentle nan may have experienced, which compels him to have recourse to our liberality, after the recent and mpft convincing proof we have already given cf it, or which can juf tify his applying for this enormous sum, I em, fir, at a loss to conceive. Does he for get the language which he used in this House on the 7th of last December, and must he be reminded, that 18 millions then advanced were given not so much with an idea of prosecuting the war, as with an earn est hope of enabling him to forward tire great and desirable work of Peace ? Can it be necessary sot me to recall to him the public wishes at that period for a speedy termination of the war ; and that the Loan was accofriplifhed- on the general hope of a fuccefsful ifl'iie to lord Malmefoury's embas sy ? He told us then, that the advance of 18 millions ' was aVi ample supply, for such were h's words, for the exigencies of the State, and adequate to the pressure of eve ry circumstance. Yet no disappointment has iince happened to induce him so sud denly to repeat the experiment. I cannot for my part perceive any disappointment which can have compelled him to this un precedented application, except the state of Ireland alone, and the sum required for the embarrassments of that kingdom amounts to a million and a half. What other disap pointments the' sanguine expectations of the right hon. gentleman may have fuffered, he' hS* not condescended to inform ns. I clearly exposed the delusions with which he amused the House when he called on us to provide for the last Loan of 18 milltons, and the orent has fully verified what I then pre fled so earnestly on the attention of gen tlemen. With refpeft to the statements made in the report of the Seledt Commit tee, of the produce of the permanent taxes for the years 1793, 1794. and 1795, lam willing to give the right hon. gentleman every benefit he may wifli to derive from that report, however I may differ in opinion with the fubjett matter of the report, and objedt to the documents on which it is foujided-. In speaking of the produce of the taxes in 1796, as stated in the report of the Seledt Committee, on which he builds his calculations, (I stop here for a moment, andrequeft it may be remembered, that I do not agree to th<; extent of that part of the report, or to the use which he makes cf it), not knowing the amount of the Hat and Legacy Duty, I allow them to produce what he himfelf thinks fit to state ; but whea I come to the Wine duty, there fir, I beg leave to observe, that I differ both with the Committee and with the right hon. gentle man. The ftpek in hand cannot, in any refpe£t, be considered as air annual tax, and, indeed, the right hon. gentleman seems by the very arguments which he introduces in favour of that opinion to admit that it can not be viewed in that light. The fair way to estimate the produce of the wine duty is to calculate it for 1796 on the fame ground as if it was considered in 1795 ; and I will, fir, by a parity of reasoning, argue for the produce of * 797» by the experience we have had of the preceding year. Thus ' having given the right hon. gentleman full credit fcr the Hat and Legacy duty, and admitting that a duty of 2 1. per ton will produce in '96, what it produced in '95 . I' Hill maintain that that there remains a de ficiency of no lefsa sum than 357,00 c!. in the produce of the brought forward by the right hon. gentleman. I will not ar gue tint because he was mii.ut 357,'0c1. he should have immediately proceetded to pro vide for it; but I will contend, that for him to m'aTntairi that he had a furpjus when he was aitually minui 357,0001. is a delufi on-t'f too gross and palpable a nature to impose on the understanding. But if even the taxes- cf 1796 produced the sum it was intended thty should, there would Hill be a deficiency of 88,ootl. and that according 1 to the report of the Select Committee.— 1 Lit us then ccn&cfer that at the beginning ' of tne fciiijn we vfcrc ic*,l. iWt; that in Oitob'cr the "right lion, gentleman funds his Navy bills,Tuid immediately after, in December, makes his Loan, flioiild lie not thtn have said intereft of the taxes which have been proposed, it appeai-s that a sum of I,Bcx>,cod. in taxes would not be too much for the v irious calls of the prefer.t moment. The deficiency on my calculation amounts to 47c,"0c1. and not to 2ic,0001. as stated by the Vight hon. gentleman, and in the report of the Select Committee.— And here, {if, I tl'iuk it neceflary to de clare, that the report of that Comn>)iitee does nttt merit the eulogium which has been lavished on it. I believe it has originated from, and has bieji conducted with grtod in tentions, but that it is particularly. clear, that it is founded 011 convincing documents, and that it is -supported by evident and ac i curate calculations, I can by no means ad ! Hiit. For I beg lea« to aflf, what has been the line ofconduft pursued by the members of the Committee ! They sent to the pub lic offices for the calculations in the refpet tive departments ; and on these papers,.fo supplied through the very channel of Gov ernment, they proceeded to form a decisive opinion ; and here I must notice, that in de livering their decision to the"house, they have merely grounded their proceedings 011 the authorities furnifhed incontcftibly by go.'trn ment, and which alone we are thus called • ;pon to fan&ion. In dating the produce of the permanent taxe3, they have recourse to the stoppage of the distilleries, for the pur pose of accounting for the deficiency which took place in them, and proceeding on the fame system, they also allude to the boun ties granted to seamen in 1796, when it cannot be denied, that these bounties were hi reality issued not in one year, but within a year and a half. This conduct Was there : fore prejudicial to the produce of the perma nent taxes in 1795, an d to of other years. They fay, that the stoppage of the distilleries between June 1795, and Novem bers 796, must have materially affedted the I amount of that part of the produce which | arises from the duty on Britilh spirits. They do not venture to state the precise deficiency, 1 but on comparing the produce of the duties on Britilh spirits in 1796, with the average 1 produce of the fame duties in the three pre ! ceding years, the deficiency is said to be j 557,7931. They immediately after admit S that upon this computed account of the loss i upon the distilleries, an allowance (hoyld be ! made in Consideration of any increase of du ! ties upon beer which may have taken place ' within the fame period ; but what the a ■ mount of that allowance, may be, they do not attempt to point out.—Thus, fir, it is I evident that they estimate a deficiency in one instance with refpeft to the stoppage of the distilleries, on the system of a computed average, and rejedt any substitute for that deficiency in the instance of the duties on beer, which they clearly admit have increa sed, but which they, do not think proper to estimate by "comparing ft with the average produce of other years, as they have done in the cafe of distilleries. Let us for .a mo ment take the average produce, of the beer tax for the three preceding year?, 4nd we « shall find, that there arises a sum of 270,000!. in favor of last year, which has been entirely overlooked in the report of the committee. This sum, I therefore contend, ought to have been added to the produce of the per | irtiyient taxes. They have also, fir, stated their estimate of the nav.y service for the en suing year to amount to 12,935,0001. but the right honorable gentleman differs in this very material consideration from the com mittee, and fixes ft at 12,66i,0001. to which if we add, as we are jultified in doing, the floating arrears of 1,500,0001. the estimate will then appear to be 14,1 61 ,OQol. Thus the right hon. gentleman, instead of making his estimate, as he fays it is, lefsby 100,000 than that furnifhed by the committee, will in fa£t make it greatly exceed that which we find in the report. I wish to know, fir, on what principle he has calculated the probable increase of the navy debt for the ensuing year. 111 my opinion'the best, and certainly ,jhe most fatisfactory way would be, to cal culate it by the experience we have had of the expences incurred in that department of the public service during the last year. I must observe, that in every estimate tif this nature he has been always disappointed, and the cause is obvious : he has continually act ed on erroneous principles, and has therefore been continually mistaken. What is the line of conduit then which he should adopt ? Why, fir, instead of confining himfelf to narrow and circumscribed statements, instead of implicitly regulating his judgment by the standard of official accounts and trifling cal culations, he ought to take matters on a larger, and unquestionably a more secure ba fi 3, since it is established by the experrrt-ce of the past. Let us take a short view of the effeft of those estimates on which he prides himfelf. On the-7th of December, 1795, the right hon. gentleman stated, that the probable increase of the navy debt would be 2\ millions, and this he called a very ample estimate. Then it arose to 4 millions ; then to 7 millions ; and now, in the month of April, which seems to be a fixed term for bringing forward a second budget, he calls for 8 millions more. The right hon. gen tleman next tells us, that he lias all his do cuments from the refpettivc offices ; and this I believe to be true : but he ought to sup pose an increase not merely from official pa pers, but from the constant experience of facts. The expences of the navy are at this 'ixioincnt on A much larger scale than any time during the war. 190,000 men were voted for the service of last year j we have this year voted 12c,&00. Inftcud, therefore, of making the iiicrcafc less than it was, he should make it pioportionably greater, and it ought to be 6 or 700,0001. mare than what ft is now fixed at. With i"cfpe<St to the army extraoi dinariea, the right lion, gen tleman fays, they are included in the com mon estimate, but. will he not admit that many after payments have frequently taken place ?• Ar.d if so, is it not very likely that. fuclt lApe.xej .will be :acu>rra on future occafiona? I feel* my felt jußlfiud in decla ring from the various view j- which. I have taken cf important fubjccls, tint ilot wituftanduig'all the heavy burdens, £T.d all the dreadful taxes we are about to'impofe this day, we huve still one million more to provide for the exigencies of the public frr vice. On the fubjedt of affording pecuniary succours to the emperor, tfie right hon. gen tleman expresses his dtfire to have a certain sum reserved for that purppfe, and in that point I perfedly agree with him. Y«t} what is not a little extraordinary, he wishes to have 200,0001. voted as a loan to his im perial majesty immediately ; nay, fir, if I rightly underhand him, he wijhes to have the measure agreed to this very night. I hope the right hon.. gentleman will set me right, if I have misconceived his intentipn, . or if I mistake what I take to be a most alarming proceeding (Mr. Pitt here fignified his intention of moving the 200,0001. in tue course of the night). Then, fir, I main tain such a proceeding to be a diredl in fringement of the declaration made by the right honorable gentleman, that he wilhed to have the pecuniary succour intended for the emperor, reserved to a convenient op- I will not pretend to fay how far the credit of the country may be hurt by the measure, but let me alk, is there any mrvterialdifferencebet ween exporting 200,000 sterling, apd not receiving 200,0001. flerling which this country was to receive ? Did the right hon. gentleman speak of this ex traordinary manner of paying the interest of the loan, when he a(ked us to be security for the house of Austria, and when he extolled the good faith of the bank of Vienna ? But having in compliance with his arguments and entreaties guaranteed flie loan, he now with lingular feeling laments, it is extremely hard to think that the einperor could pay I the interest, as he fays, to a day.—To a ! day, fir ?—With more propriety may the | right hon. gentleman fay, it is hard to fup i pose that the emperor can discharge it to a | year, or to a far more distant time. But when will it be paid ? The loan was made to him in critical circumstances, and yet he is not to pay the interest, because he is now in critical cijrcumftances. There has not been hitherto one shilling of the interest dis charged and I fearthis country willevcrhave 'cause to repent lending money to the emperor. The right hon. gentleman must be aware thatif the in tcreft remains unpaid, he mufteome to the Hoirfe'V.nd provide taxes for the sum guar anteed by us to his Imperial Majesty, and thus add, by more permanent taxes, to the - burdens already too heavy to be borne.— j With refpedl to the specious argument which is held out that the restoration of peace will, by restoring commerce to its full extent, alio make the produce the taxes more considerable ; I on the contrary maintain that peace is much more likely to diminilh than encreafe the amount of our taxes. For when we look over our taxes, we find upwards of of one million arising en tirely from articles which could not be tax ed m peace. I cannot agree that the state of our manufaftures is more flourifhing than ; it was last year, for the assertion is positively contradifted by the manufacturers. When I the Right Hon. Gentleman last year propo- I fed to lay a tax on landed and personal pro j pertyy- he ilated the landed rent to amount |to 25 millions sterling. I am, however, one \ of those who think he undervalued it, but ; taking it at his own estimate, I feel myfelf ' juftified in faying, that when we have passed ; the taxes now proposed, and when, after the winding up of the war, we come, to a state of peace, we shall have a revenue equal to our whole landed annual produft. We are now Sir, at the end of April, and 18 millions are yet to be found. Three pay ments have only been made on the Loyalty Loan, and there are still seven tenths of it to be made good, whichamount to 12,600,00 - We are to rote 18 millions to day ; so that between this day and the Ift of January next, we have yet to find for the public ex igencies, the enormous sum of 30,600,0001. We have to furnifh in so short a space of time as 35 weeks, 30,600,000. or, in other words, almost one million per week, till the end of the year. But, Sir, there is still a npther point of view in which I vviih to place this most serious and alarming consider ation. In 1796, the new taxes only pro dnced 3 millions. What then, Sir, is the burden which the fubjeft has hitherto fc!t ? The weight of that sum alone. But the tax es to be imposed this day, with all the o thers, will mak« 7 millions and a half. So that we have actually felt only 3 millions ; and, to ul" a favorite expression of Ministers we have been as yet only scratched by the war, for the people have not experienced half the weight of the burthens imposed u pon them, and which they must fuffer when "they come to pay 7 millions and a half in stead of three. That it is right and necessary to look these dangers in the face, the right honorable gentleman himfelf admits, though he is by no means ready to pftnftife the the ory which he proclaims. There still re mains another article with respect to future expenditure, to which I wish to direct the attention of gentlemen. I mean, JSir, the. Bills to be drawn this year, in St. Domingo, on this country, probably to the amount of 900,0061. The bills drawn in" January a mountcd to 700,0001. Whether-they have been paid I cannot undertake to fay ; but if half remains unpaid, and an additional sum of 900,0001. is drawn for, I conceive it ve ry difficult to find how the whole is to be discharged. I do nof blame the Select Committee for'proceeding .to their report on the calculations laid before them, but I blame both the Committee and the House Jfor not grounding.their opinion on others that con vey morj; fol'd information f I mean those which are furniihed by experience. I«n fully fenfibleof the inestimable value bfpeace to the country, aud it will, by a geometri cal progreflion, become more valuable every y:ar. I know no system to obtain the bles sings which it diffufts, and'feeure»s but qn unequivocal snd Steady putftlit in the attain'' meet <>fit, It is not, Sir, in any opinion, j likely to tartftoied t(i us by fending Mr. Hammond, or any other man in the hour of impending danger and neeeflity to Vien na,' but iri openly declaring and vigorpufly ; adhering to equitable terms. But foHiethiug- more is requisite to be done. The HoUse must prove thsmfel'ves the -Rc prefentatives of tHe people., Tlily >nulb (hew the people that tlieydo.net blindly fidein a ininKler by whom they have been j so often and so (llarnet ully -deemed j and if there is not pat 1 iotifm enoDgh left to force j the\n to aflf thus, there is I do not hesitate to assert, an cud of the Coqftitutjou. Prom j the raeafurcs pu.'f'icd, andthe system avow-, ell by Miaillit-s.of persevering in them, the eountry is every .day involved in additionsl perplexities and eiTib'arrdfsments. It is in. y*iu we Jc.ok round fv)' •>'» and cheering profpeft, for amid and confu fioti wc llriyc.to no purjjofe to rescue our selves from diitrefs.— " While Alps (>tt A'j>* arifc. % * With'refpe£l to the vote for the Army Extraordinaries, does any man think that the arrears of the army will Be extinguished by that measure ? No Sir ! lam of an opi nion direftly contrary. The exertion of the public spirit. is ia this momentous crisis absolutely necessary. The people ought to know that we fhouldhave a complete change of fyftem —a change from a blind confidence in Ministers to a watchfulnefs and jealousy of their conduft. I believe, Sir, I havn nothing farther to remark than that if the Right Hon. Gentleman means to take the sense of the hhufe on the measure o£ lending 2c0,0001, to the Emperor, I (liall molt cer tainly oppose it. The Loaned/or of the Exchequer in reply to the queltion put by Mr. Fox, said it was his in tention to propole a resolution, granting a tem porary loan to the Emperor of looyooo. Mr. Grey combated several of the arguments adduced by the Chancellor of the F.ichequer ; he charged him with|being guilty of m'fiiemea nor in diverting a parliamentary grant of last session, to purposes different from that for which it was voted ; ami ilated, that a sum amount ing to 1,054.0001. to be returned to the "bgnk'js had been appropriated to other purpefes. The Chancellor of the Exchequer defended his condudt, and ihewed that the surplus dated by the Ho,n. gentleman, had been brought to account, and appropriated in the grants of the present session. Mr. Steele defended the Chancellor of the Exchequer (relative to the appropriations of the grant of 5,500,0001. of last year) from the charges of Mr. Grey, whom he accused of pres sing eagerly forward to notice on a point on which he was not properly informed, and quo ted* ths ait of parliament, in corroboration of his assertion, that 1,054,0001. alluded to by-Mr. Grey, was not included in that grant. Mr. Grey, Mr. Fax, and Mr. Pitt, replied to each other on this fubjeil. Mr. Sheridan charged Mr. Pitt with misrep resenting. his hon. friend (Mr. Grey)- after which he Ilated his ofcjedtion to the proposed taxes in general, none of which, he said, ex cepting that of plate, met with his approba tion. He particularly objedled to'he tax pro posed on the carriage of goods, and liid, that with regard to the additional tax en newspa pers, it was opprefiive in the extreme. The right hon. gentleman if he pleased, in dulge himfelf in a play of words, and stile it a tax upon luxury ; but he would tell him it was a tax upo» literature ; it was Unking at a source of political it was a violent attack upon the liberty of the press, and was calcula ted to impede the general circulation of parlia mentary proceedings. He view«d this proposed tax as bf fooppreffive a nature, that he believ ed noae bnt the right hon. gentleman would have ventured to bring it forward, and on eve ry account he wis determined! to give it his. firm oppofi.ion. The resolution was then put by the chairman and agreed to, but for the resolution far an en creafedduty on newspapers, a division ensued, Ayes 151 Nays 43 Majority 1;$ strangers were not re-admitted after tjie divi fior. j but we understand, that after the house was returned, the rtfclutions were rejorted by the chairman, and bills ordered to be brought in accordingly ; after which, the house refslved itfelf into a ceramiltee of supply, when, upon a motion.of the .chancellor of the exchequer to make a temporary advancement by way of loan of aoo,ocol. to the Emperor, a division ensued. Ayes 149 Nays 45 . Majority 94 Adjsurnedat II o'clock. LONDON, april 27. . Mr. Pitt's Budget of the new Taxes to pay the interest of the last Loan, as wel 1 as former deficiencies, is now before the public, and we feel no. difficulty in observ ing, that if no other Ways and Means can be devised for paying it, there Will be a most miserable deficiency indeed of the public revenue. A new tax of three-halfpe nee on every Newspaper ! and an additional duty on ad vertisements, the indefinite extent of which we know only by the right hon. gentleman's own words, to " amount in fami injlanccs to pounds." We are loft in aftonifnment, at who could be th'e advisers of such an'enor mous and' impolitic tax, which mull dtSCat the very purpose for which it was intended. We cannot suppose that it is the wifli of the Minister ro- ruin the property of those who hav* raised a suppOrt for themselves and their families at considerable expence, and still Tore considerable labour and rilk ; such an intention, we are sure, >s beneath hiscon fideratlon ; and yet "we are at a loss to con ceive, what dclu/ion could have prontpted him to such a measure. We know very Well that his enemies will fay of him, that this tax is intehded as an attack 6n the Liberty of the Press, and to confine the circulation of knowledge ; there certainly is ground for suspicion on this head, for the tax is a complete prohibition o£ the sale of News paper:;. If the hon. gentle<nan had con sulted the books of the Stamp Office, —he would have found, that the too .heavy duties he ha's ulready imposed on Newspapers, have not truth tended'to increase the Revenue ; and if it.ha 3 done so in a trifling degree, it is not an object of -coiifideration, when we consider the momentous events that have been passing, to excite the ctrriofity of the ffe**!?. Vrwrn these ce?.Cf, which we hope vvsl! soon be tlie cafe,. Mi. Pitt will fn.d that his whole tax on Ne vvfpspcrs w ill.be very tri fling indeed. ' 1 -•» It cannot be unknown (othofe whom Mr. Pitt ought to have confultcd on this fubjett that half the Newfj>apers in the kingdom have for fcttie time pad been carried On with .lcarcely any profit, and many at a loss, in hopes tff.a favorable change in the times—, what then rtluft be their situation, when they crtre raifcd to a price whjtjh must inevitably (',iiißi.niflj their sale, as vcejlas the number of their advertisements ; for the enormous ad dition propofcd to the already wry heavy duty, ou by falling princi pally on the regular Advertisers, such as JJoofcfellers, Auctioneers, and Venders of Medicinev vrill so reduce the number of ad veitifers, ,as to prove a death blow to at least i half the newspapers now printed ; and by preventing theadvertifmg of medicines, See. be equally iajwrioui to the revetuie, as it is deftru£tive to the property of Newspapers, and all property', the sale gf which was ef-» fecicd through the medium -of. the Public prints. - Wehavejuft thrown out these e-'fervatioj-s to df» v Mr. Ptti's attention moitminutely to the fubjeft. We ?.re fu're this plan will never nnfwer the purposes of the levenue nor wi'l it be pofliblr, with this new heavy imposi tion of duty, that either the . Printer or the Newsman can afFotd»'o fell hi» Paper without also adJing fomb profit to the little he already ga'ns- (Timet.) CONGRESS. HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES, Tpefday, fuso -Q. (Concluded from yeflerday's Gazelle.) Mr. SirjiKiriCK thought that by raising | theje men, they would increase the danger which i ! they not/bed to avoid. 'They appreljended air, attack from a foreign nation, and to guard J againjl any pofjiblt injury they wert to go to ' expence, and by that means increase our nation al debt, from -which he thought we had the greatejl danger to fe&r, since they saw the difficulty attending the raijing of any additional Revenue. He called the attention of the house to a Jituqiion of things not much unlike cur own. The French nation had many regiments on their fed coajl, and had been long making preparations, as if with a view of invading Great-Britain. In corfequence, the Britijh have expended large funis in fortifying and putting the island in a good Jlate of defence ; and, though, perhaps the French never serious ly intended to invade that country, yet the ap pearance of it had probably occafwned greater embarrassment, from causing these great ex pences, and the consequent derangement of the country, that if an invasion had really taken place. • Mr. S. reprobated the idea of defending the country againjl an invasion by two regiments of artillery. The militia, he said, would be the proper defence in such a cafe ; but he trufled the commijftoners appointed for the puYpofe would speedily fettle all differences betwixt the two countries. Mr. S. fpoie cf a veryfrious flatemcnt which they had received the other day from the secretary of the treasury, which did not stem to call for additional expence, but for addition al revenue. It appeared by that document that there was due from the government to the bank cf the United States, 4,750,000 dollars. Tet they were told these expences mufl be gone into and money borrowed whatever the interefl might be. In common life, he believed, if a man was prcjfed for money, it was accounted a prudent thing for a man to retrench his cii* pcnccs. He supposed the fame rule ought to held good in refpeS to government. But it was said, if theft men were not reiif ed, privateers would come into cur ports, and insult our citizens. Had there been any thing during the present European •tear, which could juflify such an apprehenfic K ? He thought not.' He did not know a Jingle injlance of infill, I except that of the Britijh ambajfador at R,hode IJland, because some officers were not released. sis to any invasion taking place, he had no idea of it ; but if it wire to happen, militia would bt the bejl defence and no expence would be in curred, except there was a necejjity ; but if ar tillerijls were raised the expence would be cer tain. Mr. Hartley was r.gaitifl J!riling out the firjl feßion ; for, though he did not think 950 additional artillery were necejfary, he thought there was a necessity, for some, and also for an increase of the infantry. He thought 4000 men necejfary for a peace eflablijhment, as it would be very inconvenient to march militia from one end of the Union to the ether. He did not wijh to go into excefsj but be wijhed the force to be efficient. He knew /here mujl he an' increase of taxis ; he was for a land tax, and wifhedto go immediately into it. Mr.. BkooKF.s said, if he believed there was no danger, heJhoufd agree with gentlemen that there wou'd be no occajion for these men ; but thinking our situation in no degree improv ed by the fate events in Europe, he Jhoufd vote for raijing the p'ropofed regiment, 7he oljit tion ,of expence would go againjl tv.ry mea sure. As there was no cert.iinty of otir am- I baffadors being able 'to fettle our difyute with France, they ought, he said, like wife mm, to forefee, and prevent'l he evil". He w, s afraid gentlemen were got into a . profound fitep, and would nit wake till it was ton late. Mr. S. Smith said that tht report from the secretary of war had confirmed his opinion .with rejpebl to fhis ntecfare, The .gcnjleman from S. Carolina, hud fpakeii of a numl/sr of forts which had been, thought- of in 1794, ut which had f nce been given tip. With refpeS 13 non-commjjioticd officers which that gentle man seemed fa think Jtiould be dedu&ed from the number of men, they were the life of the artillery service, and the musicians tvere si w. To jhew that t&? present number as men would be fufjicient, he slated the following as bein•* a proper number for ecch place, viz.. Wejl Point Co, New-Tcrk 60, Mud-IJland 60, Baltimore 50, Norfolk-so, Wilmington JN C. 30, Charljlon 60, Savannah 30, New par: Co, Portland 30, Portsmouth 30, Point Petre (Georgia) 30, W.Jlern Pep 412 — Total 992.
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