Refolved, 4thly, That in all cafes where the duties on articles of the growth, product or manufacture of either country are different on the importation into the other, it would be expedient that they should be reduced in the king dom where they are the highest to the amount payable in the other; and that all fuch articles hould be exportable from the kingdom into which they shall be imported as free from duty as the fimilar commodities or home manufacture of the fame kingdom."

By this Great Britain abandons all jealoufies for her own manufactures, relinquishing thofe high duties by which fome manufactures of Ireland were prohibited, while her own manufactures coming here pay the fame duties as formerly.

The fifth refolution, viz.

Refolved, 5thly, That for the fame pur

relate to corn, meal, malt, flour and bifcuit, and fuch as are in the nature of drawbacks, or compenfation for duties paid; and that no bounty fhould be granted in this kingdom on the exportation of any article imported from the British plantations, or any manufacture made of fuch article, unless in cafes where a fimilar bounty is payable in Britain on exportation from thence, or where fuch bounty is merely in the nature of a drawback, or compenfation of, or for duties paid over and above any duties paid thereon in Britain."

This is a guard to you against forcing a fupe riority in any article, by bounty on exportation to your own market;-the exception of corn is advantageous for in fcarcity it enables Great Britain to fell cheaper, which will also have the effect of bringing down the price on the foreign importation. If a fcarcity thould happen in Great Britain, and a furplus is here, you can, by bounty, underfel the foreign, and encourage your own agriculture, which is now become fuch a capital object, that the exportation of oats only is a fource of very great wealth to Ireland.The extenfion of thofe provifions to the colonies is but juft. Great Britain has opened that trade to you, and only defires that you may not, by bounties, be enabled to fupplant her in the fale of her own plantation goods in foreign markets. But if Great Britain fhould give any bounty, it will be in your power to equalize the fame. The ninth refolution:

"Refoived, That it is expedient, for the general benefit of the British empire, that the importation of articles from foreign flates fhould be regulated from time to time in each kingdom, on fuch terms as may afford an effectual preference to the importation of fimilar articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the other." This confirms the preference to the produce or manufacture of Ireland over the like goods of foreign countries.--Thus the advantage to the Irifh linens over thofe of Ruffia and Germany is for ever confirmed, that the like good confequence will follow any other article fimilarly circumstanced.

Having thus briefly ftated fome effects of the propofitions fubmitted as a ground for amicable adjustment, and if Great Britain, as I trust the will, thall adopt them in cafe of your approba tion, you will certainly be convinced of her liberality and freedom from prejudice. She will, at once admit you to all the advantages which fhe has endeavoured to attain by labour and experience, and to every protection which her prefent power can afford. All grounds for contention will be removed; the world will be open for your induftry; you will have ample room for emulation, and may arrive at excellence without interrupting that harmony which I hope will be the firft confequence of this adjuttiment, and may last for ever.

Thus, Sir, Great Britain has generously facrificed her prejudices, has removed all the barriers which he had raised to protect her trade. -Her monopolies are at an end; no longer fecure of being the emporium of commerce, at a time when her burdens prefs heavy upon her, when the groans under the weight of a debt incarred by the general defence of the empire.

Thus circumftanced, I think I may rely upon the wisdom of this nation, that they will think the trade which is imparted to them an object worth their care; and upon their generofity, that they will contribute to the general defence of the empire. I hope they will meet Great Britain with a liberality of fpirit like her own-the ob ject is to strengthen the general union, and encreafe the fecurity of both nations.

It is natural to enquire by what means this can be effected: certainly, if in confequence of the adjustment now propofed a very great encreafe of revenue shall arife to Ireland, it will not be thought unreasonable to appropriate a part of that revenue to the protection of the trade which it arifes; and by our contributing to the fupport of the naval force of the empire, Bri-, tain will be ftill enabled to afford protection. I fhail therefore lay before you, Sir, a refolution which can only operate in proportion as our trade encreases.

The tenth refolution:

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Refolved, That for the better protection of trade, whatever fum the grofs hereditary revenue of this kingdom (after deducting all draw. backs, repayments, or bounties granted in the nature of drawbacks) fhall produce annually, over and above the fum of should be appropriated towards the lupport of the naval furce of the empire, in fuch manner as the parliament of this kingdom shall direct."

Mr. Brownlow, I contefs, Sir, I could hardly fupprefs my indignation whilft the right hon. gentleman was fpeaking:-I am teally attonched that any man should be bold enough to move fuch a propofition in this house, and I should door myfelt a slave if I could tamely hear it. made. Does the right hon. gentleman mean that we should become a tributary nation ?—Is this the boasted extention of our commerce ?-Is this the reciprocal advantage we were to enjoy?

Sir, I reject the gift, and I hurl it back with fcoru.I never will conient to be a flave, nor to pay tribute. I am ready to die, rather than be a flave. Such propofitions were formerly made to America, and we have feen their effect. Sir, it is well for the right hon. gentleman that he is in a civilized country: Had he made fuch a propofition in a Polith Diet he would not have lived to carry back an antwer. Is trade to be purchafed on fuch terms? Sir, I was born free; I will preferve my liberty, and I truft no Irith

man will ever reduce himself to the level of a flave, by paying tribute. I am willing to acknowledge the liberality of Great Britain, but never will content to fuch terms as thefe.

Mr. Secretary Orde. After what the right hon. gentleman has faid, knowing, as I do, that he must have milapprehended my words, I hope I shall not be deemed prefumptuous in rifing again, to exprefs my astonishment at his cailing the appropriation of part of the hereditary revenue to the common defence of the empire, under the controul of the Irish Parliament, paying tribute. Is it not just that we should contribute towards the expence of our protection? Is Yorkshire tributary becaufe that county pays fomething towards the general expences of the empire 2 Would it be proper Yorkshire should

complain

given the right hon. gentleman fo much umbrage, does not strike me in the fame light. When the parliament of Ireland granted three thousand men for the common defence of the empire, it might, upon the lame ground, have been called a tribute, but no man ever thought of giving it that

perion on earth that would fubmit to pay tribute, yet long before I had any reason to hope that fuch an extentive and liberal plan as that now offered would be conceded, I did think that as we received the protection of the navy of the empire, we ought, in reafon and juttice, to contribute fomewhat to its fupport; and had a defign to propole our arming and maintaining fome trigates for the protection of our trade.

coroplain and refuse money to the revenue, be cause a part of it may be spent in London? Good God, Sir, he might as well fay that we pay tribute in maintaining a part of the army. Nay, it is not the first time that the navy of the empire has been the object of your attention It is not the first time that Ireland has thought_name; and though, Sir, I would be the laft proper to affist Great Britain by ftrengthening her navy-And now, when the parliament of Ireland feels and acknowledges the liberality of Great Britain-now, when we are admitted into full participation of all the has to impart, and it is proposed that a very little aid shall be contributed to the common defence, and that under the controul of the Irish parliament-hail this be called a tribute ?-Or shall it be fuppofed that I fhould dare to rife up in this houle, and propound fuch a difgraceful measure, after 1 had a zealous anxiety for the welfare and happinets of this country; and that, while I had the honour to ftand in the ftation I now do, my moft earneft wish would be to promote its honour and advantage, and by cultivating the most perfect reciprocity with England, endeavour for ever to unite the two countries in affection as they are in intereft? I own, though I have an high refpect for the right hon. gentleman, that I cannot fupprefs my aftonishment at fuch a fuggestion.

Mr. Forbes. I am defirous only of time to confider the propofitions-I will receive them without prejudice, difregarding what fide of the house they come from. If the gentlemen on the other fide with for unanimity, it will best be obtained by giving every man an opportunity to examine inte a matter of fuch great magnitude. I therefore move that the chairman do now quit the chair, and defire leave to fit again.

Mr. Secretary Orde faid it was his wish that time for deliberation fhould be given; and the more fo, becaule he was convinced that the more they would be inveftigated the more they would be approved of.

Mr. Flood. I request gentlemen will not go into any difcuffion of thefe propofitions. It is not the bulinefs of the day, and there is no queftion before the committee.

Mr. Gardiner. The propofition which has

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I confefs, Sir, that I feel the utmost gratitude to the right hon. gentleman who has brought forward thete relolutions; to the gentlemen who have affitted him; and to the minifters on the other fide of the water, who act upon fuch jutt and liberal principles. I do think, Sir, that every one or thefe refolutions is replete with be nefits to this country. As to that in particular which regards the tree importation and exportation of plantation goods, I look upon it to be the completion of what was intended when we received a free trade, and to be the perfection of that fyftem.

Retpecting the duties between the two kingdoms, that the higher in each fhall be levelled down to the rate of the other, I am not fo fanguine as to think that any confiderable immediate advantage will arite from it-it will be many years before the Irish manufactures will find their way into the British market. The fuperior skill, the long experience, the great capital, and the extenfive trade of the Brit th manufacturers, must give them advantages which we will not very foon acquire.

The permanent establishment of the prefent duties on Ruffian and German linens will effectually and for ever fecure us from their rivalship in the British markets. But as we are to lay on no duties reciprocally, I fear that this for ever eradicates all thoughts of protecting duties.

POETRY.

Prologue to Fashionable Levities.
Written by Mr. Chalmers.

Spoken by Mr. Wroughton.

"N Shakspeare's days, we only played the fool,
And men of fashion gave-not took the rule.
Then lords were grave, and ladies graver ftill,
And only we, and clowns, had wit at will;
His mind rejected formal claffic lore,

And drew from Nature's never ending store;
But authors now-we often prove the fact,
Muft fashion court, to teach us how to act;
Expofe the follies which our ftatutes ipare,
And unprotected virtue make their care.
All nature now is CUSTOM; cuftem, Lazo;
And here we bring not what we think, but faw.
"Tis hard to vary your dramatic mirth,
When every folly gives its likeness birth,

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(To be continued.)

Will rather pall, than please, at second hand.
'Tis harder till to fuit the general mind,
And all our audience in our int'reft bind.
Honest John Bull, vex'd with the cares of life,
With heavy taxes, and a fcolding wife,
Wishes fome hours in hearing us to waste,
And Galloping dreary dun is quite his tafte;
Sir Fopling, too, his brains with claret addie,
Pronounces comedy to be a twaddle-
His lordship by the privilege of folly,
Is neither mulical or melancholy;
Thinks every honeft bard a queer old put,
"Damme! there's nothing in a play like fmut."
The politician's all commanding pate
Would have us dramatife th' affairs of Atate:

Make

Make Whigs and Tories fight here face to face.
And teach the Patriots, UNITY of PEACE.
Some cry for fentiment, and fome for wit,
And yet our claim to either won't admit.
Ye Critic Bench! * from which there's no ap-
peal,

Since for the town they judge, and act, and feel-
Did you but know what pangs an author fhares,
How throbs his heart with anxious doubts and
cares !

Let paft indulgence your attention keep;
Though we be duil- Justice should never fleep.
And if to-night, no merit we can claim,
"Tis want of power, not will, deserves the name.

Epilogue to the fame.

Written by Thomas Morris, Efq.

Spoken by Mifs Young.

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INCE firft that animal who upright walks,
That king of animals, who laughs and talks,
To Nature's inftitution counter ran,
And left his woods to act the gentleman;
His growing Levities too clearly show,
That all his troubles from refinement flow.
Two ages fince we valu'd plain attire,
Blue apron'd was the Dame, straight hair'd the
"'Squire;

They call'd not houfhold business vulgar cares,
Nor deem'd it ungenteel to say their pray'rs :
But arts improv'd, new Levities arofe,
And ladies chang'd the fashion of their cloaths;
Hoop'd petticoats in ev'ry town were feen:
The fnug rotunda pleas'd the virgin queen.
Yet beef for breakfast serv'd her lady-train;
No wonder that her failors baffled Spain.
Still we have chiefs with love of glory fir'd;
But fo had Rome, when Liberty expir'd:
Tho' Death's cold hand benumb each meaner
part,

The flame of life may quiver in the heart.
In feather'd bipeds no caprice we view :
Is man the only fool that walks on two?
The cock looks itern, and mimics not the hen;
Our men ape women, and our women men.
Befst was a man, when Tilbury beheld
The martial monarch mounted in the field;
The preffing danger call'd forth all her pow'rs:
She was a woman in her private hours.
Few Levities, few luxuries the knew;
No cherries then in February grew:
What! nineteen guineas for a pound of fruit?
It would have bought queen Bels a court-day.

fuit.

For grey-beards grow unconscionably nice,
Since Sutton's fkill has lower'd beauty's price.
Few parents teach their daughters grace or sense;
But tell them tafte in drefs is excellence :
Bid them the Levities of rank affume,
And flaunt with fpreading bow, or nodding
plume;

Strut in a riding-drefs, to fhew their shapes:
Or ftalk in boots, and coats with triple capes.
Mamma th' example fets, a finifh'd fool,
With face of plafter, and with hips of wool;
She flirts a muff with melting scenes portray'd,
The billing turtles, and the love-fick maid;
Affecting cafe, but imprudently free,
Link'd arm in arm, fhe woo's her cicifbee;
While care pofa keeps his tawdry wench,
Defies his duns, and revels in the Bench.
See the ftarv'd beau, the ragamuffin buok,
Punks dreft like Quakers, Quakers dreft like
Divines, who leer on beauty from the flews,
punks;
And with huge buckles mount their fancy fhoes,

See old Sir Chuff affect a boyish flame;
A man of gallantry, though blind and lame.
What Levities in each rich widow's brain!
What monstrous matches, when they wed again!
Thrown to the dogs, or hector'd by a devil.
Won by whate'er is low, abfurd, or evil;
Go, Beauty's flaves, the wilds of dalliance roam,
And leave deferving wives to mourn at home;
Fly, twift as eagles itooping on the wing,
And feize fome wanton, gaudy, giggling thing,
With not one talent, no one feeling bleit:
Abroad we love what we at home deteft.

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Why, this is vice, not folly ?" I agree:
But ftill this vice proceeds from Levity.
Some fouls there are which moral lente fublimes,
A few bleft fpirits, in the worft of times:
One have I noted of that happy few,
One, thoughtiels nation, much too good for you;
In whom high birth and piety are join'd;
Of native worth, and truly royal mind;
Who with benignant hand her bleflings pours
Who knows no Levities, but feels for yours.
Virtue, the only Blifs below.

O joys of fenfe like conscious goodness
pleafe,

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More bright than glory, and more soft than ease;
In profpect treacherous thote enchant the eye,
Yet when approach'd, illufive fieet and die,
Still others fpring, ftill please and cheat the
fame,

While hop'd for-mountains, when poffefs'd—

a name.

When from afar it breaks the feven-fold ray;
So charms a cloud with ev'ry colour gay,
But, if we reach it we difcern no more
The flattering colours fo admir'd before.
"Tis virtue reigning in the gen'rous heart,
Alone can true fubftantial blifs impart;
"Tis this ftrong-beaming, though our noon be
past,

Bias life's thort day, be fplendid to the laft;
Charts pain and fick nefs in the faint and fage,
And melts to joy the boar of frozen age;
In want, content (unenvy'd wealth) bestows,
In fickness patience, and in pomp repofe;
All wonders rife at her invoking breath,,
A life of rapture from the womb of death.

FOREIGN

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Conftantinople, March 19. Printing-office has at length been opened here, and employed on several works at the expence of government; one is the hiftory of the Ottoman empire.

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Versailles, March 28. Last night her Moft Chriftian Majefty was happily delivered of a Prince, who has been fince created Duc de Normandie.

Madrid, March 29. On Eafter Sunday the 27th inftant, the Portuguefe Ambaffador at this court made his public entry into Madrid, and in a formal audience of the King of Spain demanded the Infanta Donna Charlotta (eldeft daughter of the Prince of Asturias) in marriage for the Infant Don Juan of Portugal. In the evening the contract was read and figned in the prefence of the Royal Family, the grandees of Spain, and the great officers of State. After which the marriage ceremony was performed by the Patriarch of the Indies, his Catholic Majesty standing proxy for the Infant Don Juan.

Vienna, March 30. We have accounts from Brandiefs, that on the 8th of this month a most violent ftorm fell there of thunder, lightning, and rain, which, at this feafon of the year, and without any previous heat, greatly alarmed the inhabitants.

Utrecht, March 31. The greatest expedition is ufed at Cadiz in compleating the armament destined against Algiers. The auxiliary fhips of the Portuguese, Venetians, and the Maltefe, are every moment expected, as well as a fmall fquadron from Toulon. Thefe preparations are, however, well known to the Algerines, who are in confequence ufing their utmoft to render that fortrefs impregnable. All their batteries have been repaired, and furnished with cannon, and orders iffued to build feveral veffels like gunboats, to throw burning materials on board the enemies ships.

Eaft-India News.

Six midshipmen, who were taken by Mr. Suf frein in the captured fhips, and fent up to Tippoo, have renounced both their religion and country, and voluntarily turned Mahometans: they have married Mahometan women.

Weft-India News.

About the latter end of December, Morris Keating, a pirate and murderer, was executed at Cuckold's Point, near Port Royal in Jamaica, and afterwards his body was fufpended to a lofty gibbet in chains. He met his fate with uncommon refignation, penitence and fortitude; and told the furrounding multitude, after he was tied up, that he was not afraid of death, but wifhed it as a relief from all his forrows. He then turned to the executioner, and forbade him to take away the ladder, faying, that he would jump off himself when he was ready, which he accordingly did about two minutes afterwards. The night before his execution he moft folemnly declared, that the following outlines of the latter part of his life were ftrictly true: May, 1785.

"That he had been a volunteer in the King's army in America, and afterwards a Lieutenant in Arnold's regiment, when that officer joined the British; that he had been in nine actions, and employed by Gen Clinton in three different meffages to Lord Cornwallis, when befieged in York-town, Virginia; that on the conclufion of the peace, Gen. Arnold's regiment being difbanded, he was discharged at that time without half pay, or any other provifion. He then made a voyage to Santa Cruz, where he had brother who trufted him with a very confiderable venture for America, which was unfortunately loft with the veffel within fight of New London, where he arrived with nothing but the cloaths on his back. From New London he found means to get to Norfolk, in Virginia, where he became acquainted with Benjamin Johnson, Jofeph Twentyman, and one Hughes, with whom he had leveral meetings; at one of which it was propofed by Hughes to procure a paffage on board the fchooner Friendthip, then lying off Johnson's houfe, commanded by Wm. Lewis, and bound to St. Thomas's; to feize upon the said schooner when opportunity offered; to murder al! belonging to her without diftinction; and to fell the fhip and cargo at the first convenient port.

This bloody project, in the evening of the 9th day after their departure, they carried into execution. Keating, Twentyman, and Hughes, went up to Mr. Chadwick at the helm, and, prefenting a loaded piftol to his head, fwore it he spoke a word they would inftantly thoot him dead; they then bound and gagged him. Twentyman took the helm, and the others proceeded to fecure the men upon the watch, all of whom Hughes propole inftantly to throw over-board. This done, Johnfon and Hughes went into the cabin, and feizing the Captain firft, made him fecure, and then attacked Mr. Wilkinson, a paffenger, who gave them fome trouble, as he made refiftance, and could not eafily be overpowered; but at length, by ftabbing him in feveral parts of his body, and chopping off his fingers as he grafped the fhrouds, they at length Compleated their diabolical purpofe. Price, Ch. Brown, and a negro man and boy, who were asleep, they easily fubdued; and, after fwearing them on a book to be true, kept them alive to work the fhip. Chadwick refuted to join them, and him they threw overboard Twentyman affumed the command of the vefwithout refiftance. The coaft being now clear, fel, as the only man who could direct her courie; and after thirty days fail, coming in fight of Antigua, Hughes having rendered himself fufpeced, Twentyman ordered him to be thrown overboard, which was the more readily obeyed, as he had fome days before dispatched the negro

man in the fame way.

Wm.

Antigua being in fight, there was now but little time to deliberate, and it was, on confultation, their unanimous opinion to make for a French port rather than an English port, to dif pole of the hip and cargo. Port Louis was therefore made choice of for that purpose, and M m Guadalou