oh 
dition to the national debt was only feven 
millions, 
The interet of the fum is 5773000 
-'To which. muft be added, intereft 
upon unfuaded debt i 186,000 
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Making together the fam of 763,000 
To be provided for by permanent taxes. 
This fum the miniiter propoied to = 
raifed in the following manner: 
Five fhillings, additional « duty, per 
bufhel, om falt - 502,000 
Five per cent. on tea above 2s, 6d. 
per lb. - - III,CCO 
- Armorial bearings - 150,000 
= EN ee ee 
763,000, 
bak Attorney General, on the 11tl of 
May, brought up his bill to regulate the 
publication of newipapers, which obliges 
every proprietor,editor, conductor,printer, 
publither, and manual printer of a newt- 
paper, to give in, upon oath, the place 
where the paper is printed, with ee re- 
{pe&tive names and places of abode j and 
renders ena affidavits matter of evidence 
when produced in a court of law. 
. The how thea went into a committee 
of ways andmeans. Mr. Rose obterved, 
that a duty on ex — ts and imports was 
partly the objest of the further regulations 
relative to the failing of convoys. He 
didnot mean to fay that thatmeafure was _ 
equivalent to this ; but he could not help 
thinking, that as far as trade was protect- 
ed, it ead be proper to impofe fome duty. 
Tt was at firft intended, he faid, te impofe 
aduty of 23d, per cent. on exports gene- 
rally, exceptin a few cafes; -but ona re- 
prefentation from the merchants, he fhould 
propote a duty on exports to any pert of 
Burope, of one half per cent. only; t 
America and the Weft indies; aun e 
there was nto competition with foreigners, 
aduty of 2 per cent. ‘he. exports to 
Tieland tsi continue free as ey A now 
are; and no duty was intended to be im- 
ofed on Eaft India exports, becaufe it 
eld fall on the company, who generally 
undertook to protect hee own trade. 
According to his eftimation, a dut ty of 
ene half per cent. on exports to any y port 
of Europe would produce a revenue of 
233,000]. With vefpect to imports, it 
was intended to impele on them a duty of 
three per cent. This duty would only 
attach to fuch artitles from the Eaft In- 
dies ‘as fell into a competition with our 
own markets, cr our imports, frona any 
other. “part of the world. Such as muflin, 
which was brought to confiderable per- 
fection at home. The duty on imports ‘he 
eftzmated at 361,000. “Phe whole of 
thefe duties, joined to foine attiee regu- 
State of Public Affairs. 
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lations, he faid, would produce about the 
fum of 1,170,00 1. He next propofed a 
duty on tonnage, at the rate of 6d. per 
tonto Ireland; 1s. 6d. to Ruffia and the 
Baltic; 4s. tothe Eaft Indies; 6d. ta 
Newfoundland, and 10d.. to America, 
From hence a further fam of 2¢8,000l. 
would be obtained. The tetal amount 
of thefe fums .would be 1,378,0001.5 
they had been eftimated by Mr..P1TT at 
TE5O05 ooal. bi ut refpect ior Our Own ma-. 
nufaciures had induced him to lower the 
term. 
The feveral refolutions. were agreed to. 
The French have lately been repulfed 
in an attack upen the fmall dfles of St. 
Marcou, fituate on their own coatft, which 
have been for fome time made ufe of by 
the a 2s a polt of ebfervation, 
Upon the 7th of May, about fifty boats 
from La Hogue, about day break im thé 
morninc, formed. a tai a-breaft, of the 
weitern me oubt, where Lieutenant PRICE 
commanded. Having all his guns, which 
he could bring to bear, well pointed, he 
began a tea aly. and well directed fire upon 
them, until the flat boats came within 
mufket fhot, when he obferved fix or feven 
et them go faves whilft the others teok 
out, the living part of, the crews-+ He 
towed cne into the ilands, the others, 
coniiting of 43, returned inte La Hogue. 
Tt appeared, from the crowded itate of 
their decks, that they muft have received 
great damage aud laughter 5‘ 
A French fhip of 74. guns and 7co 
men, called Hercule, was. taken near 
Brett harbour, by the Britith fhip Mars, 
commanded bg Captain Hoop, on the 
2ift of April. ‘The a&ion was bravely. 
fought on both fides; the captain, of the 
Mars received a mortal wound near the 
clofe of the battle, and expyed ju as the 
enemy’s fhip had ftruck her colours. "The 
carnage-cn board.the Fenech was very 
great, and the Mars loit about forty of 
her crew. 
A fecret, and, we are concerned toadd, 
mof unfortunate expedition, failed from 
Ma: igats roads about the 18th of May, 
It confiited of feveral armed thips, with 
between two and three thouland troops on 
board, under the command of General 
Coorg. ‘The place of attack was kept 
an entire fecret till the fecond day after . 
their f failing, when they caine within gun 
fhot of the harbour of Oftend; the thips 
and boats cf the enemy were attacked 
Bite the greateft bravery, and about half 
the troops were landed ; and, according 
to the Gazettee *, did confiderable da-_ 

* Probably it wasa geographical error in 
