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der Suchet, and where, according to the 
terms, they were at liberty to enter im- 
mediately into active fervice. 
_ The decifive victories gained by the 
Army of Referve on the roth, over Ott, and 
on the 74th over Melas, reduce to compa- 
rative infignificance the previous details. 
We fhall fully deferibe thoie victories in 
our next, and. fhall hope to add, as their 
confequence, that they have brought about 
a wife and neceflary peace between France 
and Auftria ; and that they will be likely 
foon'to lead to another no lefs neceflary 
. between France and Great Britain. 
IRELAND. 
Lord Gaftlereagh moved the houfe the 
16th of. May, to refolve itfelf into a com- 
mittee upen the Reprefentation Bill. After 
a fhort converfation, in which Mr. G. Pon- 
fonby and others propofed to appoint 3 
cormmittee fo examine whether the return 
of the hearth-money tax and the window 
tax (the criterions by which the three 
towns, which are to return members, are 
to be feleéted) were correét,—the houfe 
divided: For going into a committee 
4273; againft it 66; majority 61. The 
houfe then refolved itfelf into a committee 
upon the Reprefentation Bill. Lord Caftle- 
reagh propofed it fo fill up the blanks with 
refpect to the bifhops, who-are to be re- 
turned in the following, manner to fit in 
‘the United Parliament: the firft feffion after 
‘the Union, the Frimate of Ireland, the 
Bifhop of Meath, the Bithop of Kildare, 
The Bifhop of Derry. In the fecond fel- 
fion, the Archbifhop of Dublin, the Bifhop 
of Raphoe, the Bifhop of Limerick, the Bi- 
fhopof Dromore; and foon till the fixth fef- 
fion, the Bithop of Offory, &c. This claufe 
was agfeed to. Another divifidn took 
place in the committee, on a claufe of the 
bill: ayes rog; noes 67. Lord Caftle- 
reaghthen proceeded to ftate the grounds on 
whith he fhou!d propofe to feleét the thirty- 
one towns, who are to elect members to 
ferve in the Imperial Parliament. The 
towns which he propofed to return mem- 
bers were— Waterford, Limerick, Belfaft, 
Drogheda, Newry, Kilkenny, Derry, Gal- 
way, Clonmell, Wexford, Youghal, Ban- 
don, Armagh, Dundalk, Kinfale,Lifpurn, 
Sligo, Carlow, Ennis, Dungarvon, Down- 
patrick, Coleraine, Mallow, Athlone, New 
Rofs, Tralee, Cafiel, Dungannon, Port- 
arling, »Ennifkillen, and Carrickfergus. 
The city of Dublin two members, Cork 
two, and the-Wniverfitv one. 
A debate on Lord /Caftlereagh’s motion 
took place in the Hovfe of Commons on 
the 23d of May, for bringing a Bill of 
Union between the two kingdoms, when 
the houfe divided, and the numbers an- 
State of Public Affairs. 
i July 1, 
peared to be ayes 160; noes 130; majos 
rity 30. * 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
On the 26th of June, James Hadfield, 
who fired a piftol at the king at Denry Lane 
paige was brought to trial for high trea- 
on, and acquitted on proof of his infanity. 
The Houle of Commons in a commit- 
tee on the Income Tax, on the 19th of May 
Mr. Rofe moved a refolution, empowering 
commiffioners to furcharge perfons whom 
they thall dete&t in fraud; to tax, accord- 
ing to their defcription of income, perfons 
who refide occafionally in this country; 
and to reftri€t to perions making 20001. 
per anjum the right of appeal to the com- 
mercial commiffioners, which feveral refo- 
lutions were, after a converfation between 
Meffrs. Tierney, Alderman Curtis, Baf- 
tard, M. A. Taylor, Jolliffe, and Sir W. 
Geary, agreed to. The houfe, ina com- 
mittee on the Income Bill, on the 20th of 
May, refolved, 1@. That it is the opinion 
of the committee, that the rules preferibed 
in the feveral aéts for granting duties on 
income, as far as relates to the mode of 
afcertaining income arifing from Jand oc- 
cupied by the owner, orbyatenant at rack. 
rent, fhall berepealed. 2. That inlieuthere- 
of, fuch income arifing from land occupied by 
the owner, or by atenant'atarack-yent, thal 
be taken in the proportion herein after {pe- 
cified to the aggregate amount of the fol- 
lowing articles, viz. rent for one year pay- 
able to the landlord; parochial and ether 
rates and afleflments charged en the faid 
lands, or upon the occupiers in refpe& of 
fuch lands, on the average of three years, 
ending on the2 5th day of March preceding, 
if payable by the occupier; the value of 
all tithes, when taken in kind, or the fum 
paid or payable for the fame, or agreed to 
be paid in fatisfa€tion for the fame, within 
or for the laft preceeding or current year, 
If fuch aggregate amount be under ool. 
a year, then the income fhall be taken at 
three-fifths of fuch amoyvnt; and if at 
300, or upwards, then at ‘three-fourths of 
fuch amount; and in cafe of lands occu- 
pied by the owner, the income afifing 
therefrom fhall bé taken at the aggre- 
gate amount of the rent at which- the 
fame are worth to be let by the year, 
according to the erdinary rent of lands of 
the like quality, and under the like cir- 
cumftances, in the fame neighbourhood, 
and two-third parts of what would becom+ 
puted to be the income of the tenant at 
rack-rent, as above mentioned. 3d. Re- 
folved, that it is expedient that the provi- 
fions of the faid atts, which exempt any 
perfon from the faid duties, who fhall be 
refident 
