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the vessels went to fish for the bounty, and not herrings, and that it totally deftroyed the fishing carried on by the poor but active and laborious race of-fishermen, difperfed over the coafts of England and Scotland; thofe men, who by their labour procured a wholesome and cheap food for the poor, and by their strength, in times of danger protected the State. They could not compare them with the Ruth fishermen, who, without the bounty, underfold them in the markets. The English Parliament faw the force of the reafoning, and adopted a new fyftem of giving bounty, partly on actual production; the fum was proportioned to the labour. By 26th Geo. III. a bounty was given of 20s. a ton, and 4s. a barrel for all herrings twice packed, provided they do not exceed two barrels and a half for each ton, and a further bounty of rs. a barrel for every barrel caught by boats. This fyftem has fucceeded, to the fatal deftruction of our fishery, as you will fee by the returns which I fhall now ftate, and which is the best reason I can adduce for adopting the plan of the British bounties. You will thereby give employment to an active, induftrious, and laborious race of men, and encourage the production of a wholesome and cheap article of food for your poorindeed the only relish which the Irish peasant ever tastes with his potatoes. You imported Exported British. Foreign. Irish. Barr. 1,816 1,801

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35,414 9,980 1794 29,566 23,695- 1,390 Thus you obferve in 1782 we exported 26,000 barrels above our confumption; and 1794, we imported 53,000 barrels for our internal ufe, which makes an abfolute difference of 79,000 barrels in the state of our fishery. But that we may know with more precision the ftate of the fishery, we fee by the return from the office, that in the year 1786, when the prefent fishery law was enacted, there were caught and entered, viz.

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The quantity of herrings caught appear fo trifling, that it is a waste of public money to beftow 5000l. a year on bounties for the encouragement of the 'fisheries; it appears that it cofts the nation 48. d. for every barrel that is caught. There is another circumftance which I must mention, a remnant of the old colonial government, and which must be altered; I mean the bounty of 2s. 8d. given in England on the export of herrings to this country, and which is met here by only a duty of Is. Id. You will not permit your own fishermen, the poorest and most induftrious clafs of your community, to be borne down by foreign countries. It is evident they cannot fell the produce of their labour, if the English fisherman has an advantage of is. 7d. in their own market. I approve of the reduction of the duty on Swedish herrings; we must be fatisfied with the home market for our herrings, and that share of the foreign which the export bounty will procure them-but our foreign trade requires Swedish herrings; we cannot otherwise affort our cargoes for the Weft Indies, in which herrings conftitute a material part; we may lofe that trade fo advantageous and profitable, by obftructing the proper affortments for that market-even though our herrings were moderate in price, as I understand they are late in the feafon. From what I have stated, you maft perceive the progreffive decline of your fisheries, and agree with me in the urgent neçeffity of altering the mode of your bounties. I move" that it be an inftruction to the Committee on the Fishery Bill to receive a claufe to allow a bounty of is. a barrel of herrings caught and cured by veffels under 20 tons."

The Bill was gone through, and ordered to be engroffed.-Adjourned.

MONTHLY REGISTER.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.. Dufermont reporter of the commiffion of Finances propofed to print an VOL. LVIII.

account of the national domains unalienated, as tranfmitted by the directory.Agreed to. This account proves that we have national domains to the value of eight thousand four hundred millions, QA

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whilft the affignats, according to their could have been informed of its real juft value, do not exceed three thousand three hundred millions.

The following is the exordium of the proclamation of the Executive Directory relative to the Mandats.

Frenchmen,

"Your Legiflators have juft created a new species of money, founded at once upon the juftice and neceffity of providing for the immenfe wants of the ftate; they have conciliated the intereft of the Republic with the intereft of individuals, or rather it is in this private intereft even that they have found new and abundant refources for the Government: and such will be always the calculations of a true and only policy. In fhort, after fo terrible a war, after fo many violent fhocks, the nation is, all at once, lifted by the creation of territorial Mandats, to the fame ftate of fortune and of means, which fhe poffeffed in the first period of the Revolution. To render thefe means fruitful, to recover the fame degree of opulence and fplendour, we must only have the fame latitude of confidence in the Representatives of the nation-the fame obedience to the Laws the fame fraternal union between Citizens.

Your fate, oh Frenchmen! is then entirely in your hands; let the law relative to territorial mandats be faithfully obferved, and France will come out from the Revolution happy and triumphant; if the law be defpifed, a profound abyfs will be immediately dug under all our feet. The territorial mandats have a precious advantage which the affignats had not it was the want of it that occafioned their depreciation. This advantage is, the faculty attached to the mandat of being realifed in a moment, without hindrance, obftacle, or fale, by the immediate and inconteftible transfer of the national domain, upon which the bearer of the mandats may have fixed his choice in the whole extent of the re. public. It is a territorial bank, with funds well ascertained, whose notes may be exchanged in open market, and whofe guarantee is fortified by the authority of law, which gives them the forced currency of money. It was neceffary thus to prevent the criminal efforts of ftock jobbing and dif:ffection, which inceftantly endeavouring to convert the most wholefome remedies into poison, would have depreciated and monopolized the new money before the mafs of citizens

value."

Charette, the celebrated chief of the royalifts, on the fouth of the Loire, has been at last taken, after the dispersion of his party, and almoft incredible perfonal hardships fuffered by himself. He was feized whilft making his escape a-. lone, and on foot, across the country; being pursued by a republican patrol, he at laft fell through weakness. Two grenadiers took him on their fhoulders to the next poft. The following letter from Adjutant General Travot to Ge neral Hoche, commander in chief of the army on the coat of the ocean, will fhew the previous fteps which led to his capture, and the diftreffes experienced by that unfortunate man: "Pont de Vie, 18 Ventofe, March 8. Having received no certain intelligence of the force and pofition of Charette, fince his last movement, 1, in the mean time, determined to march on the 15th, in the hope of procuring fuch traces of his retreat as would enable me to regulate my future progress. I had with me only a few cavalry, and fifty mountain chaffeurs. Having arrived near the Chateau Groffetierre, in the parish of Froide-fonds, I met from between fifteen to twenty brigands on foot, who, as foon as they perceived me, without firing a fingle fhot, took to flight, and endeavoured to escape by the wood. After having taken the neceffary steps to cut off their flight, I ordered the infantry to search the wood in different directions. Four of them were killed, and the reft dif perfed. Next day, one league further, I took two more; I was then informed that Charette was one of the party, and that he had escaped from the wood with his confidential fervant, and only one of his followers. This circumstance the more furprised me, as, under all his reverses, I never fuppofed that he had been compelled to walk on foot.-P. S. Charette, after having escaped from two of our patroles, who had learnt the place of his retreat, fuppofing himself to be fold by the Curate of La Rabuteliere dispatched him with his own hand! The fervant, and a workman belonging to the unfortunate, fhared the fame fate. Thefe wretched victims, however, were perfectly innocent. S. Pol, a chief of the brigands, has delivered himself up. He is given in cuftody to the constituted authorities at Fontenay.'

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The refignation, or the difmiffion of the Genoefe fortrefs Della Penna, of the General Pichegru has taken place. It fortrefs of Savona, and of a great part has been reported with confidence, that of the river. They have alfo demanded this celebrated commander was for put permiffion to put a garrifon in the Geting an end to the war, and making noefe fort of Novi. By this means the peace with the allies. Thofe who pre- army of Italy is in poffeflion of a fuffitend to know the fecret of the difmiflion cient number of ftrong places to push of Pichegru, fay that it has been imputed the war with vigour in the Milanefe and to him as a crime, that he made him- Montferrat, and to cover their retreat in felf the channel of certain pacific pro- cafe of misfortune. pofitions, and that he repaffed the Rhine. only to favour this fyftem, and to encourage what is called the faction of the Ancient Limits!

HOLLAND.

Hague, March 6. In the firft fitting of the National Affembly, Citizen Paulus was unanimoufly elected Prefident; the number compofing the National Affembly was 89. P. Paulus, in accepting the poft, faid, "I declare, in the name of the people of the Low Countries, that this Affembly is the Representative Body of the Belgic people." It was received by the people with the cries of "Vive la Republique !" Citizen Paulus then harangued the Affembly, and propofed that the garrifon of the Hague fhould be under the immediate orders of the Affembly and its Prefident, and that the latter fhould have the watch-word and the capacity of giving orders.

7. Camerling made a report upon the drefs of the members of the National A1fembly; he proposed that it be decreed, that not only the members fhould wear a diftinguithing drefs, but that it fhould be compofed of a scarf of black velvet, on which fhould be embroidered, in letters of gold, the words "Reprefentative of the People;" that the fcarf fhould be tied by national ribbands; that the Reprefentative fhould be distinguished by a common scarf, and that the troops of the line fhould be directed to pay military honours to a member fo decorated. 22. The national assembly have named a Commiffion for forming a new Conftitution for the Republic.

Peter Paulus, the prefident, is dead. The Dutch National Convention have published a proclamation to excite their countrymen to engage in their navy, to humble the pride, and chaftife the infolence of England, and to fupport the glory of the Batavean flag.

It is thought that the prefence of 60,000 Frenchmen will alfo render the Genoefe very tractable, on the demand which the French Government has made of a loan of 30 millions.

SPAIN.

The Court of Madrid has yielded to the remonftrances made by the Marquis of Bute, which has removed the fufpicions entertained of its political conduct. The Spanish miniftry have fent orders to Cadiz to dismantle 20 fail of the line lying in that port; and a French privateer which touched at Alicant, and had taken fome of our veffels, has been ordered from thence to Toulon.

VIENNA.

On the prefentation of the Princefs Royal of France, a particular circle was formed for this folemnity. The Court was equally crowded and brilliant. The Prince's was prefented by the Emprefs herself to the Ambaffadors and their Ladies, and to the Ladies of high rank. Then the other Minifters and Noblemen prefent were prefented in their turn to her Royal Highness.

The French Emigrants were then prefented to her by the Marquis de Gallo, Ambaffador from Naples. They were to the number of fix.

GAZETTE INTELLIGENCE.

Admiralty-Office, March 24.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Draper,
of his Majefty's fhip Porcupine, to
Evan Nepean, Efq; dated in Mount's
Bay, March 21.

SIR, I beg you will be pleased to ac quaint my Lords Commiflioners of the Admiralty, that on the 20th inst. about 7 A. M. the Lizard bearing N. N. E. three or four leagues, I received information from the Fox Excife cutter, that a French privateer had that morning cap. tured an English brig, then bearing The French have taken poffeffion of S. S. W. I accordingly gave chace to

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Admiralty-Office, March 26. Extract of a dispatch from Sir John Borlafe Warren, Bart. K. B, to Evan Nepean, Efq.

SIR, I beg leave to inform you, that on the 15th inftant, in confequence of my letter to their Lordships from Falmouth, I ftood over to the French coaft in fearch of the Artois, who joined me on the 18th; and on the 20th, at daybreak, having difcovered from the maft head feveral fail of veffels, I made the fignal to the fquadron under my command, confifting of the following fhips, Artois, Galatea, and Anfon, for a gene ral chace, and upon our nearer approach, perceived them to be a convoy of the enemy steering in for the land. At ten A. M. being up with part of the mer chant fhips, I captured four, and order ed the Valiant lugger to proceed with them to the neareft port. I continued in pursuit of the men of war, who I foon perceived were endeavouring to preferve their diftance from us, and to avoid an action; but being at length arrived within half gun fhot to leeward, the two fquadrons engaged, and paffed each other upon oppofite tacks. Perceiving them rallying round the Commodore clofe in fhore, and beginning to form again, I made the fignal for ours, in clofe order, to endeavour to break their line, by cutting off the fear fhips, and directed the Galatea to lead down for that purpofe; but the enemy bore away, and made all fail poffible from us, and food into the narrow part of the Raz de `Fontenay among the rocks; I was, however, enabled to cut off their rear fhip, the L'Etoile, of 30 guns, and 160 men.Night approaching, and being unacquainted with the paffage, I did not think it proper to continue the pursuit further, at the rifk of lofing fome of our fhips in fo difficult a pafs. I have the honour to remain, &c. (Signed)

JOHN BORLASE WARREN.

Horfe Guards, March 31. Dispatches from Major Gen. Stuart commanding his Majefty's and the Eaft India Company's troops in the Island of Ceylon, dated Trincomale, October 10. 1795, have been received by the Rt Hon. Henry Dundas, one of his Majefty's principal Secretaries of State; by which it appears, that the fort of Batticaloe, in that ifland, furrendered on the 18th of September to a detachment, under the command of Major Frafer of the 72d regiment. That on the 24th of the faid month, Gen. Stuart embarked from Trincomale, with a confiderable detachment of troops and artillery on board of the Centurion man of war, the Bombay frigate, the Bombay ftore-ship, and the Swallow and John packets, and on the 27th difembarked the troops at Point Pedo, about 24 miles from Jaffnapatam, of which important place he took poffeffion on the following day. That on the firft of October, Captain Page, of his Majefty's fhip Hobart, with a part of the 52d regiment, under the command of the Hon. Capt. Monfon, (on their return from Point Pedro to Trincomale,) took poffeffion of the factory and mili-, tary poft of Molletivoe; and that on the 5th of the fame month, the fort and ifland of Manar furrendered to Captain Barbutt, whom Gen. Stuart had detached on that fervice, with the flank companies of the 72d regiment, and two companies of Sepoys, immediately on his having obtained poffeffion of Jaffnapatam.

A letter from Col. Brathwaite, dated Mradras, Oct. 17. 1795, announces the furrender of Malacca, and its dependencies, on the 17th of Auguft, to the troops fent on that fervice, under the command of Major Brown.

By dispatches from Bengal it also appears, that Chinfurah and its dependencies have been taken, and that the Dutch forces at thofe fettlements are prifoners of war.

Admiralty-Office, April 5.

Copy of a letter from Rear-Admiral Rainier, dated on board his Majefty's fhip Suffolk, in Madras Road, the 15th of October 1795, to Evan Nepean, Efq;

SIR, Yesterday, on the point of failing, I received the inclofed letter and papers from Captain Newcome, giving an account of his proceedings, and par

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ticularly of the fuccefs of the expedition, under his own and Major Browne's orders, of the Hon. Company's infantry, against Malacca, this place being now in the poffeffion of the British troops.

I feel a more than ordinary fatisfaction in announcing this event for their Lord fhips' information, as, on account of the original orce deftined for that service being reduced, my expectations were lefs fanguine; and alfo of its great importance, from the fecurity thereby afforded to the trade of his Majelty's fubjects in the Straits of Malacca and the Chinese feas.

On the fuccefs of his Majefty's arms at Trincomale and Fort Ooftenberg, and on receiving the account of the fame from Malacca, I took upon me to order falutes to be fired by his Majefty's fhips then in port; and on the 13th inftant, at the fuggestion of my Lord Hobart, I directed Captain Lambert, of his Majetty's fhip Suffolk, to fire feventy-eight guns, funeral-wife, on the melancholy occation of the death of his Majelly's faithful ally his highnefs the Nabob of Wallajah, iate Nabob of the Carnatic (the fort of St George, by his Lordthip's orders, paying the fame honours), that particular number of guns being appointed as correfponding to thofe of the years of his late Highness' age; which I trust their Lordships will approve, and notify, to the Board of Ordnace, to be allowe in the feveral gunners monthly expences.

Picale to acquaint their Lordships, that the refidency here have ju received accounts of the furrender of Manar, in the gulf of the fame name.

I have the honour to be, &c.

PETER RAINER. To Peter Rainer, Efq; Commodore and Commander of his Majefty's fhips employed in the Eatt Indies."

SIR, I arrived here on the 15th inftant with his Majefty's thip under my command, the Ewer and Carnatic tranfports, and a part of the convoy, having parted company with his Majesty's fhip Refiftance, in the night of the 13th, between the Sandheads. Captain Pakenham joined company again in Malacca road on the 17th in the morning.

By the inclofed letters you will fee that we were obliged to commence hoftilities, which began by the Refiftance firing a few guns at the Conftantia (a

Dutch Indiaman run into the mud), which the returned by firing two guns and then Itriking her colours. From the great affistance afforded me by the boats from the China fleet, &c. I was enabled to land all the troops, with two fix pounders at the fame time. They left the fhips at feven P. M. on the 17th, and reached the fhore by nine P. M. At half past nine P. M. an officer came on board the Orpheus from the Governor, to furrender the place on our terms; they then delivered over St John's post, a commanding work well furnished with cannon, about 1300 yards from the fort, and 200 from the place of conference, to a fubaltern with a party of our gre nadiers, and we entered the fort with the remainder of the British detachment. The garrifon being thus completely in our power, and unconditionally, further than the fecuring of property, the Dutch guards were permitted to remain armed at their pofts, until the Governor, whom we then accompanied to his houle, gave, in his own hand-writing to Major Browne, a detail of the guards, which were then relieved by the British troops. From the anxious detire of complying with his Majefty's orders, we have agreed to the inclofed capitulation, and every thing now appears perfectly quiet, and all parties reconciled.

I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) HENRY NEWCOME. Orpheus, Malacca Roads, Aug. 25. 1795(Then follow the articles).

Admiralty-Office, April 15. Extract of a letter from Sir Edward Pellew, Bart. to Mr Nepean, dated off Quiberon, the 9th of April 1796.

On the 20th ultimo, we chaced three corvettes, one of which, La Volage of 26 guns, we drove on fhore under a battery in the mouth of the Loire, and difmaited her, but fhe was afterwards got off. In this affair the Amazon had four men wounded; the other two fhips got into the Loire. We have alfo captured and deftroyed eleven ships and veffels. EDWARD PELLEW

Horfe Guards, April 16. A letter, dated Calcutta, has been received by the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, from Major General Sir Robert Abercromby, K. B.

"I have the honour to inform you, that Major Petrie, foon after the furren

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