Edinburgh Advertiser, The (Newspaper) - December 11, 1798, Edinburgh, Midlothian VOL LXX THE No EDINBURGH ADVERTISER From FRIDAY DECEMBER 7 to TUESDAY DECEMBER n 1798 POST tre LONDON PAPERS Die 5 L O N D O N doubt is entertained of the CAP TUKE of the ISLAND of MINORCA by the forces under General STUART The of this will be of the molt important to country In a point cf view the attending this cap- ture are very the whole ot the Mediterranean trade will revert to us our hips will find in and in their up and down the which the cf Malta bv the a that may reckoned upon will form a valuable A letter from Leghorn dated the sd November mentions that the of the French and men of war at Alexandria was completed It adds had been obliged to to Alexandria bat too late to re-embark Five different fets of Gentlemen arrived in to hear the explanation of the Mi- preparatory to the Bidding for the Loan PITT to the turns which would probably be quired in the vear and particularly hs intended to make in the courie ot it Mr re ed that he knew he could only live a very hearing a blow up he muttered all his and if we were allured we Sir laughter Clayton's created a good deal of amount of FOURTEEN as in the Commons of Two MILLIONS for Ireland were he waved his hand over his head luce times in tion of cheers and like another WOLFE The Captain of the being wounded and three Lieutenants killed her quarter-deck was for a hot time left with only a little boy an Officer's upon it This little Hero however kept to die men on the main deck Fire away fire away never fejr we hall them away my never In this this boy found by the Officer duty it became to the command and we doubt oo but the boy has re- tjut and patronage to which his fo him On night Lord and Lady CATHCART Rave a and aad a to their MAJESTIES ihe he PRINCE of of CLARENCE PRINCES EDWARD acd and the v HORRID at iz on day drote his coach the rivir at at him alfo this would a great reduction the Bridge for the common but imprudent of wafh- in permanent taxes The property of country was f L were i dei one i 3 man on the box Bridge fighting and j Even if it to the extent it e to the gling for their lives till one in the The be giving up a perm lien for a temporary of in his hsd enta gled his legs in the from Qn he you he fill kit He never troubled the Houfe but once before but the Uie of the country was fuch that man ought his ments He would this through every Stage in the Committee the tax upon places and The was then read a time Sir Sinclair rofe M his for thinking that Houfe ought to be Called over before the important was decided upon It had always been previous to the of greai to call the for the of enforcing a more regular at- and he did not think that upon the fion fuch The plan of for the would the of a great nice and delicate which it would require the of the Houfe to decide The idea of taxing fons in England for property which they had in other countries appeared to him very dangerous as it might tend to encourage Emigration It appeared to itn there being a high and the the at loo millions of that 30 now went into the Ex- fjon driven the centre of the forced un- chequer there only remained 70 millions for of the arches and m that they with the and it was now to reduce it to 60 He mentioned that as he well aware that practices had been employed for the of the Stocks with a view to the j and is he was they woold rife whenever the full effect of the plan tor Redemption of the of which was impeded by the difficulties which had been experienced in iome places in the Act into therefore a Loan ot THREE MILLIONS leaving the remaining as veil as the Two for Ireland to in February as Mr PITT faid he he expected be able to make a much better bargain for the Public This mo ion was very by the Loar who ruu come to for the whole Sixteen Millions 1 he tlemen who attended had notice therefore that on Fri lay next would be received for a Loan of Three 1 The Lifts formed for the Loan amount in value to near a Hundred Millions Tnis proves at once ths wealth and of the Country A B is to be brought into the Houfe of Com- to remove fome anfen in chafing the Land Tax when it is many will Stock which will the funds Mr PITT made the in the of Commons on Monday We a Phenomenon in the of it has often been thought and has been ills dieme cf that as Nations became Mercantile they loft in Martial Spirit what they gained in Avidity that it is of the ot to be and that notions of Honour are incompatible with the of Traffic This hypothetic has been to Lr in ot ihe n It year Gat AT BRITAIN has the Glorious Example of a tne Spirit of when fne acquired the Degree of Commerce In no time of c them he extricated with a knife when fortunately m- over on the i ing nearly in contact with a dyer's fiat he by an fort jumped from the box upon the fame where he Uy in a of The Efter that the Houfe mould be Mr Tyrwhitt the Call as there fo full an attendance v lien the opened his pian I i i rt 1 a J HIV about the river tome tim followed their to the flat d w of who thought to their forefeet upon U the poor f fa g f y the little he had left held up the head of one o th J j h of Mr Martin alfo the motion he thought the proper to tMi But who in t j j j without a halt up owing to the of the i s r i r their holds and again plunged into the after j The Allowing IS a of Houfe nothing more of him Happy would it of Commons had the calamity ended here in the morning the Aft made in the laft of OR following called of pteple to fee the bodies of j be repealed the among others a group of nine or ten women j That annually term to be H- and very got together on a dyer's the Rates and Duties upon all mocking to reUte the bottom of the gave way and they were ali precipitated into the were coine anting frern property in Great belonging any of his not in Great life the of the current ie e- j Britain and upon Income of every endeavour to Save the others and they were all i Great and cf every Body Corporate or pt away The following are of J Company Fraternity or Society c-f whether cor- yt woman and her alfo out by a dyer's dog The animal for a woman but it was 103 late Mifs Anna Rail Mifs Jam j or not in Great whether any and A income anfe from Tenements or A who was POST From the PAPERS Dee 7 L O D O HOUSE OF COMMONS Dec PITT brought up and ated that it b read a lime Robert rofe to the e to but his was tc MR c j Support men but If he m the tht People of BRITAIN exhibit a j other not have agreed with a cervin Ba- railer of Spirit they dunog the year 1 in til cf reducing ths number of when alto 10 of j by no hive been are n us the j Jf it for ihe Kavy not be fits as wei is ot the they h We fuch a Me menis the fame Britain or or from any kind of or whatever or from any Tr de rr not sn Income of Sixty to be exempted 60 and under 65 to a not 10 and fee the molt coun IiO nolt netting to from j diesis or in the other j they ate thrft by which they weie to He the public lo lie i on their fate and looking to ihe traces of p r i- lie did approve cf giving it H CTC Lull on out or ot to the He to Lave given not fc to anv Loans to Foreign i pu luirg D- ard j Tie for years bir -5 have trod in ne Path of K a ij they never with iie of felt in Honour tfi and te ths 30 of continued of tc appears an end there h vi in and obliged o lied ic fo Mieir e C S in ery from the 1 him s 1 the his inc i a in ey If eiten it o ihe of 1 bfj d He roved of The of brinn j Ppen the of f t on of the the of to thai ir bv tin if of his h s irt n