To authorize the issuing of commissions and letters of marque and reprisal against his majesty's enemies, to such ships and vessels, belonging to his majesty, as are or may be employed in the service of the boards of customs and excise, and other public boards in this kingdom. For allowing, until the 1st day of August, 1802, the importation of certain fish from Newfoundland, and the coast of Labrador, and for granting a bounty thereon. To extend the powers of an act, passed in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of his late majesty king George II, intituled, "An act for the better securing to constables and others, the expenses of conveying offenders to gaol, and for allowing the charges of poor persons bound to give evidence against felons;" and for allowing to high constables, in that part of the united kingdom, called England, their charges in certain cases. For the better regulation of public notaries in England. To indemnify all persons who have printed, published, or dispersed, or who shall publish or disperse, any papers printed under the authority of any head officer of state, or of public boards, or other public authorities, from all penalties incurred by reason of the name and place of abode of the printer of such papers not being printed thereon. For enabling his majesty to raise the sum of two millions, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. For raising the sum of six millions five hundred thousand pounds, by loan, or exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1801. For raising the sum of three millions, by loans, or exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1801. For granting to his majesty certain sums of money out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, and out of the consolidated fund of Ireland; for applying certain moneys therein mentioned, for the service of the year 1801; and for farther appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament. For better payment of fines and forfeitures imposed by justices out of session in England. For granting to his majesty additional stamp duties on cards and dice; on probates of wills; on certain indentures, leases, bonds, or other deeds; and on ale licences. For granting unto his majesty certain duties on playing cards imported into Great Britain. For providing accommodations in assize towns for the judges in Ireland, where such accommodations are not already provided. For repealing the duty now payable on the importation of statues, wrought stone, and marble, and granting another duty in lieu thereof. For the more speedy and effectual recovery of debts due to his majesty, his heirs and successors, in right of the crown of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and for the better administration of justice within the same. For the better regulation and collection of certain duties of excise. To alter the bounties payable on wheaten flour and Indian corn imported into Ireland; and for providing a method for recovering the forfeitures created by an act of this session of parliament to prohibit the making making of malt, and distilling of spirits from corn or grain in Ireland. To continue, until the 25th day of March, 1802, so much of an act, made in the present session of parliament, as permits British hops to be imported into Ireland, at a low rate of duty. To empower the importers or proprietors of rum or spirits of the British sugar plantations to land the same in Ireland, before payment of the duties of excise charged thereon, and to lodge the same in warehouses, at their own expense, until the 25th day of March, 1808. To facilitate the trade and interCourse between Ireland and the United States of America, during the continuance of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between his majesty and the said states. For the better regulation of his majesty's prize courts in the West Indies and America, and for giving a more speedy and effectual execution to the decrees of the lords commissioners of appeals. To continue several laws relating to encourage the fisheries carried on at Newfoundland and parts adjacent, from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British dominions in Europe, until the 1st day of January, 1803; to the farther support and encouragement of the fisheries carried on in the Greenland seas, and Davis's Straits, until the 25th day of December, 1802; to the making the port of St. John's, in the island of Antigua, a free port, until the 10th day of July, 1805; and to the permitting the importation of goods and commodities from countries in America, belonging to any foreign European sovereign or state, in neue tral ships until the end of the war, and six months after the signing the definitive treaty of peace; for reviving and farther continuing, until the 24th day of June, 1806, an act, made in the twenty-ninth year of his late majesty, king George II, for granting a bounty upon certain species of British and Irish linens exported, and taking off the duties on importation of foreign raw linen yarns made of flax; for reviving, continuing, until the 5th day of April, 1802, and amending an act, made in the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of the reign of his present majesty, for the more effectual encouragement of the British fisheries; and for making perpetual so much of an act, made in the 27th year of the reign of his present majesty, as relates to ascertaining the strength of spirits by Clarke's hydrometer. For defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia of Ireland, for one year, from the 25th day of March, 1801. For granting bounties for taking and bringing fish to the cities of London and Westminster, and other places in the united kingdom. To repeal the tax on salaries, profits of employment, fees, and pensions in Ireland, of persons not resident in Ireland for a certain period. For regulating, until the 1st day of May, 1802, the trial of controverted elections or returns of members to serve in the united parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, for that part of the united kingdom called Ireland; and for regulating the qualifications of members to serve in the said united parliament. To stay, until the 25th day of March, 1802, proceedings in actions, under the statute of king Henry VIII, " for abridging spi ritual ritual persons from havingpluralities in parts beyond the seas, other than the dominions of his majesty. of livings, and from takingof serms. To empower his majesty to regulate the trade and commerce to and from the isle of Malta, until the signing a definitive treaty of peace, and from thence until six weeks after the next meeting of parliament; and to declare the isle of Malta to be part of Europe. For indemnifying such persons as have acted since the 25th day of March, 1799, for the preservation of the public peace, and suppression of insurrections and rebellion prevailing in several districts of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland. To authorize the judges to whom petitions for certain bills shall be referred, to examine witnesses upon oath. To secure certain persons, born within the territories of France, and other persons therein described, from imprisonment for debts contracted For the farther encouragement of learning in the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by securing the copies and copyright of printed books, to the authors of such books, or their assigns, for the time herein mentioned. For enabling his majesty to grant commissions for executing an act, made in the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, "An act for the better preservation of timber in the New Forest, in the county of Southampton, and for ascertaining the boundaries of the said forest, and of the lands of the crown within the same. For consolidating in one, act, certain provisions usually inserted in acts of inclosure; and for facilitat ing the mode of proving the several facts usually required on the passing of such acts. METEOROLOGICAL 1799. Deg. | Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. Deg. Inches. Inches inches. Deg. Deg. Deg. inches. 53 64,7 0,791 July. 79 52 63,9 70 61 August 79 54 66,1 72 65 September 73 47 61,3 66 58 October. 65 34 53,2 64 56 November 60 26 42,5 62 49 December. 50 24 38,1 55 45 65,9 30,12 29,38 29,77 Whole Year 51,8 59,0 29,84 72,5 19 197 STATE *The quicksilver in the basin of the barometer is 81 feet above the level of low water spring-tides at Somerset House. STATE PAPERS, His Majesty's Speech to both Houses, on opening the Imperial Parliament, 2d February, 1801. A My lords and gentlemen, Ta crisis so important to the interests of my people, I derive great satisfaction from being enabled, for the first time, to avail myself of the advice and assistance of the parliament of my united kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land. This memorable æra, distinguish ed by the accomplishment of a measure, calculated to augment and consolidate the strength and resources of the empire, and to cement more closely the interests and affections of my subjects, will, I trust, be equally marked by that vigour, energy, and firmness, which the circumstances of our present situation peculiarly require. The unfortunate course of events on the continent, and the consequences which must be expected to result from it, cannot fail to be matter of anxiety and concern, to all who have a just feeling for the security and independence of Europe. Your astonishment, as well as your regret, must be excited by the conduct of those powers, whose attention, at such a period, appears to be more engaged in endeavours to weaken the naval force of the British empire, which has hitherto opposed so powerful, an obstacle to the inordinate ambition of France, than in concerting the means of mutual defence against their common and increasing danger. The representations which I di rected to be made to the court of Petersburgh, in consequence of the outrages committed against the ships, property, and persons of my subjects, have been treated with the utmost disrespect : and the proceedings of which I complained have been aggravated by subsequent acts of injustice and violence. Under these circumstances, a convention has been concluded by that court, with those of Copenhagen and Stockholm; the object of which, as avowed by one of the contracting parties, is to renew their former engagements for establishing by force a new code of maritime law, inconsistent with "the rights, and hostile to the interests of this country. In this situation, 1 could not hesitate as to the conduct which it be came me to pursue. I have taken the earliest measures to repel the aggressions of this hostile confederacy, and to support those principles which are essential to the main tenance |
