Star. — London, England, 1816-03-22 00:00:00

of he re g. It s the e to but , in 41 7 11111.1." ;:y beld respecting the nem. • ibo 4 411 i t y if contittning the .Income Tax.—A certain ; a do of extravagant salaries, perqu;sires, , pen., i r ib — oet mother words bribes and corruption, m.ay s till be considered by them necessary to enable them to ca rry on the necessary measures of Government— to command a majority ; and in consequence a few tusetissals of Clerks, Messengers, and Porters, may h e industriously mustered into a printed Report ot considerable length, exhibiting great industry in the d eta il, while every essential of economy is wanting. yot li csae ss would understand better what comes of t h e Nstioual Revenue were those Millions which are or lumped into totals in the printed Reports, exhi bited in m i n utia, with the names of the individuals to I mo the money is paid, and the services for whic h k is given. Osten will only allow themselves to look c a s ayst the Vote of last Monday, they will view it se 00 most promising event that has occurred for, testsr iss, as to the promise of support which it holds at t o Coma:neat, without the necessity of corrup. o cs ; a undue influence to enable them to command onority. Does not the vote alluded to amount to s declaration that the Majority of the House of Com mons will support proper measures, not only without bit is opposition* , the influence of corruption ? Who bare_ Ministers to fear then in fairly setting s hoat a mama reform of the public expeeditere Th at ;hey wall be left in a minority on any desirable oo d proper measure t Quite the reverse. The Lode poise 'Attest will support every proper object s— and what is more, they have shesvis that they will resist detestable measures ; or, in other words, that t h e y will pot Ministers in the minority, if the 110 / 11• ow and wickedness of the rsoussity of corrupting, tot facilitating the dispatch of public business, be not instaatly and honestly abandoned. Why were many of the public salaries incteased of lee years! To enable the servants of the public to weet their increased expenses, occasioned by the rise brim price of necessaries, and the effect of the In. etas and other War Taxes. The prices of necessa. is have fallen I the Income Tax has been abolished: in equity, therefore, their salaries should and must be reduced. But we carry the argument of Necessity far. then—The 'country cannot bear farther taxation. The emery demands a reduction of the imposts. The country Ciglif afford a certain revenue, and necessity demands &gibe expenditure be reduced to that scale s —Nothing is easier than to contrive modes of spend-1 legume!, to add up the totals, and then to say the sem wasted is so many millions. This mode with j det Government must be reversed as in the case of ptivate individuah..••••• We have now only so much j income, how can we divide and apportion this so as te retrieve our circumstances and avoid running in debt in future." Lee the Empire declare its sentiments frau) ono ad to the other ; let heart and band, the Ministers of the Crown and the Representatives of the People, be united in the grand work of retrenchment and economy, and Britain will soon rise triumphant over the temporary embarrassments occasioned by a long en; but if, in a time of peace, the waste, the profit imp the extravagance, the corruption and wasting expenditure of a time of war is to be continued, the emustry can look forward to nothing but inevitable rah By letters to the end of July last from Karnoul, in the Balm, we learn, that when the Government ex pected a long repose, a new war bad suddenly broken at and extended itself from the Southernmost point the Eastern boundary, as low down as Chittigon, tp to the Northernmost parts of India, where Euro. pant had never before set foot. The British arms hive achieved, by their valour, the expulsion of the Ivey, more formidable in themselves than the *Re value of the conquered territory ; but the ex. lakure and the loss sustained have been consider. iblre among which is to I* estimated that of a nbin kr of our best Officers on the Establishment.— tale regiments of native infantry, six or eight of local and provincial battalions, and nearly 50,000 araselar troops of cavalry and infantry have been aaPloyed ; and the war does not appear to have been eked on the eastern confines of India, while a war with the hlahrattas on the West was generally ex- Pad when the letters came away. Lord Mass, as absence of a year, was on hip return to Cal. M, from whence it was supposed he would mume th next campaign, after new arrangements had been Irak and the rains had ceased, so as to enable the y to take the field. His Lordship's proclamation *dated, that 44. the sword should not be ',sheathed lota the Company was indemnified for the e.xpences af the war." The Napaul Government, which is de present seat of the war, is a very fine climate, and a dur ing some part of the year is superior to that of mend. The severe cold and heavy snow among t he hills, during the last winter, delighted the British troop s as much as it punished the Sepoys, who were, however, liberally supplied with warm clothing and duck sham, to enable them to climb the rugged lad dipper, mountains. Very few of them died, though they suffered much for several days, Gr'mkaha, their opponents, are a race of dirni. Wee men, who had conquered a large truck of ataitg et , and in t h e pay of the NApaul Govern -Itt. They are extremely brave and undaunted by "net or death, and an overmatch for the Sepoys, liter w hom '" — usuy exercised their rasor.like sabres mat mercy, and drove them before them, wait • the flying rout was tweed bOAliiiiifeet of grxpeAtt from the British artallicy. oho charged tair guirs sword in hand in tee must intripid manner, and destroyed the Europeans who were 'working them. At one place two field.pieees ' were actively woe* for some time by one artslierj offiCOr ad a Oilinear serjeant. The sabres and agility of these mountain dwarfs furniihed ample occupation for the regular troops An irriVal froni America has furnished us with Washington Papers to the 16th" ultimo, with New York to.the 19th, and with Papers from Boston to the 21st of the same month. A difference has taken place between the Senate and House of Representatives, in regard to the Jodi concerning the Commercial Conventivn betty he United States and Great Britain. The House of Representatives had passed vat iousaniendnients to the bill, and in that state sent it to the Senate. On the 12th, the Senate resumed the consideration 'of the bill with the amendments, which they rejected by a large majority, leaving the bell precisely as it stood at &fir. On the 18ut, the message of the Senate rejecting the amendments was taken into considera tion in the House of Representatives, when, ou motion of Mr. FORSYTH, the House determined to insist op its Amendments, and to ask a conference thereon with the Senate. On the same day `the House resolved itself into a Committee of the whole,. to cake into Consideration the bill for the relief ‘4 . ir 'min refugees from the &With provinces duritrg late wars After ail animated debate, the. bill wits left undecided; but, on the motion of Mr. JOHNSON, was ordered to be laid on the table. On the 140, Mr. Bvitwitt,t, made the following I motion in the House of Representatives: Resolves% w That the Secretary of the Treasury he directed to inform the Home whether discriminating doles are at this time holed in ports of the United Stites on urinal vessels arriving front tie West Indies , and laden with Wei,' lie is produce" Mr. Buftwet.t. coaceived tins question had not been fairly understood. The petitioners to the House on the subject seemed to think that they had to struggle against the impediments thrown in their way by the British colonial policy, without any countervailing advantages in American ports. This he conceived to be incorrect the CAtectors, no doubt, were dif ferently instructed from the Treasury Department ; if not, the House should be informed. According to existing laws, all vessels corning from the British West Indies were subject, until tine lOth of June, to ten per cent. discrimuiating duty in favour of A me: rican vessels, and ute tonnage duty of two dollars laid by that Act; alter that period, to the same di:- cm:mist:on, stp•.a an advance upon the old duties o a f 42 per cent.—Mr. Burwell's resolution was agreed to. In consequence el Mr. Jefferson's opinion haVing been quoted, that America should rely upon Eng. land for manufactures, he has publicly declared, that though such was his opinion formerly, it has been changed by time and circumstances ; and he charges those who have quoted his former opinions with using it merely as a stalking horse to keep America in eter. nal vassalage to a foreign and unfriendly nation. The same malignant spirit which dictates this calumny against England, inspires its author with prophecies (false ones we trust) of fresh convulsions in France, when Sampson (isi the el-avant President denomi nates she viers of oho irowohstion) atoll once more burst the hoods of the Philistines. The Dey of Algiers, it seems, charges Commo dore Decatur with duplicity in the mrasures which led to the late arrangement. The Bowe Patriot says in reference to this rumour- 0 We are pleased to find that we shall have a *avid force in the Mediterranean more than sufficient to keep alive those favourable impressions awakened by the appearance of the first squadron, and have therefore no reason to fear the Dey's hostility, if there be any foundation for the reports that he has had a relapse since the first cure of his complaint." On the other hand, some part of the American public are not with i out apprehension* of a land war. The commanding officer at Fort Wayne, on the Miami of the Lakes, had written to a Member of Congress, that the British had sent out runners among all the tribes of Indians to the North and West, inviting the war chiefs, with their young and most active warriors, to come with as little delay as possible to Malden. The intention of this sum mons did not appear, and in all probability the fact itself was exaggerated. BALTIMORE, FEBRUARY 14. That the Spanish Minister is dissatisfied, his cor respondence with the Secretary of State sufficiently proves ; and as it is now pretty generally known that a number of Americans from various parts of the United States have actually engaged is an expedition hostile to the King of Spain. it is not to be doubted that his dissatisfaction will greatly increase, and with good cause, if our Government take no steps to pre. vent such improper conduct in its citizens, but by is suing proclamations. We sincerely hope, however, that the prudence and forbearance of the Minister of his Moat Catholic Majesty may continue to be exerted to prevent that lepton between the two nations which we fear is wished for by tee many of our citizens, bath in and out of office.—(Raters! Gangue.) Estract ofd letter from an O ffi cer attached to Lord Exisotrrn's fleet in the Mediterranean. dm& Malta, the 25th of January. 1816 2—" The pirating( Barbarj have for some doe past . committed depredations on almost every power in Europe. fret success had made them to insolent, that they at lase attacked the English flag. Sir Taosui MAITLAND, die Governor of Malta, in consequence embarked is es Bombay to put a stop to their career. Tripoli acceded to all the Governer proposed, sad at Tunis a negotiation soon settled every . thing. The Bev went on beard the Bombay on a visit, and,,after par. ,taking of a cold collation, returned to the shore. The, riches displayed by himself and suite in their dress, &c. was beyond conception. He made a present so the Governor of a lion, ostriches, horses, a beautiful fowling-piece. and a pair of pistols set in coral. To the ship—bullocks, sheep, poultry of all seas, coifee .. sugar, rice, &c. sufficient for a week's consumption s besides 1,000 dollar:, to he distributed amongst the people. On the return of the Bombay to Malta, she was ordered to the lonian Islands with money to pay the troops. where the plaque had begun its ravages. A village not far. from Corte had been burnt, and others were to share the same fate. In consequent* of this, the Bombay returned immediately, and was placed under the strictest quarantine." S. pra re • The 444 nimbi: of persons that have belonge ,to the 42d regiment from 1797 to the present tient, is 13.127. There are 'only three men in the cap. that fought against Bonaparte's Invincible, in Egypt I The first division of the regiment arrived in Edia liarghon Monday. OA, the arrival of the 42d Regiment at Alawick, 'the Officers received a dinner frnm the Duke of Not. txuarsaatawn's Comeuisbiauers, and everY man got a tankard of ale with bread A nd cheese. IXTRACT OF A LITT'S /lOU A narrisn.ormant, WOW AT CALM,, DAVID MAWR 12. • " A grand ball was given last night to the princi pal inhabitants of Calais and its vicinity, by the Right Hon. Lieutenant-General Caws. Major SHAWS, the Commandant, and the English Officers and Gen• tlemen resident in the town.. About '7OO persons were present. The Theatre was. decorated with the English arms and bust of Lome XVIII. surrounded by the flaws of both nations. Oa the entrance of the Mayor, the orchestra played 11W Henri Qoortr • ; and on the British Commandant's appearance. G.d taw the King was loudly called for by the French. and played. The utmost harmony prevailed, and every one appeared delighted with the magnificent scale upon which every thing was conducted. Six English Officers were appointed Stewards; and the surplus of the money subscribed has been given to t the poor of the town." FALMOUTH, MARCH re. It consequence of the severity of the weatkek s Ak Charles transport (hound for Ireland), with lee companies of the Rifle Brigade on boan, put into this harbour on the 12th inst. The Officers were immediately waited en by a Gentleman of the town, and invited to a ball and sapper on Friday evening last, which was attended by all the fashionables of the neighbburhood. The supper rooms were throws open at twelve o'clock, the tables were laid out in the most tasteful manner, and every delicacy was provided that the season could afford. After sapper the dancing recommenced, and the party did not break up before six o'clock. It is said, that the trial of Sir R. Wusnw and Messrs. IiUTEHINIPON and BRUCE is expected to Come on about the iih of next month. Several British Noblemen and Gentlemen will, it is said, be reques ted to give evidence. Among others Earl Gag: is 'mentioned. We regret to state, that Mr. TIGHE, one of the Representatives for the County of Wicklow, died yesterday. The Island of St. Helena cost the East India Com pany £7OOO a year, out of which the Governor found a table fur the passengers and officers of the Com. pany's ships. Ministers have settled on their Gover nor, and excused him from keeping a table, per ar.- num, £12,000; a Deputy Qu irter-Master.General, Deputy Adju tant-General ; a garrison of 1200 men; a table for BONAPARTE ; 4000 ton of transports em. ployed in serving it with provisions and stores, esti mated at sl/80,000 a year, and a squadron of ships to guard him at £lOO,OOO. The house of M. BRRTRAND is said to cost 43057 per annum, and the whole charge is not less than 5e500,000 a year; whereas, Dumbarton Castle or the Tower, he might have been kept with equal safety, and v. Setter table, far 41000 a year. Here then is a saving, which would pay the interest of a Loan of 46,000,000, in lieu of the Income Tax. Among the items in the Civil" List accounts, are, a sum of At 3093. 'l2s. 6d. for equipages to the Hon. C. BAOOT o our Minister to America ;—and of £4Ol 1. 4s. Sd. to the Hon. F. LAMS; our Minister to the Court of Bavaria. A gratuity of £520. ls. 6d. to &WAND MICHAZI. WNW, E s q. for hining brought from Vienna, the Gener +I Treaty of Congress. is ow of the items in the Civil List. The receipts from the Excise-Office into the Ex chequer, for England, from the sth January, 1815, to sth February, 1815, total, 41,814,834, and for the corresponding month in 1614 41,91!2,145. For Scotland, from the sth January, 1815, to sth Fe. bruary, 1815, 4139400; and for the corres ponding month, in 1816, 4150,000.—Grand total or Eng. land, of the year ended the sth January, 1815, 423,649,676; ditto of the year ended sth January, 1816, 424,796,633. Grand total for Scotland, of the year ended the sth Jan. 1815, 41,614,400; ditto for the year ended sth January, 1816.41,741,000. It appears, from at statement made on Wednesday ,night in the House of Commons, that the aggregate amount of debts discharged under the Insolvent Act exceeds five millions and a half, to satisfy which there are not assets to the amount of 41,500. The remission of the Malt Duty, besides being a vast relief to the farmer, as constitutive , in fact, a bounty on the sale of barley, will be a to the, people at large, by affording diem as et it ought to do, and we trust will do, a pkntiful supply of good bee r,: and at a cheap rate. Though malt has of late been so cheap, the brewers have not low. wed the price of beer in proportion, thoegh they Helena, as a cover for a high pries, to have snadel tfie been better. Betteir and beaper they should by compelled by law to make it. A few years ago the London brewers prosecuted the London Newspapers for accusing them of using deleterious drugs. Lord Euxusostooon called on them to swear they used nothing but malt and hops. They could not, and; they were glad then to abandon their shameless attack on the Press.—Let an Aet of Parliament; compel them to use nothing but malt and hops, and; the health as well as the pockets of the people will ; be protected. Piumirretetti err Banatravoi—Wednesday morning Wu wait Comm started a little before six o'clock in a kid near Banbury, and with great ease, at eight; at eight, completed his labour of 50 miles; he start.; ed again yesterday morning at six o'clock, and had, whin the Mail was setting off at four o'clock, com pleted 40 miles, and was going on in high spirits, fully intending to perform his preceding day's un dertaking. Matitarcturtv Oocuanancr.--.Saturday last, as Williszn Rogers, an industrious l a b o u r i ng man , was proceeding along at. Paul's Church-yard, he dropped down and instantly expired; and yesterday his wife was run over in Whitecross.street, and killed on the ipot. They have left six cbikireo, the youngest not more than six months old. . NAVAL INTRkLIGINCIL "AIN '• rm.morrrn. MARCH HD. Smiled the For Packet, with Mails fee abreta tad Malta; and the Congo schooner. Red 1 ). 4 ..thY millapait; ter Africa.---Wind N.W. • PoR rsmot/ ni. MARCH el. Aerived the Ocean, Klbank, and Britisit Ii st, root Ireland.. Win .1 B.W. DEAL, MARCH Can* down from the River the Hnn. Compsny's .hips Warren Htstings, Asia, sad Trt-mens hoer, foe Madre, and B",ngal, sad remain to the Downs with the rest of the outward bound and homeward Etst In Names as pet last. Came down land sailed, the Sydney picket far the S nit'. SrAeo•n. Pot.back by contrary winds, the Partite& 'tampon, Masten Madero b 'nth! to Emhden, with a detach nuns of the 7th Regiment on board, for their dads nation. Arrived the Brittonic trangpoto, No. 413, VirALEIR master, four days's:sage fr m Cawk ; and the Unanimity, RICHARD!, rags Cork for London. HARWICH, MARCH RI. Sailed the Earl of Leicester Picket, with a Mail 4nd Passengers for Holland the Aucktind Packet, with a Mad and - Nsaengers for Cu►rhaven. GRAVESEND, MARCH al. Sailed the Colonial, Lt. Anita/on% tot Birbadoes ; Livonia, C. W. KIIIINEDY, for the H tvannah. The Hallam, just arrived at Portsmouth from the Mediterranean, has one of the most beautiful leopards on board that ever came from Africa, for ale PROWS REGENT, sent home by General D-v, Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar, which, from .he very ample supply of provisions sent on board by his Excellency, and the great care taken of the animal on the passage by Lieutenant Mows, has arrived in most excellent condition, and will be seat round to the River in one of the transports the first fair wind. The Jamaica papers of the 29th of Januiry contain a Proclamation, issued by the conquerors of Car , lia- Pene, addressed to the inhabitants of that city. roclamation is of's persuasive And conciliatory 114. lure ; and after pointing out that the Royalist troops, instead of being what they had seen stated to be, are well disciplined and humane, proceeds as follow;; " These are the generous troops which now occupy this city. Say, yourselves, could you have expected to experience such discipline, such humanity oo their part, comparing these noble virtues of the Spanish soldier with the conduct which you were compelled to observe by your pretended liberators ? I have myself seen my compassionate soldiers snatch from the jaws of death your brothers, already upon the brink of breathing ;heir lastb in con iteruence of the rigour of hunger. If then, after contrasting the situation of the inhabitants, under the ;foam. nion of the Insurgent, and that under the Go. vernment of their lawful Sovereign, conclutits as ha. lows : I shall watch over pow repose—remain trim. quil—recever your natural gaiety—wend your arms to the other inhabi t ants of the new king& m, and t... 11 them, those whom our Tyrant pointed out to us es wild beasts are our beloved brothers; they have em. braced us with tenderness—the Spanish soldier, is noble as be is valiant, has had compassion upon our miseries, and has liberated us from the plague at 4 famine. Come, beloved neighbours of the new biog. dom of Granada, let us join i.urselires together under fie protecting influence of the Spaniet laws Let not the good man fear to be again peruubed by the factious, but let the seditionoremele and be repressed at the sight of the scaffold. Titii proclamation is dated Carthagena, 12th December, 181.5, and signed by M. de Montaloo. The strong inducements held out to Adventurers by the Scheme of the New L , ttery, •Ind the per y limited number of Tickets which it contains, h .ve already been felt by the Office Keepers ; the Ou'ers for Particular or Favourite Nualbers arc even now numerous. PARISIAN FASHIONS..--S 0 many flowers are wont upon hats, that in the millinerb' shops, were they are placed on stages, at a distance you seen thing but flowers. Sometimes, upon the same hat, along. side tufts of lilac, are yellow narcissus. Tit: blonde is still in general use foe trimming and bordering hats. Sometimes we see green capiites with two green branches, one on the leaf and the other on the top of the crown. Crape hats of citron colour are commonly ornamented with tofu of lilac. We have seen upon some hats of Gros ds Nays', of pale yel low colour, lilac plaits and tufts of lilac. Madame SACHI. the rope dancer, receives from the liberal Managers of Covent Garden Theist:, per , nig_ht. LECRUII.•..At least three hundred and fifty work. men tare now actively employed on this new nati.mal Opera House, which is to be completed ready for opening by the middle of the nut month, at an esti. mated' expense of seventy thousand pounds. It dies not appear internally to be larger than the old Theatre ; but it is calculated that it will hold about 450 more. The Pit is spacious,- and the descent from tho front Boxes to the Orchestra will give the audience an uninterrupted view of the performances from Avery seat. There are two tiers of Boxes. Be.. hind,dte front of the dress circle, are seven privete ones, for the isecocomOdation of parcics, which will "hold from four" to twelie persons each, the Lime as in the Bath Theatre. The fronts of tire Bites and Galleries ire to be painted a cool stone colour, taste. fatly oruatnentel with gold mouldings; the arm cushions of the Boxes crimson velvet fringed, and the backs and divisions of the Boxes a pale rose colour. The Stage will be one hundred feet in depth. under which is sunk a space to give room for the' working of the most complicated machinery. The old en. trance to the Bores, from the Strand, is continued, and a new one made from Ezeteristreet. The l'it and Gallery doors will be in Exeter.cha3ge.enurt, which leads through from the east entrance of Exeter Changito Exeter-street. Conts•Ezcoaset, MARCH 22.—We had but a short supply of Wheat' this morning, and the demand having increased, sales were brisk at an advance of 2s. per quarter. Early in the morning B Arley sold rather higher than on Wednesday, but the demand afterwards subsided, and sales were heavy at Mon. day . ; prices. In Peas, Beans and other articles there is no alteration. :Mrs HFIELD MARKET, MARCH ea. *sot as 04 to Ss Od Veal 6. OJ to Ss Se Mullaa bOdtos. Od 1 Pork 4A Od t• Od Beam 710—keep sad Lambs 11,710-• Calves 130—Pigs 410 HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD. Meadow Hay SI Mk a a Rs f Clover SI OS I* It Oa. 7