Star. — London, England, 1816-03-02 00:00:00

~' ._>. tOk that the forms of the HouseWonla rent admit of the introduction of the subject before Wednesday, and. probably not then, as the Army Estimates might in terfere with the discussion. As to the second yes don, he had distinctly said, that the Tax was not abandonea, because the Government felt it to be one which reached affluence in the hands of the miser, and which, to use the expression of one of bis consti tueats, made the rich, who preferred tolive like be gars, pay like gentlemen.--(Hear, hear, and a laugh). Sir GILBERT HEATHCOTE was satisfied that, if the war had continuedohe people would have paid the tax. When they fairly exercised their judg ment, they generally took a right view of the case, and at once judged, that when peace was attained, an establishment formed to meet a state of danger ought not to continue. Such was the opinion of the nation, and he hoped it wnuld.be successful. Lord PALMEItSTON protested against the in feri..nce, that because a certain expence had been called for to meet the exigencies of war, it followed . that this expence should at once cease on the arrival of peace. Mr. FORBES was persuaded that if returns were made of the amount paid by persons assessed for an income'under sesoo a-year, it would be found, that so NT from the Tax falling in a greater general pro eortion on the rich, it would be found to press much more heavily on the middling classes, who,' in his opinion. contributed the larger amount of the two. Sir EGERTON BRYDGES believed that the Property-'Vax was the most efficient one that could be raised ; and he apprehended the prevailing oppo ,sition to it arose from a want of properly considering the subject. It was the most effectual mode of rail. ing the funds—the most beneficial thing that could - hAppon to the country, for it would be followed by a general revival of public credit. He (Sir Egerton Brydges) in common with several of bis acquaint• ances, lamented, therefore, the unfortunate repos. session that existed against this Tax, which might be Improved by proper modification. He was not yet aware of the sentiments of his constituents, for he bad received no instructions from them ; but however painful it was for him to - attempt to stein the stream of public opinion, he could not in this instance forego his own judgment. Mr. BROUGHAM begged to inform the Hon. Baronet that the silence of his constituents would not be of long duration, for the good men of Maidstone were on the eve of a public meeting ; and unless they consisted of those acquaintances to whom the Hon. Baronet alluded, there could be no difficulty in anti cipating the opinion they, would pronounce. In that event, the Hon. Baronet, if he obeyed the voice of his constituents, must give his argument for the Tax, and his vote against it—(A breed) Sir E. BRYDGES explained. Mr. FINLAY said, that the produce of the toe on the mercontilointerest, who were now in many cases without property, amounted to a larger sum than that paid by the higher walks of the community. Mr. LUSHINGTON was of cliff: rent opinion, Mr. FORBES hoped, that if the measure passed, which he could not possibly expect, the half-pay 'of the Army and Navy, and of the pensions to the wi. dows and children of Officers, would be exempted from any part of the tax. Mr. CALVERT said, that the Hon. Baronet (Sir E. Bridges) admitted he had not conversed with his own constituents--and he certainly had not with any of his, fir they unanimously resisted the idca of such a measore. Mr. LUSHINGTON and Mr. FINLAY ex [Lint d. M: J. PITT presented a petition from the Ike toug:i at Malmesbtiry against this tax. Mr. GORDON hoped, that the allusion made to place, and pensicins in this petition would be atten ce I to. In the neighbourhood from which the peti -6°l was sent, so far from the ieliabitants being able to pay the tax, if levied, the last halt year had not yet. beea ili,charged. In one parish', assessed at the rate of COO a year, not one shilling bad been collected. (Hear.) It was, therefore, ludicrous to propose a continuance of such a measure. Sir THOMAS ACL,AND presented Petitions from Weodley and Harlord, in the county of Devon, 'against the property Tax, the War Malt Tax, and raying an Inquiry into the great increase of Pour s ates. • Mr. PHILLIPS said, it was now evident that Ministers would not • abandon the Tax. It was, therefore, imperative on the Public to use every opposition to its enactment. Mr. BA BINGTON made same observations on. the manner in which the poor laws contributed to the general distress of the country. He stated that th e , farnicr s unabletoemploy Cie samennmber of labourers as for iti,rly, they who were out of employ must, how. ever willing to work, be subsisted almost wholly by .the pron.' rites; and the farmers, in order to assign a reason for paying lower rents, endeavoured to sup port their labourers by low wages and high poors ' rates ; so that the industrious part cf the community were driven to dependance upon the overseer, and obliged to receive that as a boon, in the shape of pa lish relief, which they had a right to claim as the re ward of their labour. By these means, too, the land lord was a sufferer, inasmuch as his rent must be lowered in proportion to the rise of poor.' rates; and that feeling of regard and claim of sympathy, which ought to subsist between the farmer and his labourers, was turn. d into oppression on the one hand, and dis. gust on the other. He did not impute these evils en tirely to the property tax, but that measure had a share in increasing them; for when the farmer's ca pital was diminished by taxation, he could employ fewer labourers:, while he would endeavour to pay those whom be .did employ, as far as possible, by poore' rates, to which _all must coat: ibute, rather than by wages which he himself must afford ; and they who were unemployed must be supported wholly by the parish. Mr. BROUGHAM was highly satisfied at the clear statement which had been made by the Hon. Gentleman, insomuch as it agorded a complete an ` so er to that futile and base appeal which bad been • made to the poor agoinst the rich—that attempt to gain the support of the mob, by saying that the tax atiected only the rich and avaricious. After the state nit lit made by ihe HIM-. Gentleman, nothing could IN: more fouls Wain to say, Old a tax which affected 7:7 - . . . thirkh did nevecoally sett 14 pear; if (fie Were deprived of their capital s the poor must in pro• portion be detrived of their employment, and come quently of their means of subsistence: Mr. GORDON gave notice that he would, on Tuesday next, move for leave so brinit is a Bill to repeal that already passed for the erection of a New Post Office. - - -- 041 the motion of Mr.I43CIEHART the Fermin Stock Distress Bill was committed. The Report was then brought up, and ordered to be taken into further consideration on Wednesday next. T~ A The Cape Trade 811 went through a Committee. Report on Monday. The Report of the Foreign Packet Bill was post poned to Monday..—Adjonrned to Monday. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH S. 1816. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT Ivria.vg O'CLOCK' Reduced at 44—Cons. telo. al ii—hr sec.llll4 4 per Cent. 7 7f —S per Cot.3Bonds se. M. pr. Otos. 17ft pr.—De. psi. •-• Alb 1.• 4 16 . 2141.4 lIIMINIM. Last night the Cuasau.Lott of the Exontotraa ap peared in his place and informed the Ho•sa that Lord CAITLERRACM continued so much indisposed as not to be able to attend. In consequence of this, the further consideration of the Army Estimates was deferred till Monday. After this Mr. VANSITTART, quitted the House, which, contrary to custom, was left witbont a Minister during the evening. The rumour of the inteaded abandonment of the Income Tax proves. as we expected, quite unfounded. Mr. Lusurvorox informed the House that the Qui. ceLLoa of the ENCRIQUIRR considered the Tax as a wise one. that he was of the same opinion. and would support it. •-- - During the sitting of the House, numerous Peti. lions against this abominable Tax—this Tax fit only for slaves—woe presented by different Members; and we confidently expect that this will continue till the measure be disposed of in one wily or other. In the mean tinse, the different Counties are active in preparing Petitions expressive of the general abhor rence of this inquisitorial impost. A Requisition for a Meeting of the Freeholders of Kent has been signed and sent to the Sheriff. The Sheriff of Surrey ha s appointed that County Meeting to be held at Epsom on Tuesday ; and the Middlesex Meeting will be held on the same day at Hackney. The ignorance of some of the friends of Inquisi tion has an extent and folly wkjch we could not have believed could exist in England in the nineteenth cen tury. In some quarters they areeculating bills to set the poor apinst the rich—to inform the lower orders, that the intention of the Tax is to make the rich pay like gentlemen, and to free the poor from taxation. Do these persons wish the class to whose passions they address themselves to have disserta tions addressed to them tracing the operation of all Taxes, and making them perfectly to understand whence they are all cleaved, and who they are that actually produce the whole amount of them ? Be silent, ye men of Gotham, nor provoke a discus sion which, if condected in language suited to the ignorant, could produce nothing- but mischief. As to the middling ranks they know that the terms rib and poor are merely relative. However ignorant you may suppose them, they know well that the produc tive powers of the soil and capital of the country de pend entirely on the actual industry and labour be stowed upon them ; but we forbear, and we hope that those who mean to press the measure in spite of the pledge given by Ministers to the Nation, will also forbear ; for in vain do they attempt to deny that they stand pledged to discontinue the TeX.— The present CUANCII4.OII of the EXCHIQUIM has over and over again stated it as his deliberate opinion, that the Income Tax is essentially a war tax. and that it ought not to be continued in time of Peace, even daa an annual grant. He last year refused to impose it , for the a winding up of the oar expenditure," al though he contemplated the necessity of a “ large loan" for that purpose, He refused it, because he thought ‘, the variation of price: would render it, if longer continued, far more vexations and unequal in its pressure than at any former period." Now there is no war expenditure at present to wind up.— there is no great loan to be raised ; prices have fallen still lower than last year, and, consequently, the tax must be still more vexatious and unequal.. What possible inference is to be drawn from this statement, but that Mr. VANSITTART, for ;mons best known to himself, has thought fit to depart from all his former opinions on this subject ? But those opinions, repeatedly avowed in the course of many years, form, es we contend, a pledge given to the public. The public so understands them, and cannot understand them otherwise. Then the pledge is forfeited—the faith is broken—the ground of future confidence is destroyed. We ripen* and seriously lament this circumstance for, without the bast feeling of hostility to the Right Honour. able Gentleman, and with much good-will toward many .of the measures of foreign policy which be has Aspported, we are, above all, anxious that Par liament should stand well with the people...that the confiding gederosity of the English character should not be chilled by any appearance of a want of faith on the part of those whose candour and integrity ought to stand above reproach. We shall conclude ;with reminding Ministers of the earnest and eloquent • - • • • • -- on of . Mr. nom to the Time of Coe mas! his day—% They who, call upon you to belong wholly to the people, are those who wish you to re turn to your proper horne—.to the sphere of your duty—to the post of your honour—to the mansion. house of all genuine, serene, and solid satisfaction." A Mail from Hamburgh arrived th is morning.' The intelligence brought by k chiefly relates to the affairs of Russia and Poland, which latter kingdom may now be considered as part of the Russian Eat. pine. We select the following articles from the Hamburgh Papers: Fr. PETERSBUROH, FEBRUARY a. His Imperial Highness Prince Constantine is gone back to Warsaw. For this week past we bare bad a constant cold o ' of Iteiumenr. WARSAW. FEBRUARY It. Prince Constantine returned here on the Bth from St. Petetsbargh, and on the 10th inspected the Polish troops that have returned from France, which have been till now it-Gora t they have various uniforms because they belong to different regiments ; those 6t for service will be placed in the Polish regimcnts, and the others will be dismissed. It is said that the places of Governors of Provinces in Russian Poland will be filled by Poles who are in the Russian service. Count Staaislaus Polocki, Rus sian Adjutant• General. will be, it is said, Governor of Wolhynee. Aftre the thaw we have again 18• of cold. An assembly has Ism held at Cracow of the twenty-oil Communes of which that free city with its territory consists. A Committee has been appointed to draw up a Civil and Criminal Code, &c. FROM THE MAINE. FEBRUARY 17. I The differences between Austria and Bavaria are said to be fully settled. The Thalweg at the Inn will be the future frontier between the t--eo States— the indemnities to be given to Bavaria are not yet known. The Bavarian army, it is said, will be im mediately put upon peace establishment, and the greater part disbanded. . . . . , .. .. . ouvr.37.l4iiiiiiiiiiih ,.,„ ,: „,..lfa immiThri ..... wrifeithiffiega , - • 4.1.4 , 1 Mr. LuAlliiaTolsT chosen he had already Iva Oven a plitin answer. He would repeat, however, port ROS COCK, FEBRUARY 17. The following is the Answer returned by his I Highness Prince Blucher, to congratulations sent him in writing upon his birth-day (December 161 h) by the States of bleckieuberg, who were then assem bled here: " GINTLLIOI7.I/--4 have always felt pecul;ar pleasure In eon tributing, by all that PllOllOll74Ct has allowed me to perform -• • in the late eventful years to the welfare of Mecklenburg, roy beloved country. That my countrymen take the warmest interest in what concerns toe I hate received multi:Ad proofs. I find that you ►peak :it tea tumor of this in your honoured oeti sr of the iGth of December ; but. at the awe time, I cannot allow the little I have berii able to perform at be appreciated at too high• a sate, and honoured as I name feel myself, by the monotneots to be in my Sillifte tows of it.wooek, yet it properly below to puoari , y alone to forts a judgment of what has been i done. Accept, Gewl:men, the assurance of the profoundest raapect, with which I have honour to subscribe myself, Gratliinen, 44 Your oust faithful and obedient friend and servant, I 14 Babe s Feb. 11, Iblb. ihicsaa." . 1, Brussels Papers to the 29th arrived as our Paper was going to Press. They merely :state the arrival at Brussels Q 1 Generals If I.lLtsf, LAMARQUip and some other revolutionary worthies of France. The QUEEN and the Princesses CUARLOTTI of WALES, ILLIZAHLTH, And MARY, with their attend• ants, left the Pavilion at Brighton yesterday, for Windsor. Her Royal Highness Princess CHARLOTTE will return to CrAilbouri,l..o3ge.. The Prince rot Conoutto will leave the Pavilion for Weymouth, GinnCONICS' Lodge there being fined up this day for his reception. His Highness, it is said, will remain at Weymouth until the Patna REGENT come: to towa, sslieii he will take up his residence at thr Queen's Palace s aad the Princess CHARLOTTE at' Warwick House. Y::strtday, several of the Royal conks and livery servants left Town tor Weymouth, to attend on Prince LEOPOLD 01 SAXE C4)3411200. Count Hettns•aetto came in town nn Wednesday from Brighton. Yesterday he returned to Brighton to attend the Prince of SAIL Cosoulta, who, we un derstand, is slightly indisp )sed. Lord CAs-rit.EttsAcu has been confined through in disposition since his return from Brighton. This day the East Suffolk Regiment of Militia morched into Ipswich from Ireland, after an absence of 12 years. Yesterday being St. David's Day, the Marquis of WoucesTzu and a number of Vice• Presidents of the Welsh School, celebtated the Anniversary of their tutelary Saint with the usual benevolent attention to the poor. They went in procession to Church, and afterwards to Dinner, where a large subscription was made for the benefit of their School. •We lately stated that peace had been concluded between DEmstaliK and l'utrou. The fact has been officially announced in the following letter : London, Feb. 49, 1816. " fisa.—it Is with much satisfaction that I communicate to you, for the information of the Subscribers to LLotro's and ethers, that official Information has been received at this Consulate ' of the differences between his Majesty the King of Densaaas and the Pacha of TA *vett having been adjusted, and that the Danish Flag has bereeforth nothing to apprehend from that quarter, Denmark being new at peace with all the Barbary Powers. I am, Sir, &e. H. F. HORNEMAN. " His Danish Majesty's Consul- eoeraL" " M. J. BEIM ILT, Secretary to the Committee at I.torres.' s PROFERTY TAX-12 O'CLOCK UST TUESDAY NIGHT —it may no; be generally known ibat by a recent Act of Parliament, all persons relieved frtan this odious tax, have now the opportunity of investing a small sum (thus, as it were, saved from ;he fire,) in buying a Ticket or a Share, and secure a part of the Two Prizes of 25,000 Guineas, Twp of 5C20,000, or of the 4,300 other Prizes of £3,000, £l,OOO, ASO% Ste. which must all be drawn, either Next Wednesday. or the succeeding Lay of Drawing ; and as the Whrel of Fate will be opened very early on Wednesday Mowing, the Act authorizes the Lot tery Office Keepers to sell 'Pickets and Shares until 12 o'Clotk Tuesday Night. TRENCH PAPERS. • STAR OFFICE, TWo GIN This 1116ment the P.rrit Pipers of Moed a ,. I day, and Wednesday, being all that we re to owt bands. We can only give abor t a b ith . PARIS, FEBRUARY ts, 'Laurent Beateprd, bookseller in the N il has been arrested for publishing* libel, The infamous Mehie de la Touche 4 1 by the gens d'artnes who were sent to Intl and whoa) he resisted. Several persons bare been arrested fe e alarming reports. Great changes are about to be mid i h 4 l ecture of Police at Paris. Nineteen p er% been disnissed•witbin these few daps, Marshal Soult has stopped at Burm a . % seldorf. General Ali: passed through Dijon % to his way to a foreign country. We learn from Perigliaux. that a wah mi gicicie had received orders to quit the * via aLely. Instead a obeying thi s or d er voured to lead astray some men w;thoitii meat, and to excite thefts against the A s i i but his man ceuvres having been disco /ft & arrested and delivered up to the Tribft eleven of his accomplices. The Mositeur contains a circular from the of the Seals of France, to the civil Oran payments, enjoining them to treat the a uj e sojourning in France with the utmost hayi ti kindness. 114P44 INTELLIGENCL VALMOUTH, FEBRUARY at, Sailed his Majesty's schooner WHITING to Ranger packet, with mails for the !shad tude, Mutts, for Jamaica ; Prospect, for Madeira ; Star, Baown, lot Madeira* Indian, GARBUTT, for Boston ; Clifford, Virginia ; Medway, and Valiant, for Storter, No. 363, HARRISON, for the Cap Hope; Liberty, MaTnEws, for Bilboa; A tor, Prristattic, for Dominica ; Grace, Vic Plymouth.—Wind North, light breezes. SCILLY, FEBRUARY 27, Caine in his Majesty's frigate Wrest, Ca l Kw, and sailed again for the Mediterrann PORTSMOUTH, MARCH Arrived the Nestor transport, from Cork Ann transport, from the Downs. Sailed jesty's frigate MAOICHINNE, for Plymouth. the Flora, CLARIK. from Lynn for Legho Sailed the Pr.ividence. Gitecx, tor B bion, Buoy's, for Madras and Bengal; BROWN, for Batavia ; Gustav, 04e, foe leant; Et!ham„ Sr. BAR 3e, for St. Doil ventry, HORN, for S.. Luca; Lord 'Ram 1 1 sot; for St. Thomas ; aired, Coasts maica ; Prince, f r Liverpool ; Mari ander, Neptune, and Seringapatant trate Cork.—Wind S.E. DEAL, MARCH i. Sailed the ship Claudine, WEi.,rt, for I Came down from die River, end sailed. HawLETT, for 111114iCa. Remain his Ms GANIMILDII 4 and the H•miiurable Comp Cambridge, C,,ldstream, and Lady Casty St. Helena and China. In tie afternoon of Tuesday sennight, of the name of William Eaton, employes water, was assisting to get a barge thr ham Lock, on the River Medway, near unfortunately slipped into the water. A of several minutes, he was discovered stag high in the water, against the gates, by si and supported himself, whilst the water in a sheet over his head. A man, howlers to his assistance, and succeeded in gettini shore, entirely exhausted : the poor fella veyed to a neighbouring public house, I the honor of his late situation, and the eff ding so long in the water, though not mersed, he died in half an hour. DtnlT-taNt.—The Lent Oratorios commence this heatre with a selection from HA Nbeell Mss of licirreoirctes Mount of Olives, a Mbcelisnem fully selected, and the Grand Yank binfonts. 1 crowded. HINTING .—The fox hounds of R. S. Lloyd, Et dey, March the igth, at Lattinglord Stables, and nth, at Oft on-street at ten o'clock Hated on Monday at No Man's Land. Wednesday at &I Saturday at Luton Park, at half put ten. The I Hounds meetoa W. Monday ood at Boxted Hall, and o p Puoiusss.—A well-contested Boxing- match, I doe Purse, took place on Mooday last, on Ca Woodstock. between James Cas i o' Oxford, well gin's, and T. Clayton, of equal celebrity, of Green. After 38 rounds of most deterurned fgt Was woo by Clayton. Clayton was seconded b. I Morley; Coz, by Caner and Shekon. The amat don rank this as one of the best country n;hts for some pears; tt lasted for 47 minutes, at hall-n ltssotritUT DZITOILS . OOOIT.--OrfICCII 011 Mr. &Ilan RONNINGTON informed the Court, mer occasion, in the case of Admiral Watkint a determination to give Use Admiral liberation, his giving to his Creditors one half of his balf-pir was to be given after his havingsubmltted the ten of the Admiralty four their consideration. Ike niSod his consent in writing, but on submitting tl Lords of the Adaiiraity, their Lordships did not *twee justified in ipp:ying the funds granted to as the navy for put sitreices to any particular pupa as tke balf-pay may be continued or discontinued the Crown. The Admiral bad, however, clung ardor to one more agreeable to the necessity of tit ins an order upon the proper °Seer to pay such at hat i-pay as mien be suggested and agreed upon I be Learned Serjeant then stated, that under such he should leel it his duty to discharge the Admiral Fifteen other Insolvents were yesterday discharge DIED. At Dover, on the 28th ult. after a few days 0 Sarah-Ano, the amiable wife of Lieutenant-Color tile kONDON s Printed by LEVU. Kut . , Pad publibited there, ant . l at tlx Star Office, Ti