Star. — London, England, 1816-02-14 00:00:00

PPIP"'" -- • - , Mill& 'the eitatiy mots is t , die flint of England _a sum o 11420,000 r i aw n for x.setvfce wpiCh ' any private banker roil,: glad to perform for, the film of 05,000 a, tr. The service was simple and limited in odious unjust and disgracefulit that such lie " • sum should be • paid for . Unle tr o w of rigid economy was adopted, it would bupossible to keep our faith with the ar •1786 the B ink O rec tors required no More M getouts j 6O OO a.year for the char g es of Manage. it. They then thought that the sum of £ i 3G l3 th alion was a sufficient compensation for manage ! pr. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Pitt allowed them 0 50 pet million. At a future period, 1797, the on ce Committee suggested that the charges of krugement ought to be lessened. The number of 'irks hid been increased to 197, and all each 'id, 1170 a year, with the expenses for building, lemon ut 1138,000 was fully sufficient for the whole m ed ex pense . The increased profits of the Bank, a, were considerably greater—the present The Bank on ; of the cha r g e Was Jertspoo. made an increased charge for every new Loan. er Valflo.llS other statements, the Hon. Member e luded with moving— , nee a Select Committee be appointed to Inquire into the entered Into between the Public and the Bank of and to consider the advantages now derived by the w ith a view to such arrangements as rnight be conducive tielo blie service, and to report their opinion thereon to tie fa/CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, • he felt it impossible to agree with the motion, as • unnecessary and dangerous ; it was uoneces ,because 'the proceedings' which already existed' the Government and the Bank precluded nee arrangement. It was his intention, in a.few to lay some propositions respecting the Bank the H o use, and s therefore, he should be brief what he should now say. But it never could be in thet ernplatiou of the House. or of any man, that !public should participate in the prifsts of the i—profits that merely arose out of their private as, and he never could agree to any such • te -- le yr, " 4 + a eda ii keit - Xll iss a t doi et 1 ly Oib doe InW to :I ,ank .. r it 1 heti J wets I 411 LTC I 'lir! or, • :; X;. ) . t .r,1 tio AO I! O*J in 0! sort• ~J .... - a 1 - I & ail' Id wl, • 44171 / litre Mr. GRENFELL declared it never was his ~tst' ir to proposeany participation in. the profits tithe Bank on the part ot the public ; but if this was o b ete me a permanent system, it would be fit that oh a participanon should take place hereal ter. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mi ssed; and contended, that no possible good could Wig / KIM die appointment of a Committee. At ano lber r ood he would go more fully into AIL the parti als:solo at present he thought the adoption of a Camino *mold not answer any one good purpose, st a would, in many instances, be dangerous. Mr. BANKES supported the motion. M. BARING said, that the Honourable Member *hemmed the cpiestion teemed to have taken a view e l f d the h efts of the Bank, and even those he keimatediedi greater than they really were, witti est . locoosideration the advantages which d e • ved from it. He then enumerated of loans and other accommoda rimßank had granted to the country 3 .. E s It was also to be recollected dlitillf *NNW part of the silver currency of the soi r 4inimmot at the expense of the Bask. It lid Ilkieriee during the Peninsular war, afforded littnutiewunodation to the Government by Loge. ispdinelgold coin, and had given guineas at 21s. , eves It times Olen the price of bullion was excee deifylftgb.' He thought the. measures which the Member had suggested ieere severe to the Bank, for though the balances in their at present were considerable, the:time was or ., . when they would be much on the decline. He ore felt it his duty to oppose the Committee. Mr. TIERNEY declared he. had never heard a • dear and candid explanation of so complicated subject thin had been given by the -Honourable : tithe qu,estirm. Oa the general principle of .my, he would cor. , end that the Committee was ' ... , for if any thing could be saved,• it was so ~ saved to the Public, and therefore a matter of .Ne necessity to inquire into. " II," continued Tierney, a a man were to make a steam engine, to thatge only for his labour and a profit on his trials, it would trot be considered unreasonable ; if, at the same time, he Were only to charge his labour and materials,bui for the savids which be made in herses,"acc: few would thin!: it a ~ 'able speculation Jai employ hirn.—(//esr, hear). Bank had laboured for the country, but it was •ft that atcaunt they should receive a reward disproportiOned to the services they had ten ed."i He defoided the Honourable Mover from! thsrge ti wishing to make the country a partici:, • in the profits of the Batik, and concluded by ,ing for the motion. . tord'CASTLEREAGH contended against the • ty• of the Committee, and observed, that the of the Bank had been too much overcharged. Ilk PONSONBY replied to Lord Castlereagh, Itapperted the motion. • Mr. MARRYAT defended the necessity of gm' g •. a Committee. ' Mr. MANNING opposed it. ' Mr. PRENFELL replied; after which the Hotim ided, then there appeared for the Motion 44-...1 aim it 81 7 -Majority $7. ' • On entering the Gallery, we found Mr. Tunic= his legs, moving, that the I - louse should be called] .• 00 this day fortnight, in order to have an Oiii•l 01 1 the Army Estimates and the Property Ti's-1 ' is sundae, after a short conversation between .Lord ntettuon„ Mr. POYSONZY. and the CIJA%CALLOR Excitrousat, was changed to a C4l of the the • u se tor Monday week, w hi c h was agreed to. The other Orders at the Day were then disp osed 'ed the House adjourned at HAI.r-PAST Twetve. We give from the official papers laid upon the of the House, the , Cll ANC61.40/1 of the Ex. olinutit's statement of the various Taxes, with their 4 "Pantive produce in 181 a. and 1815: . roms.-1 . 0 the 6th of January, !US, was it 10•4670000 is thr6th January, 1816 . . 1 1 4:1111/2600 15,t45,000 28,e62,000 Eames last year To the Itb of January, iti S 1814 Una last pas . - Nr W. iiessfy;•.i'•ii • .; • 1444;4141 . • - • - • . ma sxio. • • Etc , * bittair • se7poo POSTOFFICLe;:ro January, 1811 181. I 440 000, ItIOSI lilt yea, - • ASSJUISED •TAIUUL. , -To Jimmy, isls leld Bs,ooo • 0,114,000 4,377,a4 .• I, Deltdency last year • 1.837.0 00 This deficiency is attributed not to any actual falling . off in the produce of these Tates, but to the delay in plating the payments. PROPERTY Tlalc.—.To January, 18IS Idle • 14,260043 1 4 082,000 111.146...emeix70 1 17,000 Iscess last year LAND TAX.—To January, let 1816 1,079,00 0 1,1011,000 Excess last year • • MISCELLANEOUS TAXES. Elena last year - 906,000 The gross excess in the revenue was as follow Total produce to January 5,191 S 65,430,000 to Amway 5,1916 • 66,443,000 SI PO . Total eleds last *ear - 1,013,000 Out of the grants voted list year, the unfbnded debt has beep reduced cwenty.one,millions in addition to twentroae millions of previ ns reduction, making tn. &miller a reduction in our unfunded dcht of 42mil lions, The tend Unfunded Debt was, on Stb lan. IRIS fel; 5.5 (MOO 11116 4 7,7Q0,000 Less IA the last year • EXPORTS. MS 46,000 For tbru starlets, ending 16th, Ogtuber, 181 4 IBIS $7,) 6,000 4144115000 .kzreas last year • CO'l* lON EXPORTS. For three quarters, eniling October 1814 . 1815 • 13,169,000 13,367 IWO Excess last year 4,1911,000 LTNENS...IBI4 1413 • . • $ * • I,)GO,OG:) 3,340,0 w Excess last year 2 40,00 it WOOLLENS.-1 Si 4 Isls 6,000 001* • 6,074,000 Steen Ire year g• 07 4 ,000 THE EVdNING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1816. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS D Al' 7 wEtsa O'CLOCK Retina-4 611}—Cous. ma. sqi—t4 acc. 6et 1 per Cane 760-5 per Ctrl. li9kl-I.;aadi Ss. ,56. pr. Own. 163 pr.—Do. March, 17it-4ach. Bills 16. dia. Sr. pr. • Lea night the Petitions of the Common Council and Livery of London, ag dhst etc Pra e tor ty Tax being continued in a time of Peece, were presented to the House of Commons; 'and we hope they will be followed by Petitions from every District and every Corporate Body in the Kingdom. It is impossible tia on any arguments not subversive of that good fat which the Gserernment owes to the people. to vindle cote sects measure, Let it be granted. even that the enormous Peat Establishment that has been pro.' posed is really necessary in our present eircum stances. and we must stiil content that Lord SIDMOUTSI'S view of this Tar, in 1802, is correct—" Am. it has Over been considered its no other light than Alit of a !ear Tax, IVAPFLICAALA TO A TOM OF PAACILem• Nor is Lord . Siostouvit singular in his view of It : there is not a man in tha House of Commons who 'has riot either as a supporter or as an opposer of Mi bisters, expressed in one way or other the same sen iimenf--Statesmen ,should be cautious how they teach the people to consider professions and promises as mere lures to enable them to carry t particular measure in a time of exigency, Let them once un dermine the confidence which the people place in their honesty--in the rectitude of their views, and these will remain but few barriers for the safety (4 the public edifice, What brought on the French Re volution ), The confidence of Minis:ers in their own power; their contempt for public feeling ; their foolish idea that the mass of the people were of no other use but to be pressed I like a spunge, to make them give out whatever they might be disposed to wring from them —witiout even .condescending to make the prescription palatable to the patient. The ezizencies of the State must be provided for. The country bas sh own its fortitude and loyahy in submitting, far a long series of years, to taxes aid privations unexampled io our history; and willoseill exert its fortitude to yield what the circumstances of the State may require—if Ministers do not break faith . with the people by pressing this measure. Letshe sum that is wanted front the luconte Tax be raised by 'Loan, and. pry its interest from the Sink jog Fund, as has been more than mice recom mended, and :the people will bear their grievances with patience, till time and peace shall remove them ; but let not Ministers, after WA hate come through such a storm, endanger the safety of the vessel by blasting the confidence of the crew. •If they do they may have eause COI a long, but unavailing, repentance. Frince LeoyoLD of Saxe Cobourgb, who re about: to receive the hand of the Princess Cemat-orra WAxes, hob the rank of Captain only in the Auiliri4ll - = He is nevertheless a L'eutenent 15:fier.1 the service of Russia, and served is the two last cam% pa*ns of the Russian Army with' great distinction. Our Military Readers will reioice to learn that: General Baron A LTAN has completely recoverid frpm the effects villieneefre Wounds which he received at the. battle of Watrrloo. .He hit Brussels in jood health and spirits on she &I inst. fOrConde and its en virons, where be will oksitaied .ibis coutinseet. . ' titittloEt PArtiti. titsittceiiiert Ow Paris Papal Of glittliLT and Sunday; being all those note due. We ttisioin the most important of their contents. In the French Houses of R,epresentatiiesnothing of note has ocL cstrred ~: .. PAR FEBRUARY io. A Morning Paper states. that the departmental le gions abtount already to fifty thousand men tom- pletely arniei and equipped, . The Captain General Blake is now in high favour at the Cou'rt of Spain. Marshal Davoust was at Donnieres in the depart ment of bn the 31st of January. He retires, it is though; to Loilviers. 'fbe department of the Doubs were required to furnish but ninety men for the Royal Guard, when 107 voluntarily presented themselves, M. Dupin is• Counsel for the three English OfEcers detained at La Force. • Above two hundred persons have been discharged from the department of the Ministry of War. The Duke del fafanta.lo is the only Spanish 14i nikter that has retaihed his situation; all the others have been displace:4. Gencral Ballasteros kas been rsealled to active service. The Archduchess Maria Louisa is expected ill Lwalr. She does not go to Parma as was revrted. The other Archduchesses intend res;dingot Florence for a short time. Prince Wreck is now at Munich. The King. took his usual airing Testa - day. . Before his Majesty 1 ft the of the Louvre, On Monday last, he tailed frr some wine, saying to the Duke Bt:ltune.6 Marshal, I shall not retire without having drank to the health .of my faithful subjects." Aud when the Officer who served his Majesty stepped when the glass wa,s but halt filled,i Pour on, pour pn," said the Piing—`• till it up I shall not driuk the health of my brave gui:rd and national guard in half a glass," The acclainatiout were immediately redoubled, A dinner will be given on Monday next similar to . the last by the:officers of the ria:.:oaal guard to those of the royal guard. • At Ghent thitty.five• shopkeepers were punished, ork the `27th ultjmo, for io ids during the hours of divine service. • The pi isste examinatiors of the prisoners detainOd att l'A.hhAye still continue. it is asserted by , a contemporary— , s that tro Ka. dirrs of the Royaj Guard were accosted on the Bou levards by two persons genteelly dressed, Wii(J Ori::Ted them money to cry Vive rgulpereur e they imme diately arrested the two persons and took them to the Police." We know vary well that one excellent and loyal spirit actuates . the whole of that distinguished' body of men, and'we condemn as impplitic any 4di. .let who trump ors ricliCultlns- story like the above atetely to finish with—ie This is a fresh prdof of the exce:cnt spirit which anima:es the Royal Guard." 4o one ever doubted their zeal and loyalty, and we think other more respectable methods might bo re sorted to, it daily compliments must be paid' them. Marshal Macdonald is expected in i'aris to-morrew. The Duke de Lurembourg has been named French Ambassador to the Court of Brazil. M. Vernegues has been appoinied resident Minister at Florence. Scveral inhabitants of Conde have arrived at Paris to give evidence on the trial of General Bormairt Ex-Comma:Wain ot Conde, accusud of shooting Co. nonce Gordon, sent as a :fag of truce by the Icing. The Generals Drown, Lehtvre Desncuettes, and &rouchy, who are included in the first list of the OrOonnance of the 2.11 b July, are cited to appear on the tith inst..beforeth , e tribunal which is to try them. These criminals being absent and coi,tumacious, the citation to General Grouchy has been ached to his door by an officer of justice.. 'ln consequence of a Conveatino concluded 'at NIL & the Allied troops which remain in France will not. receive, after the Ist of Fehiuny, any rations Gf victuals in kind, under any pregeat whatever. The rations will in future be replaced by an indemnity, the amount of which en mute than be paid every , month by the Royal Treasury, and by the care of the, Generals commanding in chief, Fill be divideil l among the Qfficers under their orders, who will air in future, by means of this indemnith be able to tub. sist themselves. Measures of vigilance and police have been ,adopted in Prussia, with respect to those exiled from France, who are goiug to be. sent into Silesia. From Naples, on the 19th of January, we learn,' that the Prince of liesse Phillipstal, known fur his excellent defence of Gaeta, is at the point of death ; 'he has been seized with a fever, which rester all re medies, and he is in almost.conitant convulsions. NISMES. JANU.AP:Y SI. The Prefect of the department of the Gard is anxi ous to make known a letter which he has received train his Royal Highness the Duke of Angoulenae. This august Prince, not content with, all the good which his tutelary presence has p►oduced in our dis trict during his too short stay, has finished with an act which artist infalliblystifie all the germs of discord. a PAM. JANUARY 24. 44 M. Prefect of the Card. a Kn ow ing trot the 'Catholics of the City of Nismes wish to hare their churclies occupied by the i Protestants, but that the intentioes of theformer can- Apt be fulfilled Until tbey enter Liao utt arremensent, 'with the bidee for the [Alkalise of Alessi EbtlfAlett which would compel the Protestants to build one t 1 promise, in the rent of these ayrangernents being to col:tribute the sum of fifteen thousand francs toWalds the purchase of the chutches from the Ca tholics. If therefori the Protestants and Catholics decide oh this, I beg you to inform me, that I may immeeiately pay the 'money. I desire th:tt the inhabitants may see in this dis. position on my part how aniinus I am, to far as dc. pends upon me, to do every thin which can contri bute to the maintenance of that perfect lizrmony which ought to exist among all the subjects of the Ding.—Your affectionate . 1-01.11 i ANTOINE." ArAr4L lATELLIGENCL DFAL, FEBRUARY 131 Arrived the lia;:betts Anker, Pluma, from St. Übe's, tram Norway, and sailed. Came down from the River and sailed the New Galen, Siizaetntme, tor Anaerir.a ; Fame, S:.!ipt, for Jamaica. FAI.MOU'fIf, FEBRUARY IL Art ivfd revel .resters. Sailed the Marlborough packet, with for Liston's ; (Ineensbury packet, with Mails, for the Brazils; Active, flosmu, f o r London; Mantura, DENNts, for Bristol; add Nancy, BEMAN, for Plymouth.—Wind N. E. NAVAL APPOIN I'MEN The Hon. Cretain A7lpt:r, and Lteutdiutts ".Dvies an.rW, Lloyd, ere appointed to the Severn. Veatenanie.Wm. Chat Atkinsen, John Hill, aa4 J. A. Croke, to the Falcon, for rank. lA.:act:ants Henry VB.: r.nd Eclorari Purcell, to the gluon. Mr. Haydow, to be Fur.ier o the Seven. The Merril), Winotromn, from Boann to New, founaland, is wrelik:d Langley Toll s two rho crew drowned. The Commerce. BANFIELLS from Falmonth to Newltiondl.!nd, is trKally lost, near St. John':—five of the crew drowned. The Hercules, Dukcms, from Jamaica to the 01. lu.smas and Chatleston,is totally lost at:Charleston. Ali unfortunate. accident happened at midnight, betweeu the 4th and ,Ith inst. at the barracks of Va. lenciennes. Panel the barracks gave way, and out of twenty men of the •itg)isli train of artilkry, who occupied t h e apartment, seven were killed and -five *Waded; Five horses were also crushed to death, A fine Regiment of glighsh Cavalry is quartered et IYupkirk, and the inhabitaots speak highly of their eober and o rderly , conduct, I3y the hut *caplets from Buenos Ayres, it appears that Admiral Bums, with the squadron nutter his command, had not been heard of since he let: the River Plate some months ago. Just before he s:tiLld he was desired by the Government to come to 13. , en0c Ayres. but he refused, RS there was a quarrel exist- ing Letween him and the principal Members.. He oiled, as it was beii;:ved, for the Pacific Ocean, to look after Spinish pr;xes, but whether on his own or - Ouvernment's aczount, is w:is difficult to say. According to one of the numerous accounts ;T. spectirg BOVAPARTE :Ind his suite, it 'appear! :hat Ma. dame Bearnamo. sick of the adventure, Tiauels with _her husband for bcicg suclia tool as to stay at :it. H.". lens, and wishes to return home. All ponanawrtr's rrenelt cooks and servants toutiniid, and said th e y were prisoners of war as well as himself, and would nut obey him. Admiral Comicax, however, sent the boatswain, with a ca:o'-uiter•tails, and won brought them to ther senses. The present severe frost has not been exceeded in intecsiq, since that of the winter of 1794, when the Fierch crossed the ice, and occupied Holland.— r At Hackney, Middlesex, the cold first became intense on the masoning of the 7th inst. In the night An , ther mometer (Fahrenheit) stoixl at 10°.. On the Bth it scarcely ruse above this degree all day, and at mid alight wa;S°. tAt three reclock in the morning of the SO, 5°,.:tn4 at sunset 4°. In some pare of the pa. rids vt klackriey it was 2rdegrees 10wer. 7 ,./kt W 'l. I , Hirr,,tow i tlAou c three, the Mule moiling. it was 1 ;°. The sari night it was about 21°, at Claw!). D. the lush it rose sever 4 deem, and the groin:pi" cold of winter retatned. EDItqUII.G fi t Fes. B.—.. The vicissitudes of thaw and fiat have alternately succeeded each otherevee shire t h e mouth of blovarnber. Monday the wing *hilted apto the South-east, and on Tuesday it blew a viedvot st o r m,. with snow showers. The wind has since Oa. ted, and it is now a most severe frost. The therms,. meter last night was at 19°..—There is .at present in Torphichen'S garden, at Calder House, a nee taritw tree in blossom on the open wall, a very fingu lar circumstance at this season of the year. .GLasoow, renew= ...We have again xll the rigour of winter: The thermometer, this %outing, was considerably lower than it has been this season. At semi o'clock it stood at 9 degrees Fahr....at 40 minutes past seven, it had risen to 14 degrees—at eight o'clock, it had fallen to 12 degrees-=at half. past nine, it stood at 18 degrees-rand, et eleven, .at 2$ degrees. Out of town, it most phibahly weold be three or four degrees lower. We know, that in fact, on /he Stirling road, at Fight o'clock, it stood at eight degrees. IlEcsso, Feettuaav Cr.-The weather here, for some d a ys has been very severe and storniy. The thermometer, i' this morning,, at eight o'clock, seas s o low as 22 clegrtes , yens:, res. cold daring ThOrulay night , exceeded any thing known for many years S..veral thermometers in different parts of this city, .hetKeec seven and eight o'cleck yesterday morning, being so low as 0. WINCOWER I thermometer, in a North aspect, stood yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, a the almost unprecedented low degrees)/ J 2. The snow in the geigbbouthood of Beth so much accumulated during Tuesday And Wedtketder, b 4 be mail arrived several bouts later that usual at cflel tenham and Gloucester, and it was to touch impsds4 nearblorthleach as tp beobbged tequittberegtdarroad , CAsTnitiuux• Yu. 18. 4 —The frost was Visintalo in this City on the morning of Satordaylast,ahat tM River . Stour was frosep over between Ling's litidgs and the Abbot's Mill. The thertgoineterot eight in the morning of the satne tiny, had sank to 1). Aeries above 0, being 21 degrees below the freezing pow. • Coco E,pcnolop, 14.-seNollosiness was does to-day Opos our market, in coapeguenee of the stop. ,page of the navigation eskth k eilyer, =dodoes a* nse spinally as last wapk.