Star. — London, England, 1816-12-17 00:00:00

---~-- . , THE EVENING STAR. 'I.OI4bON. TUESDAY, DECti4BER. 17, 1816. FACE OF tiTOCKi THIS OArY AVIWEI.VE freLOCN 11 02. *—Cone. mo. sbot—Com. for ops. 63“ A per Cent. per Cent. Navy shut Eadietpser Bond►l Si. I pra On. Saturday we laid before our Readers some re marks on the present state of thenation, introductory to some suggestions Witch we mean from time to time to offer for examination, with a view to the rttahtment of some relief to the distresses of the comitty, not. in the shape of mere temporary pallia• tives, but commensurate to the extent of the present evil, and calculated to restore perfect health, sound ness,. Ind vigour to our whole system. We reminded the Public of the propriety of contrasting our pre sent circumstances, distressing as they are, with the condition in which we should have found our selves, had our enemy been permitted, without re sistance, to mature and execute the plans he had formed against our very existence as an ineepen dent, a free, and a great people. Our efforts have been crowned with success. " Away with unavail ing regrets at the expense that our deliverance has cost us.;" but let every one, in his station, exert him -14 to repair the injuries occasioned by the struggle, to property of every description, whether agricultural or commercial, and to the national resources generally. We have also reminded our Readers, that men of all descriptions—the Ministers themselves—intelligent men in and out of Parliament, had concurred in stating, that frugality was rendered indispeetsible: that is, the taxes must be reduced as speedily and ex tensively as possible. But, are they not virtually reduced already ? have they not ceased already to produce the sum expected to come from them ? If so, the fact speaks a volume, and spews that, the people having ceased to be able to pay the revenue dentaaded. A reduction of taxes, far beyond any thing 'that can be effected by lopping off a few salaries, is indispensible to the restoration of national prosperity. 0 ie thing is certain, Ministers can expend no more than they can levy. Will it be said- 44 They can borrow !" What !in a time of peace ! What*Mi nister would venture to increase the load of our debt by borrowing money to pay the interest of what we have already contracted ? We have nosuch profligate men. If we had, what. Parliament would suffer it ? It would be folly to shot our eyes to the fact. The revenue cannot meet the demands which come against it. Who is to mar ? The placeman and pensioner or the National Creditor?—Nothing can be more equitable than that the enormous salaries of placemen should be reduced in a time of public calamity as well as the incomes of landlords, merchants and ma nufacturers —as well as the more moderate wages of the artisan and tI4 labouvor, till, by a return o f more affluence, the nation can again afford to be liberal to its public. servants. Every useless place ought to be, abolished— and as many as fouible of our soldiers should be turned over to employments which may add something to the common stock. But where is employment to be found for fresh 'bands, when so many are now out of work ? The question is foolish. The community could maintain these mew at less expense in the shape of mechanics and labourers, than hi the shape of soldiers;. and though there might not, for a time, be & demand for their whole labour, they would, nevertheless, contri bete something to the general income, by even the partial employment which they might obtain.—But why are so many out of employment at this time ? To follow out this question would lead us from our present object. Suffice it to remark, that whenever Taxes press too heavily upon a community, want of employment becomes one of the necessary conse quences ; for the rewards of industry—the profits of the different classes, whicfr shield became capital, and, furnish the means to pay wages to workmen and labourers, and to buy superfluities, are not only wrung from the people before they are well earned, but even a portion of the capital. already acquired;' for people never willingly descend in the scale of their living.—But to return — Along with retrenchment what else can be effected for the relief of the people ? Abolish, for a time at least, as we have often recommended, the operation of the Sinking Food,:and take off At mice a sum of taxes equal to its annual amount. This measure will go far to enable the natio° to retrieve itself. By leav hog in the bands of the people' some portion of what i s now drawn froill them, to pay interest on debt which has been bought trip—thatis, whkl has already bees paid II the radney. so left will become produc tive instantly. Who can calculate the w ee * which' would awne from an addition of one image* iseset to the Agricultural and Commercial capital of the el untry ? Or rather, who can properly appreciate t h e sum of the ea that is - inflicted upon the . com. nullity by abstracting, marcaseeriiy, is a time of pa. culiar distress, from the earning. of the people, so en ormous a sum as a million a notiltib, 'foe a Wes* • Abets useless purpose! But such a measure would depress die pidais'fanda We say no, but the contrary ; tor the less mosey is drawn from the people the sooner they obtain a sat plus ; and the more that this is encouraged the greater will, be the number of people who will be necessitated to seek for some secure means of laying out their v apory at interest. Ter ergilemet - sebe kr it be 4- lowed, however, that each a steam! woad have the immediate effect to depress the public- flah#l. What then t Why should this species of firoperty be arti ficially bolstered up at the expense of evade *the species of property in the kingdom. It ought • like every other kind, to be suffered to find its level. To do otherwise is to be guilty of an act of flagrant in justice to the rest of the community—and we leave it to casuists and sophists to prave i that what is ra• dically unjust can be truly termed politic. Having more than once expressed our decided opi nion on the impolicy of continuing to le:iy so enor mous a sum of taxes as are absorbed by tbr Sinking Fund system, we shall not enlarge at present on the subject ; but content ourselves with• pressing its sup pression on the attention of all sound economists, as Ane of the best calculated means, from the magnitude of its effects, speedily to restore that degree of energy to our Agslculture and Manufactures, which alone can prodece an adequate demand. for labour, and give eahployinent to our numerous artisans and la bourers. Let taxes thee be taken off to the whole amount of the produce of the Sinking Fund. Your labourers and mechanics will in that case become the consu. mers of those articles from which revenue is drawn, instead of living, as many for a time have been com pelled to do, on the bounty of others—at the expense of their own morals, accompanied too with the de struction of the habits of industry. There is yet one other great nstasure worthy of much consideration' which ought 4o be investigated coolly and dispassionately, but our limits d 3 not allow us to enter on it to-day. . . Our Readers are aware that the French Govern ment has been attempting to negotiate a Loan in this country. The negociation has provedfruitless. Nine millions sterling were wanted—they could not be ob tained. One million would then have been taken, but in this also the agent has failed in his object. Were only one farthing wanted, to be repaid by ont guinea, at the end of one year, we would mark down the individual who would furnish it for such a pur pose as being any thing but a patriot. Too much of our national wealth has already gone to other coun tries. It is high time that both the nation and indi viduals should practically demonstrate their tzonvic tion that avoiding the waste of property, fairly se- quired, is one at the Aunt guards against national' and individual distress. As a caution to such fools as may be liable to be tempted by the offer of high interest, we shall state to them a fact, of which some of them may be ignorant During the reigns of Louts the Fifteenth and Sisteenth, various sums of money were advanced by individuals in this Country, in the pur chase of Realer Viarret, or Life Annuities, secured by the French Government. These public debts were reduced by the reigning Powers after the Re volution,to a third, which third was again reduce& by i ponavanvz to a third, so that an original Redo Vivre of a 1,200, became finally reduced to £133.65. 81 By the Treaty of Paris our public demand of some millions was given up, on condition that the British individuals should receive their debts —and accordingly Commissioners were appointed on both sides to examine and to liquidate them ; and our Readers will easily conceive the astonishment of the British Commissioners, when they found the Botqusou Courtiers prepared only to take up the claims at the reduced rate, because they had so found them in the public documents. A long correspon dence took placwo ending at last in a spirited remon strance, 'which was delivered in by the Duke of WarAntoron, just at the period of the re-appearance of NAPOLEON on the coast, when, of course, bell, book, and candle, were thrown aside, and the Noble Duke called away by engagements of a different nature. This mistake has been now rectified in the late Treaty, and the Commissioners are again at work; but we hear of repeated complaints of delays and difficul ties; and it is hardly possible to say when the liqui dation will be completed. A most important communication was received this morning •by letters from Rotterdam of the Bth instant. They state that the Dutch Government have finally determined that all stns of Grain may be exported duty free. The Consequence wag, : that all the best sons of Wbeat . were iminediately bought , up at an advanced price; but the probable quantity from Rotterdam, for einartation, would not exceed I.lo® lasts. - The importations of *hese into. this country, 'we' art; happy to say, are likely to be very great. Our teeters from Nor •York, Baltimore, and other ports of America, smote. thee several vessels laden with noir have sailed from thence, and may be hourly expected to arrive in some of the ports. Yesterday a Cabinet Council met at the Foreign Ofisee, according to summons, which Sat upwards of hoar hours, from one o'clock till past five. • Her ble.rarrY, accompanied by the Princess Est`! ZAPS= and the Dowager Countess of MELVILLI. lied followed by several other carriages in retinae, left Brighton yeatardity morning at nine o'clock, to m onk 10 Windsor. Her MAJESTY was led from the , greed eatrance-ball, and banded to her carriage by the Duke of CLARNSICfs The Duke of Mamma. Lieutenant General Sir B. BLOOMPIaLD, and the' neater part of the company, were in attendance.— The Slit Infantry saluted as her frlAiurrY passed,' and the lath Hussars formed the escort. The Quint., and one or more of the Ppistounas,: ,the Princess Cnataunte, and the Prince of taxi Ca ammo, ass all expected to return early in Saaoary. . . FRENCH PAPERS. ~This morning we received she Paris Papers of Fri. da'y and Saturday. They do mit present us "Pith intelligence of much interest. The crimes of murder, robbery, and suiside, seem to become more frequent every day. The private Lessen continue to be more interesting. We have given one of considerable im portance in another column. PARIS, DECEMBER IS. We learn front Perpignan that the dislocation of the Spanish army, and its dispersion through the various provinces of the Kingdom. terminated at the beginning of this month. Catalonia, as one of the richest provinces, has received a larger contingent than the other Provinces, although it is little propor tioned to its extent, and the number of the strong places in this part of Spain. EDSIUND BoNAVENTCRE CmCnutts, born at Arcis• cur-Aube, formerly Deputy to the National Conven tion, banished from France as one of the Regicides, died at Brussels on the 6411 of December, aged 63. It was he who made the famous Report on the Pa pers found in the house of Robespierre. and it was in the house of Courtirs that the testament of the Queen was found, at the commencement of the pre , senryear. COURIER EXTRAIIIRDINARY OF SATI:nnaY MORNING. A Royal Ordinance has been published to extend the exemption from tonnage duties to foreign vessels entering" all the Ports of France to take on board cargoes of salt. By the former Ordinance, such ves sels only as entered the Ports of the Mediterranean, were exempted. Yesterday several corps of troops ex-cutcd ma , nceovres in the Plains of Grenelle ; the Princes were present. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. !SITTING OF THE 12rn OF DECL,IBER. The Chamber opened at a quarter past one. The Order of the Day called for the communica tion of the Ministers, and the Report of the Com mission of Petitions. Count Coavrrro, Minister of Finance, and Baron Durant; Councillor of State, were introduced. Count Convert%) ascended the Tribune, and spoke as follows:- 44 Gentlemen, the establishment of im posts ought, according to our constitutional law, to be concluded at the end of the year for which they were voted. They cannot be extended further with out an express law permitting it. We' re approach ing to the year 1817: it is net probable in the short space which will intervene, that the vote for the tax can go through the various necessary forms to render it executive. To prevent delay, the King re quests that the Government be authorized by you to collect provisionally the four first twelfths of the di rect taxes for the next year, after the notes of the present year. His Majesty is of opinion that this is necessary—first, in waiting the conclusion of the dis cussions of the Chamber upon the law of finance ; 2d, to give time to prepare, conformably to this law, the arrangement and completion of the notes. The indirect contributions hiving been only voted for 1816, it is equally necessary toinate the legal col lection which you shall grant for 1817. These dis positions, Gentlemen, are the objects of the law whtch the King has ordered us to present to you. The Go vernment is in want of this law; to obtain in this in terval the legal amount,ol public receipt." • The following is the Project of the Law : “ We. Lours; eke. • 4 We ordain, 6r.0. that the Prrject of Law, the tenor of ethic!, we have ordered to be presented by the Minister of Finance, and Baron Dudon, our Counolive of State, that we charge to detal the motives and sutport Its discussion. " An. 1. For the present, and during the delay of the discus sion of-the Budget of 1817., the four firat-12ths of the Land-1 az and Personal Tax shall be collected on the account at the year 1816. " E. pntil the promulgation of the new Law on Finance, all the Taxes shall be gathered according to the Laws of 1816. " Given, &c. (Signed) " Louis." The PRESIDENT ordered this communication to be printed and sent to the Bureaus. M. Rot then made a Report, in the name of the Commission of Petitions, of which the following were the principal :—The Sieur Legrand, and other fur nishers of Abbeville, complained that they had fur nished subsidences to the English army quartered at Abbeville, in 1814, and that they are creditors of the State for 200,000 francs. They petitioned the Cham ber to take such measures as they thought proper to assure them the payment of the sums due.—Referred to. the Minister of Finance. The Sieur Carpentier, Printer at Douai, com plained of the difficulties he experienced in printing the Journal. The Commission proposed the Order of the Day. " - A Member.—" Refer it to the Commission charged with the examination of the law' on the Journals."— Adopted. . The Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusa lem reclaim the restitution of their unsold property, which is in the domains of the State.—ThesCoramis sion proposed to refer it to the Government: M.4.:PtuT thought that such was useless, because a Otilioll bad been presented to the King aird the two .Chanabersks be thought it would be better to refer it to the Commission el the Budget, is order that the property reclaimed may be comprised in the number of those falling under the law of Finance and the Sinking Fund. M. Duvaaoten DS HAURANNS declared, that that law related only to the State Forests; so that it were useless to, refer it to the Commission of the Budget, and that the above claim could only form a special law, which ought to be - proposed by tits Government. In conseqeence the Orator votes to _refer it to the, Government. Count -MARCELLVS called to tlFlinu.tne'services ren dared. by this order to the cause of religion.and timacy, in struggling against the pernicious doctrines of Republicanism ; he then chewed how just and usetal it would be to protect this order. He then voted that it be referred to the Minister of. Foreign Affairs. From all sides—a Seconded—seconded." The reference to the Minister Of Foreign Af f airs. was put and adopted. • Mr. de &Quid took the prescribed oath. The PRESIDIUM announced; that he would male 'known the ben day of a Public Sitting as soon as one of tho Reporters of ilie Commission charged with the examination of - the PrOjittlff 4.4 W shall be NOY to make his report. - , • • •• NAP44.IN7LLIC2NCI. FURTHER LOWER ON THI COAST DURING CALM ON SATURDAY LAsT. - - The sloop Nelson, Anctvs, was lost Gap, near Newhaven—crew saved, The Alexey, DitYEN, a Russian, is lost ri/ sey—the Captain, Mate, and five Theis peti , The Ann, of and from Dumbartnn, i s or , Yarmouth—since gone t, , pieces -..crew sae, The Lord Carringw,n, FeNwicx. of New, lost near Maarstrard, Bth October. The Elizabeth, ANI/RF:, Irnrl Cette to FL lost near Cardigan, on Friday night. The Eagle, HELLS, from Newfoundland horn to Naples, was lost tl:e bth Novem} Island of Monte Christo—crow Thu Carl Au7utt, LANcr, frnm St. Thom as Copenhagen, WAS Strat:dcd near Ergcr.ir' instant• 10Im the I' The Frederica Hendrica, from Ri gs It 11, t cttertlam, was stranded on Grtl,land, the ni l , 1 I C ITER N -EY. DECEM i:La l am sorry to announce the Lis seclnd treu s i, she is the Alexey, of St. i'versi:urrh, thral l Or D o . HYGEN master, frcm Li-hr.n, with Cocoa, and oranges. T!,.. crew ei;.iht in nurnb m , The Captain, Mite, and five men, pc7ioled. Tb t survivors can hardly give an 7 account of either t h e s hip or to whom she betorvi. Part of the cz gt hal been saved. PORTSMOUTH, 1)7C7.M77.R to Arrived his Majesty'. S.;1) A:4I,IIIVMM, ficz India; Violet, ALLyru, from bu ° ios .gyre:, wit!l kr ; of sail:, and cargo damaged. Put tuck the limy, Saiied tic Relifrcea. STonnanr. for London. DEAL, DFCLMBER 141, Arrived and remain the Ti;:-mss Grenville, f r y China ; Surrey, !rem Batavi ; and Ann, HAsstri, from lewfeundland. Came down from Vat Ris er and remain the Carvalho, ft.r the Brazils Marga t e. fur Gibraltar; and Lord Mc Iville , for Bengal; d e latter has lost an anchor an 1 cable, and has be n supplied with another m Margate. W haven been able to learn any particulars of the vessels that parted yesterday and wera to leeward. The nat. I ward-bound remain all well.--Wind W. NEwtiAvEN, DixENtwa la. The sloop Nelson, A t hixs, lr , lutlistapton for London, with oats, ivory-hlsek, nuts, hoop s , so d furniture, was lost on Saturday night neat Billi ng Gap—crew saved—vessel bilged, and cargo salmi, but much damaged. DOVER, DECEMBER in. The vessel stated yesterday oi be on shore ail*. geness, is the galliot Amelia, Ir"m America ins Amsterdam, laden with cotton : she is rile entirely to pieces, and all the crew, except man, drowned. Only a few bales of cotton will be saved. 'I he s.ip Lord Somers is a complete wreck, and but part of the cargo will be saved. MARGA FE, DECEM3ER 16. The Lord Melville, outward-bound Eist•lnd:s. man, was supplied last night with an anchor, haling lost three in the late gales—she proceeded this nvirmag for the Downs. The James Sibbald, nutward-bound East-India-min, is riding in Par..Sand-hok, aid has sent a-shore for a supply of provisions. Theships in the Pan-Sand-hole remain all well. RANISGATE, DEC r.MBER 16. During the whole of Saturday night we experies. ced a most tremendous gale at West, which has cc. casinned much damage upon this coast, amingst the shipping; and had the wind been more out, the ton , equences would have been dreadful indeed, as a great many vessels, of all descriptions, were at an chor in the Downs. Several of these. which rods the gale out, sustained a variety et damage, by its. sels which had parted running on board of them,but we have not heard of any lives having been lost.— The Mate of the Providence, of Plynateith, had the misffnune to have his leg broken during the gals, br getting entangled in. some of the running rigging. Several vessels have come in yesterday and tail, with more or less mischief chine to them. quis of Anglesea packet, born London at having on board Admiral HanvEv., with cal stingers, and a hold full of goods. came evening, with the loss of both :anchors, ire she parted in' Margate Roads : she has been with othets, and will again get to sea this tide. Arrived yesterday afternoon. item the Flying Fish packet, Captain Ssarrit. with a dozen passengers,. having been out all the t, The brig Camperdown, of London, is on stare, , an aukward situation, off Eroadstairs ; another (a French vessel) was also on shore in that neir hood, but has fortunately been got off, Broadstairs Pier. ANO I'HER LETTER—.SAME DATE. The French brig Les Deux A mis, on r tetchy, has been got off, and carried into Bi Came in the Anii, Tasarsos, with loss of . cable; Palladium, Pamarsort, with loss of ditto; Marquis of Anglesea, BROWN, with loss two ditto ; Emerald, SCHMIDT, with loss of tc .and windlass upset ; Jahn, ALLEN, with loss mast, bowsprit, and other damage; Au:OU, sow, with less of bowsprit and one anchor and and Elizabeth, GRAY, with her anchor ledke• Cu`; toot-iirrtisE, DECZMBER i 4. Snips ENTIRLD IMWARUS-The (NI,. V Oezina Charlotta, Van Veen, and Crown lievcrly, froM Rotterdam ; I.dliau, Arthur, (pita tile Canaries; cure, Vacquula, and khans Mahal, Emil; well, from Baltimore; la Aaria, front Mat.isai; Mainland, from Riga ; Three Brothers, !roll San Antonia Feliculad, Cavaliro, front ft. 1:1...s ; Vero M•Nabh, Irom Cork, and ;lia r!, _ I ----.froin NalP /V6 OUTWARD s--ale Castle, I.a. !Ilan 2,10rri., t3T Viv Duke ot York, ('aver, fcr Rotrtrilaaa ; Raise William, for Antwerp; Susan,Freeman, fur Cpor.o, and Dorset, fpr Lisbon. PACKETS—DECEMBER 17. lasso's —Lady Arabel:a, With Mall nt Std Inst. wind; Doke of Marlborough, • with Mari 01 10th Prince Ernest, for the Mail of this ' AUDITERRANC.AN.-PriULt s ßSLilaib l)tritk Wt. waiting a wind. MADTIRA, CANAIIIt% awn PA MS --Qiteen with the Mail of sd inst. will sal on i'i'i 1...-t'vat of the Pi t the 14th at Falmouth. HOLLAND, CO X NAVIN, AND w to.: `7.-1-I:nry Fieeriwl/ Hamburgb and Bremen ditto, ditto; Beaway, w Mail of 1 sth inst. sailed the Itida, at Nine .4-M.; Cliattet' (extra), with the Golietibuigh repairing damage. hf k Inuta.—Packet Mails to Bombay will be conveyesii Malabar, Capt. Ascough, in the Downs waitini a *hid; d I , Mails fur Madras and Calcutta, rill dirtiat.:beil by the " I ' mond, Capt. Clark, to sail claret front Gravesend to MadrA7 maining at Madras 41 days—.l,iti.ri in One oillhe 19 01 o wn), Packet Malik for St. Helena, will he Jisintichckl raleg)it storesshlp Tortoise, was to 141 front Gravesend lb 1C Packet Mail arrived from St. Hydro, by Ids Mje'tf sll t . pk, dated 27th October. " N(2 14 h al bore at gi tru s • • . A tear Gun bed rished. on * um itse" in i red. art , vr" vtastle, 'tics, Havre, vr 4 u stry d and L et . woold' be 'bet cff t y by direc t T °P a r hnlnaS o w le t mint the la ct.l, Id tal'y, Inv Tile r ACC • I N ue ir .1 rotu•wh • r a suppr his night' lb rn Oat. Kith; I theft In exec I notbd big l e neighbor F, 31314 St 3 'B. shove in Braadmin. anchor a• ) loss of rith Ices of Ins ditto loss ttf iota, JAM- rbd Obit i ): • 11 4. from LAM I ly, Ptl ales; 4 n ..,,* 1 Emily, 414+; !rorn Ostend Ferwan roin Nalk 4 r Vtocai l Pallor Dorset, , waitlag oth 4.'34 64 Ith ri>al d ueen Ch .k. nag I tarn Sir-- In. ID 11* ot we 1 ixime IRA*" • Jas. • N.l Ike Pla4 se a I bnu Ttre pcfto should comPt to say jest. bad al bet ol adviA illy.' .—He proce the V 1 om thh sob •I