Star. — London, England, 1817-01-07 00:00:00

THE REPEN UE. The Account or the Income of, and Charge upon the Consolidarczl Fuod in the Quarter ended the sth January, 1316 and 1817, together with the Amount of War TAXf•S to 1 the Annual Dntie , , Sec. to the same peri , .ii, has be -11 matle up at the Exchequer : The Income of the Quarer ended on the sth Januaxy, 1414, was 1:12,5”,438 4 4 The Inefune of the Quarter ended on the 4th January, i 4:7, is 11,118,513 iFt S: Quarter ended 4.h January, 1817, leis than the corretiounding Quarter • 61',403, 5 124 6 nf. The Charge upon the Quarter, en.l.:d on th e sth January, 18:6, WAS • The Charge ',putt the Quarter, emkd on the 4th January, 1817, i. 13,e00,000 0 0 InTunie , if Quarter ended Jaouary 1816 1'2022035 4 4 C:tArse upon it • - • .. 13, 10 . 383 4 81 13,127,383 4 5 Deficiency £604,945 0 11 Income of Qnarter enact! January 1817 X 11,118,613 18 S 3 Cloarge upon k - - t 3,200,000 0 0 . Deficiency of Quarter ended 'emery 1817 £2,0 i1,386 1 1311 The following are the Items of the Income for the two corresponding Quarters:-- 1516. Csotoms - - - Excise - - - Stamps - - Incidents, &c. - - Surplus Annual Duties - - Exchequer Fess - l'ontine Money • - - Interest Ireland - War Taxes - - Reserved out of Annuity to P. of Waks X 1,122,120 2 Hi - 4,126,139 0 0 1,520,340 2 0 3,353,979 8 0 492,397 8 24,000 0 0 11,810 6 1 .916,115 19 10 614,035 17 4t 5,500 0 0 I 1617. 412,522,4 U 4 4 Customs - - - - X 1,317,381 15 ll{ Excise - . - - 4,132,724 0 0 Stamps - - - - 1,461,123 5 11 Incidents, &C. - - . 2,881,795 0 2 Surplus Annual Duties • 361,317 4 1 Tontine Monet - • - - 11,807 16 1} • - Interest, Ireland - . 944,710 12 4 Reserved out of Annuity to Prince of Wales 5,500 0 0 Total, 4141,118,613 18 3} In the Excise there is t decrease of .E 393,415 0 0 • In the Stamps a decrease of - 30,000 0 0 In the Incidents a decrease of - 472,184 0 0 in the burplus of Annual Duties a decrease of 61,010 0 0 There are no Exchequer Fees received in last quarter. The Tontine Money is nearly the same in the two quarters. The Interest Ireland, has increased in last quarter about seBo.ooo ; but the corresponding quarter of 1816 has, it will be seen, the advantage of a receipt of War Taxes to the amount of £614.055. 17s. +ld. which in the quarter just expired was replaced by the War Customs, now made permanent, and amount ing to £571,917, and which have occasioned an ap parent increAse of the produce of the Customs be yond the receipt of the corresponding quarter in the V , last year. . The deficiency in the Receipts of Excise, Stamps, Incidents, and Surplus Annual Duties, is £985,000, from which, deducting the Increase in the Customs, £189,000, and in the interest Ireland, tiSt),ooo, the total deficiency will amount to 111766.000. • CHARGE UPON THE QUAKTER, 1816. It ni, ra s e t eg v er im ara - - .4891,043 8 7 - - 9,687,814 13 Iti Redemption Nadunal Debt 2,8E9,991 6 1 .Ctril lAst • . 857,000 0 0 'Pensions, am. - . 180,233 16 4 1 4 Total ....—..--- ae13,127,3113 4 5i , : i k r •• 1817. Tisch • - ,0693,036 1 4 Bank Dividends - . 9,569,050 3 it Redemption of National Debt . 8,888,7441 15 s Civil List • - 857,000 0 0 1 Pensions estimated at - . 256,1,86 19 5 Total a6i8.800.000 0 0 The Charge upon this Quarter is rendered greater by the Estimate of the Pensions ' &c. exceeding the corresponding Quarter by something more than £l$U,OOO. WAR TAXES-1816. Asnoout of War Taxes £4,699,452 19 91 Deduct War Tales, carried to Cons. Fund e 14,055 17 4J War Thee for Public Service 4073,417 2 si Amount of =les annually voted to pay of Three lof Exchequer Mlle 927,633 0 4 &limb Sea Duty - - 1,642 IS I Fottr and a Haffper Cent. 7,601 0 9 ,65016,295 19 3; Total .1817. Automat of War Taxes for Public Stevie* 414447,991 7 11 Amount of Dudes anoualiy voted to pay off Three MIMom of Exchequer bills • 1,1111,941 8 81 South Sea Duty - 743 17 61 P er and a Half pa Rea • 6,840 16 Total A3,666,tri1t 10 si The deficiency in the receipt of the War Tases in the List quarter. u compared with the corresponding Mu, is stI,S4S,M►7S. 2s. , THE EVENING STAR. ' LONDON. - TUESDAY, JANUARY 7. 1817. PM/ OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLO CK. Reda. 5I es—Cons. me. lea. f„,6s 64 per„Cent. 7.3f-6 pir Cent. Navy Oaf a. SW. Eactsegaer BUN, Os. In. pr.—lndia Bonds ass. pre. The continuation of selling Stocks was renewed this morning. All pressing to sell, but scarcely any buyers. They are expected to be still lower. It is pretty well understood, that the rise which toot place in the Funds during the last week, was occasioned by the assurance spread abroad from cer tain credible quarters, that it was the intention of blitihteru amid all their difficulties, still to persevere in their afflicting resolution • of leaving the Sinking F un d Co be applied, in its tall extent, to its ordinary aatkruhtous purpose of keeping the funds at an . as cending price. The hopes which this circumstance i nsp i re d, have, however, experienced a sudden eclipse. an the COOTSe of yesterday it became officially known, that in the Fevenue fqr the Quarter ending the Ist of January instant, there is a deficiency of no less than Tioo Mghons, TherfrouThousand, Three Hundred lsightreix Pound: 1 And the immediate conse quence was, a fall in the S per cents. of nearly three quarters per cent. Assurances—pledps—the mos t I confident, the most obstinate, lose di their weight when 'thus encountered by facts which threaten to de_ prive Ministers of all choice in the matter, and to oblige them ;o ap propriate to the wants of the State . ' that fund which they seem so anxious to devote to an artificial increase of its burdens. The extent of the depressi.)n, which an alarm for the efficiency of our resources has produced. is not. however, to be measured by the mere fall of three quarters per Cent. which has at present taken place in the Funds. The alarm is not one of this day's or of yesterday's growth, but one which has been of long standing and of constant increase. The fall of to- day is but one step of the progress—one particle Of all the depression it has occasioned. For true it is, however singular that truth may appear to many, that, according to all former results of certain opera ' tions on the Funds, the three per Cents. instead of being at 63 or 65, would at the present moment, but for the intervention of such circumstances of alarm, have been even some ten or, jfteen degrees higher. An assertion of such importance, we would not hazard idly ; and when we state the facts on which we ground it, we are not afraid of being thought to speak without due authority. For many years then, before the last, it is well known that the money annually borrowed by Go vernment greatly exceeded the amount annually ap propriated to the Sinking Fund for the redemption of the loans of former years; and that of course this annual borrowing served in proportion to its excess to depress the price of stocks more than the Sinking Fund served to keep them up . : or, in plainer terms, that Government always brought more stock into the market for sale, than it took out of it by purchase, and, by thus encreasing Ms reality, lessened the value of stock. In the Eve years previous to 1811, where the an nual loan did not on an average exceed the annual amount of the Sinking Fund by more than Eve mil lions, the S per Cents. rose 'to 701 but in 1815, when that excess had risen to more than fifteen millions, they fell so low as 59 ; and, in consequence of an en creasing excess in the loans till 1815, they fell in that year to 56*. What happened in 1816 ? The Cum'. ssunn of the Excnanuza resolved upon the bold ex pedient of reusing the whole Sopplies Within the year he would make no loan—at least no open loan which might abstract (for such was his fancy) any capital capable of being employed in the channels of industry. Government of course ceased to bring any more new Stock into the market foe,sale ; aid it alight have been naturally supposed, that in order to equalize matters, it would at the same time have ceased to hay, any more Stock, or at toast have so diminished and regulated its purchases, as not materially so cocrease the price upon itself—that is, eacrease the price at which it could effect its own redemption from debt.— But no—lt was one of the ruinous absurdities of our new Financial system, that the Sinking Fund should still be kept up to its full extent—that Government, though it had ceased to borrow, or, in other words, so isll, should still continue as great a purchaser of Stock as ever. What was the consequence t Was it not natural to suppose, that the excess bilng this reversed, the price of Stocks would be raised in as great a propor tion as it had before been depressed ? With Owe mil lions of an excess agabut the Stocks they had risen to 70—and to how much greater a price was there not reason to expect they would rise, now that there was not only no excess against them—no new loan to inundate the market with new Stock; , but, on the contrary, an excess in doeirfavenr of upwards of drums millions, being the amount of the Sinking Fund, the whOe benefit of which they were now to have with- 1 out any drawback whatever? But what is the fast ?, Has the rise during last year been sticb as there was thus reason to contemplate ? It hits uot. FrOm 56: the S per Cents. have risen to some kw degrees above par—but they have not yet risen neatly so high as they did even when the excess was against them. What then shall we ascribe as the cause of this in adequate result ? Shall we be so foolish as to sup pose that a want of money to invest if the cause, as 'long as it is so demonstrable a problem, that the ag gregate quantity of money in the counts-1; is as great at the present moment, however varied is its anti. tuition, as it ever was • The cause most assuredly is not want of mosey to ingest, but a want of the usual derma for ;smoky it an Government security. The confidence of the Public in that security has sunk. Suspicion has struck (we will not say how justly) at the basis of, the system, and all its accessary ornaments of high interest and of rising chances are looked upon but as, MOW dowers, • Gaudy and vain, sod sera* to betray , " Tbs is tbay'd make unprofitably goy !" • And who can wonder that such suspicion should have seized the public mind s amid a gloom so deep and troubled as that which has of late overspread our political hemisphere ?.--Who can•wooder at doubts and misgivings who has witnessed the embarrass ments of Government in all its departments—who has listened to the thickening murmurs and remon strances of a suffering people—who'has beheld the fearful symptoms of resistance which a Made-spread ing disaffection has exhibited in but too many guar . I tors of the country ? What cause for apprehension has not the speculator in Government securities, above all, to entertain, who has heard so much said and urged-4mO we twin say well urged—Ob bands, of the necessity of reducing the interest of nation.' securities, and of the great probability even of more serious compromises with an empty Exche quer ? Ycs—it is in these circumstances the coun teraction lies. Had the option of the public on the stAhility the esi,ting order of things been as high during ti.c past year, as it was at any time during the last ten years of war, we should not have had to tell of such opposite results from similar causes. The Stocks would not have been known to rise at one time when there was an excess against them, and to have fallen at another when the excess was extraordinarily in their fav•'ur. Our Readers will not, we trust, however, make the mistake of supposing that, because the application of the Sinking Fund to the purchase of stock, has not raised the price of Stocks in the same proportion as for merly, the effect of that application has been indifferent. The effect of it has been to produce a very strong reacting inSuence on those circumstances which we' have pointed out as tending so much to the deprecia tion of Government Securities. It has prevented the Funds from falling just in as great a proportion as in other circumstances it would have contributed to make them rise. It has been the artificial prop which has kept up the value of funded property, at a time when the value of all other descriptions of pro perty has suffered the most extraordinary depression. It is this, and this alone, which has saved the Stocks from sinking to that degree below par which would of itself, by a natural progress, have effected that reduc tion of interest for which we have so often contended as fair and reasonable, and necessary. Can it be said that there is any justice in such a state of things t Shall it be borne that this state of things shall be deliberately continued for yet another season of general distress and commotion t We are persuaded that every man who has a head to think for himself, and a heart to feel for his country, will agree that it ought not; ;tad, looking at the ini quity of that system which _would bolster' up the Funds at the expense of the , landed and every other species of property in the kingdom, will even feel some satisfaction from the conviction that, from pre sent circumstances, there is some appearance that the delusion, wbich bas so loog prevailed, is about to be completely dispelled. An Evening Coatetnporary, who persisted in denying that there bad been any treasonable machi nations detected at Boerdeaux, discovered, last night, that there had been alarm enough in that quarter.— lts authority was a letter. copied from a Plymouth Paper, but this letter is not new :—it was first pub lished in the STAR of the Ist inst. frain which it was copied into the country papers, whence it has found its way back again to London. SOUTH AMERICA. The Brazil Packet has brought letters from Rio Janeiro to the 29th of October, which state that the Portuguese were advancing, and had already entered that part of the Buenos Ayres territory nearest their own frontiers. The Commander.in.Chief had issued a proclamation addressed to the inhabitants of Mon• tevideo, and the eastern bank of the River Plate,' declaring that the Portuguese came as friends, for the purpose of restoring order and liberating them from the dominion of ARTIGAS, whom he threatens to exterminate. The further views of the Portuguese are not explained, nor is aay thing said of their acting on behalf of Spain. Some accounts also add, that so firm was the belierof the Brazilian army taking Montevideo, that already vessels with passengers had left Rio Janeiro for that place, and mercantile specu lations were also on foot for the same destination. On the other hand, we are advised that AaTIOAS has an army of 7,000 men, part of which. are well disciplined troops of the line, and the remainder light cavaky. He has been successful in some skirmishes, and is said to have penetrated into the Brazil territory from another point. It is added. that his plan is to grant freedom to the slaves, rouse the inhabitants of the interior, levy contributions, and also declare the country independent of the Brazilian Government. The advice. relating to Buenos Ayres by the same conveyance are not of 60 late a date as those we have already received direct, and which came up to the 26th October. They however inform us. that great levies of troops were forming ; that a great inunda tion had been experienced in the River, which had done great damage, and occasioned the loss of Spanish prize and 'sew, with the exception of three men; and that General BELOItAI4O had assumed the command of the army acting in Peru. As to the contest between Spain and her Colonies, we learn by levers (tom Madrid that a course some what similar to that which was followed by this country, after the contest with our American Colo ,mists had been carried on for some time, is about to be adopted. A Commission has been named to pro ceed to Buenos Ayres and Mexico, with full autho rity to olfrr the most liberal concessions, on the part of Old Spain, to the South American Provinces, upon condition of returning to their allegiance. Atnorg the Comm.: Linen, who are all of the first respeetabnity and of okoderate principles, are Gene rals WiIITTISOHAM and Rocas, both of whom have so much destingu;shed themselves in the Peninsular war, and who have also served in South America. We have no hesitation in expressing our hope and, wish that the result may he similar to what took place i North America. What can the Sou b Americans, gain ? What can the world gain, by the retura of these colonies to the yoke of such a tyrannical, bigoted, stupid government, as that of Old Spain ! This would be one of the greatest public calamities that could befal the maritime states of Europe--espe• cially Great Lisitain. P . ,s TIM 120V4L PAAmt,r. The disappointment and uneasiness arising fr-!z the non-arrival of the Bulletin of lkl , ,vtlaly Report the state of the Kixo, continued tta esterday af••• noon about two o'clock, when A copy of it was , twined at the Secretary of State', Oter for the Roue Department. The bulletin, it seems, was, by mistA4 sent to Brighton inJead of Lond n. It was al %.. wards posted up at St. JamesF. and was as follow!: BULLETIN. " Windsor Castle, Jarmary 4. " ii!S Majesty continues to enjoy a good state of bodily he:: and has been generally tranquil during the last month. His A.i. jest y's disurchr remains unaltered."—Slgned by the five Physicirl The QUEEN, we are happy to say, was so nvim better ou Sunday, that the Physicians in atter.d.s:.: upon her MAJESTY allowed her some to: and to resume her usual food. The QUEIN had 4 good night, and continued better yesterday. MAJESTY was indeed considered recovered. The Princess CHARLOTTE and Prince Learns keep her ROYAL HIGHNESS'S Birth-day at Clarem- z RELIEF OF THE POOR. The Pitisce REGENT has granted out of the farts at the disposal of his MAJLSTY, One Thntisa..i Pounds, in aid of the Subscription for relief of labouring classes within the city and suburbs Edinburgh. Ti'l Marchioness of BUCKINGHAM gave a dinner on Christmas day, at her seat at Arington, to above five hundred poor persons; and on New year's dey gave a smaller donation at Biton, near Abeam& His Grace the Duke of Batman has given l's usual donation of 100 guineas to the poor of Webtnn The Earl of TANKERTILLZ is now employing IT. wards of 40 labourers near Lord HILL'S column. JOHN NASH, Esq. of East Cowes Castle, has hii_ manely given directions to his steward to employ All the labouring poor who may apply for work, and put them at hedging, ditching, or any other 01:1 4 they may be able to do : he has also ordered a que.• City of flannel and coals to be given to the infirm Id the neighbourhood ; and directed that two quarters of wheat should be made into bread weekly, and d!.- tributed to the necessitous, also a quantity of soap to be made and given to about thirty individuals twice a week. Glows WARD, Esq. of North Woodhouse, has, from the same motives of humanity, caused 15 cwt. of good beef, besides coals, to be distributed among a number of poor people. In the parish of Rickmansworth a large subserip ' don has been raised, to be distributed in clothes, fu-I, and bread, to the parishioners during the winter; besides which, the Overseers have added a weekly allowance to all labourers who have three childiea and upwards—the widows' weekly stipend has like wise been increased, to remain so whilst bread re. mains at its present price; and the Overseers 1.?7, set all the unemployed to work, under the direcl,on of the surveyors of the roads, which enables then; :c make much improvement, without increasing tLe road rates. Mr. T. Ssirru, timber merchant, of Neu b:ny. Its dis•ributcd among the poor inhabitants of that pla;e sixteen sheep, and with every joint of meat a gailoa of potitnet. Oue Inindrtd and seven:cell iil,:igert t!,us partook of a gooJ dinner en Cf:r...tinai day, 13:nides a don itifm or iixproce to every t x.ranS in the Poor-house. Dr. ltooritso'::, cf Wamphray, has given to poor of tvlotfat £lO, to those of 'WamphrAy £11; gad to the poor of Hutton £.5 ; and has tfir•mti:k: 4 ctinsiderable sum to be given for the immediate Cfr plOylnt:l.t of work-people, in Waniphr.iy, and.in (1 titighboushood of Moat. Mr. Youxciat. 01 eraiglands, is laying large sums out in making toads in Kirkpatrick Just& The Trustees of the Moffat and Graitney road re laying out, fur immediate repairs, about woi.ch gives employment to some hundreds of Lawn-err.— The Trustees of the Dun:fries and Moffat road, aol of the Dumfries and Lot.hinaben rued, are ex tending their expenditure for the same purpose. The Marquis u: Tweenn•stm, at Yester, gives ern• ployment w every one of the poor that applies from the parishes of Gifford and Garvald, at one sbill;:i; per day ; and if they can bet better employment, if it is but for o-tc %LI, they are at liberty to tike it, and return, whtnev. r they please. Lady ANN HUI% JWlNSruse has tiirectrii rrt - . -1 1 incleising and rations wort, particularly in the pitri.'l.• of Johnstone and Kirkpairck-Just*, as will give ft , •• ployment to must of the Lbourers there throng!: tl.e winter and spring. Lady DOUGLAS Immune has given a considerable sum for paving the streets of Locket-by, and for making repaiss on the roads and executing drain.ye, Sm. in that neighbourhood. Miss Musatia JOHNSTONF, of Corehead, has giro% to the poor of the town of Moffat, the value of Alf, or meal and coals, and a consider.ble number or flannel gowns, for the aged and debilitated r women. To the poor of Kirkpatrick-Justa she Lit:- given £5. The Hon. Mrs. hiss Mackin:ln, of Cromary. diuributes soup and broth three days in the we , -k, ' the poor in het neighbourhood, and has also cats. a great number of flannel jackets to be prep-alt., which she is in the court.e of distributing. AIIMY.—The 32d It e. t ime it is stationed at Porchestet Castle, and li , nt Cumberland. His MAJESTY'S cre.im-coloured horses are dailr exercised in the Parks, preparatory to his ito)4l Highness the entNcs ItEtiiiNT going in state to open the Parliament.. Yesterday Fame ESTERHAZY arrived in ...s• - • from Diigliton. In the evvnirg his Highoe'.s town again, on a visit to their Royal and 6:: •—• Highnesses Princess CHARLOTTE and Prince Colo,: at their seat, Claremont, Surrey. Yesterday the first general rehearsal of the o; , ca took 'lice, which lasted near four hours. It ;s a few Opera, the music by CisiAftosA. •Yestercbly being t e anniversary of the Eis;plisa:t the Nam was observed at the Chapel Royal, 14aret's Pilace, with the usual offering of three bql of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, to the name a t .e The E. r of BRIDGEWATEOS magnificent C.lstl: 4 rilabbridge, has stvrral times lately escaped cime , gration. Different apartments have at diffettnt it• rinds been discovered oil &re, but fortunately in WI to prevent the diabolical intentions of the itt:cadia -, who is yet unknown. Strong suspicions, 'covets , are entettaiucd respecting the offender. •