Star. — London, England, 1821-10-12 00:00:00

I . :,,,. . • , ... _ ... THE REVENUE. • 'lt ..411.STRArg of the 2fET PRODUCE of the REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN (exclusive of the Arrears of War Doty on Malt and Property) in the Years and Quarters ended 10th October, is2o and 10th October. lon ; skewing OW Increase or Decrease on each bead thereat twee laran? C‘lstoms ... Excise Stamps .... Past Mier Assessed Taxes Land Taxes Customs Excise Stamps Post °Mee Assessed Taxes Land Taxes Miscellaneous Increase an THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1821. THE FUNDS. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK: Bank Stock 236% 34 ex. div. 3 per Cent. Reduced 76% 77% 77 ex. div. 3 per Cent. Consols 77% its. 78 77% 3% per Cent. 87% % ex. div. 4 per Cent.9s% 5 / 8 es. div.-5 per Cent. 110% 1 ,4 Long Anns. 19% 1 / 2 ex. div.- 7 lndia Stock 238 1 ,4 Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann. 770/ 4 India Bonds 70s. 68s. pr.—Exch. Bills 4s. ss. pr. Each. Bills (Small) ss. 7s. prem. Cons. for Account 77 Y 8 3,4 78 77 N. - Our Readers will perceive from the above Official Statement of the Produce of the Revenue for the last Quarter, that it exceeds that of the corresponding Quarter of last Year by the sum of £837,264. When the circumstances, however, by which this increase is qualified are considered, it would be idle to regard it as furnishing any positive indication of AI advanced state of prosperity. The rise in the Customs, the returns from which are at all times the surest tests of the state of com merce and manufactures, is only £113,546—a dif ference, on an item of millions, too small to justify any general conclusion; and in the Stamp Duties, from the produce of which we may judge of the ac tivity and extent of our domestic sales and transac tions, there is only an increase of £44,016, which is likewise too insignificant a difference to be regarded as otherwise than accidental. Again, if we contrast the produce of the whole year ending the 10th of October, 1821, with the produce for the year ending the 10th of October, 1820, the total Increase becomes reduced in the Customs to the trifle of £19,760 I and in the Stamps, to £31,504. On the other hand, when we turn to the Post Office, which is a still surer indication than the Stamp Duties; of the extent of business we are doing—for necessity may compel sales, transfers, and mortgages, when the post does not bring in an order for weeks together—there has been a decrease in the last Quarter, as compared with the corresponding Quarter of last year, of £33,000, and in the whole year, ending 10th October, 1821, as contrasted with the year ending 10th October, 1820, of £115,000! Whence then has the great increase on thelast Quar ter chiefly arisen? From the Excise—from an increased expenditure on the part of the People, which may be explained in many ways besides that of an increase of means. The excess in this department is £597,205. —Misfortunes, we are commonly told, drive thou sands into habits of intemperance, who would other wise have remained examples of sobriety ; and in this way it is easy to see how Individual distress may he one cause of an increased consumption of excised • articles, and of that augmentation of Revenue from which the conclusion of general prosperity is so loosely deduced. Joy has also at times its influence in making both rich and poor, high and low, launch out into greater expenses than is common with them, or than they are well able to bear; and in this way we are disposed to think the whole increase on the Excise Duties of last Quarter may be sufficiently 'accounted for without reference to any other source. Have those who talk so exultingly of the produce of last Quarter as a proof of great general prosperity, forgot that, in the course of that Quarter there was such a thing as a Coronation—the Coronation of 6 , one of the most universally—by—all—true—lovers of the Constitution—beloved Monarchs that ever swayed the British Sceptre" (we need not inform our Readers from which of our Contemporaries we quote)? Has there been no increased consumption of stifles, spirits, and malt liquors, in consequence of dsis glorious, auspicious, and happy event ?—No Carmation dinners—no Baronial. banquatings—, so sisal rejoicings? Has ivat the wine flowed in one streets? Have not the poorest in the land bum in vited by their wealthier superiors to drink their fill in honour of the great occasion? To descend a little to plain facts, had every one of-the adult popu lation only taken an extra pot of porter on the occa sion (we are sure they deserved it), it would have fully accounted for all the real increase which has taken- place in the amount of the Excise Duties for last Quarter. - Need we add, that a Coronation is a kind of windfall, which the bolstering deluders of the day cannot calculate upon, either often or soon ; and that the extraordinary expenditure which took place last Quarter on this account, may possibly be balanced by a corresponding economy in the Quar ters yet to come? A Bill is intended by Ministers to be brought into Parliament, when it next meets, which, if it passes, into law, will effect a great alteration—indeed, we may say, an entire revolution, in our Military Sys tern ; but one of such a nature, that none will more sincerely approve of, it than those who are most apprehensive of the danger of the military force to our constitutional liberties. The leading object of the measure is, to dispense with Regiments of the Line altogether in Great Britain, with the exception of the Household Troops. The regular Militia in Great Britain amount to about sixty thousand.— Instead of the Regiments being exercised as at pre sent, for twenty-one days at a time, it irproposed that each year twenty thousand shall be called out to serve for Me whole year, and be then disembo died; so that each Regiment will be on actual ser vice one year in every three. On being disem bodied, a certain number of the Officers and men of each Regiment are to be allowed to volunteer into the Line to fill up such vacancies as may occur; We understand three Officers will be allowed to volun• Leer with every sixty men. By this arrangement we shall have, in the course of every three years, a body of 60,000 men completely trained and disciplined, instead of; as at present, hav ing 60,000, who, from the short period for which they are called out each year, are at no time better than raw recruits ; we shall have a Constitutional force of 20,000 men constantly on foot, which will enable, Government to dispense with the use of regular troops in all the Garrisons at home; and we shall besides have presided an excellent nursery of good soldiers for such portion of the Regiments of the Line as k may be found necessary to keep up for foreign and other service. It is scarcely necessary to state that the measure, as we have now explained it, has reference to a state of peace abroad and at home. Should either foreign' war or Intestine commotion: arise, the power will still be reserved to Government of calling out the whole 60,000 men, or any number greater than the stand ing 20.000, as they may see fit. The ultimate effect of the measure will, of course, be a still further reduction than what has recently taken place in the Regular Army; and this is what Ministers distinctly contemplate. The management of the Bill will, we are informed, be entrusted to the able hands of the Earl of BUCKINGHAMSIIIIII. The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived at a late hour this forenoon. The accounts which they con tain from Spain shew that the plague continues its ravages, without the least abatement. Barcelona has heretofore been considered the principal seat of the in fection ; but we now learn that Tertosa, on the Ebro, has suffered in a still greater degree. The population of this latter place does not, we believe, exceed 12,000 or 14,000 persons ; yet in the period between the Ist and the 2Sd of September, upwards of 2800 persons were carried off by the fever. One cause which has aggravated the symptoms, and increased the morta lity of the disorder, is the extreme heat of the wea ther, which bad for some time ranged considerably, above 80 degrees of Fahrenheit. At the same period of last year, the temperature is said to have been generally little more than sixty. At Palma, in Ma jorca, the fever is also making dreadful ravages.— The cordon established by the French Government along the Spanish frontiers is preserved with the most rigid strictness. Two persons have been shot in at tempting to break it. French Five per Cents.—Monday, 89fr. A German Mail has brought the following articles of intelligence : VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 25. The Greeks again speak of the taking of Salonichi• The latest accounts from Greece are unfavourable; all the letters confirm the statement in the Journals respecting the terrible anarchy that prevails in the Mors; yet Jussuf Pacha is said to have been de feated near Patras, but' the confusion which prevails has hindered the Greeks from taking proper advan tage of the victory, as the Senate of Calamata, since the Turks have left those parts, has declared itself in dependent, and will have no community with those Commanders who have declared for Ypsilanti. Seve ral other small towns follow the example of 'Hydra ; their party does not, indeed, shew any hostility to the Commander-in-Chief, but will not obey his commands, except on very burdensome conditions, The foreigners who have arrived will not follow anybody. The older Commanders near Corinth have protested against Ypsilanti's full powers, on account of his youth. :FRONTIERS OF ITALY, SEPTEMBER SS. Accounts just received from Constantinople, by way of Venice, which are stated to come from diplo matic diameters, state that it was there considered ar certain that notwithstanding the departure of theA Russian Embassy, there would be no war, but that the negotiations would proceed. This news had much encouraged the numerous friends of the Greeks, who had hoped for a powerful diversion by Russia in favour of the Greeks. The latter, however, are not to be left at the mercy of the Turks; for Russia, as these accounts say, has declared its readiness to accept the declaration of the Porte as satisfactory, only in case the interests of the Greeks are secured under tha joint mediation of the Great Powers, to which Turley is said to have agreed. These ac counts confirm the previous statement of the re-esta blishment of tranquillity at Constantinople. The Turkish Government had spread a report that a new Russian Ambassader was coming, but this was supposed to be to tranquillize the people, and was not thought probable. But another circum stance which is considered as decisive for the main- tenance of peace is, that several Russian ships from the Black Sea sailed through the Dardanelles, and safely arrived at the Archipelago without experiencing any interruption from the Turks. These ships arrived after the arrival of Baron Strogonoff at Odessa, and after the publication of Count Langeron's Proclama tion respecting the free passage of the Russian ships through the Dardanelles, which is a speaking proof that no interruption of amicable relations between Russia and the Porte was entertained in the Russian ports in the Black Sea, where the present state of affairs must be better known than elsewhere. TRIESTE, SEPTEMBER 24. The Captain of an Austrian vessel, arrived here in twenty-seven days from Rhodes, states that the Turkish fleet, of thirty-five sail, captured that island on the 10th of August, and that no news bad since been received of an action with the Greek fleet.— Another Austrian ship arrived yesterday, in nineteen days from Salonichi, with letters to the Sd of Sep tember, which state that all was quiet, but the prin cipal Greeks were still in primp. The Greek troops were confined to Mount Athos, and the promontory of Cassandra, which lest they were to have cut through and made into an island. EAST FRIESLAND, SEPTEMBER 22. We learn that the maritime tolls and transit duties at the mouth of the Rhine and the Meuse, in the Ne.' therlands, are to be wholly abolished, which will be a most fortunate event for the trade. of Germany and its manufactories on the Rhine and in Westphalia, which have become so considerable within these ten years. When the Upper Ems shall in a few years be made navigable, and connected with the Lippe, there is reason to hope that the trade and manufac. tures of Germany will prosper, as the fetters which have hitherto impeded them shall be broken, and a direct and free communication also opened with South' America and the West Indies. ST. PETERSBURG H, SEPTEMBER 19. His Majesty the Emperor will leave this city on the 22d, when the Regiment of the Guards, now in can tonments here, are to perform the autumnal ma ncuvres. From the immense importations of foreign articles, and the proportionately small demand, some bankruptcies have taken place, but they are not con siderable. The harvest has not turned out well, in se veral parts of the empire, on account of the rain. American Papers arrived this morning to the Bth of September. The following are extracts : NORFOLK (VIRGINIA), SEPTEMBER 7. We have beard of no new case of fever for the last two days, and we are in hopes that the late storm has thoroughly purified the atmosphere ; since Monday the air has been clear and pleasant, and the morn ings and evenings moderately cool ; but it behoves the inhabitants, however, to be careful in drying and fumigating their cellars. IROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE, AMIRICAN WISAIII•FISRELRYThere cannot, at this moment, be far from two hundred sail of square rigged vessels engaged in whaling from the United States, and their number is every day increasing :-- these employ nearly five thousand seamen, and pro bably a capital of more than four millions of dollars. Our great mercantile rival, the British, carry on this pursuit at a much heavier expense than ourselves, and their merchants receive a bounty from the Govern ment to encourage the trade ; yet their even:mare, in some measure, requited by the price they receive for their oi3. BOSTON, SEPTEMBER s. Mr. John Lewis, who has just returned here from Hayti, where he resided many years, gives us the fol lowing information:—He was induced to visit that country to ascertain whit advantages and privileges the free blacks in this country would enjoy by emi gration to that island. He has returned perfectly satisfied with the stability of the Government esta blished there, and with perfect assurance that every facility will be extended to emigrants from this coun try: he further adds, that at Aux Cayes and Jacque mel there are a number of resident white merchants, many of them Americans, and that no animosity exists between the well informed part of the inhabit ants towards the whites there. Trade is highly flourishing in that section of the island. President Boyer has adopted a wise course of policy inrecently disbanding a part of the black troops, and distri buting them on fertile grounds, for the purpose of cultivation. Boyer was very popular, and was la , bowing L. linachosav the condition qf his peorlg, THE ICING According to letters received at Carlton Route,the KIM is not expected to return till the last w ee k November. His MAJESTT continues in mea nt health and spirits. PARIS. OCTOBER s. The King of ENGLAND arrived on the 2d at Alt. la-Chapelle. His MAJESTY was escorted as far as the frontiers of Prussia by a detachment of BelgicLa.lceti, During his MAJESTY s residence at Line, many p er . sons solicited the honour of being admitted to hi s presence. Among the number was Madame &man, of Armoutieres, who was for a short time the nurse of the Duke de BOURDEAUE, but who was obliged to give up the office on account of ill health. This Ltd y presented_ her son, the foster-brother o f t h e youn. MEW:, to his MAJESTY, who was lavish of his ca. resses on the child. FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER 28. We have just learnt the change in the plan a l l * journey of the King of ENGLAND, who will not visß our city. A courier has arrived on his way to n un . burgh and Stutgard to invite his Mansirv's sister ; the Landgravine of HEssz•Housuao, and the Qu ttik 'of WIaTEMBERG, to jo in him at Hanove r . A ncthet courier has gone to urlach, where the two Princ es of BIWNSWICE are on a visit to their great aunt, the Dowager Margravine of BADEN. The eldest of th e* Princes, who is now entering his eighteenth year, is to be declared of age , to be released from the gu ar . dianship of the King of ENGLAND, and to be installed by his MAJESTY, during his visit on the Coatinent, as Sovereign of the Duchy of Brunswick, which has bees under the administration of the King of Entass ever since the death of the late Duke at Quatre Bras HANOVER, SEPTEMBER so. His Majesty the KING is expected here about the Gth of October. On accoun►t of a misunderstandin between the Duke of CAMBRIDGE and the Elector al IiBIBB CASSEL, his MAJESTY is expected to come by the Osnaburg road, which, in the present unfasam I able state of the weather, is none of the best. OCTOBta s.—By the accounts received ye‘terday from Aix-la-Chapelle, we have learnt that his Ma. JEST; having stayed a day longer at Brussels, wool( not be at Aix-la-Chapelle till the 2d. By the accounts received this morning from Munster (where General BLoomnaim had already arrived), we find that his MAJESTY intended to stop a day at Dusseldorf, and consequently would not enter his German dominions till to-morrow. Between Munster and his OSDablUt MASIIITY 'will not take the way first proposed, by •o. gawk but that by Glandorff. All along the road pe. Random are making, as well as the shortness of dm time will permit, to express the joy of the people d seeing his MAJESTY in this part of his dominion"- All the way from the frontiers triumphal arches at erected ; at Osnaburg, a numerous Guard of How, both horse and foot, has been formed, and the um at Nieuburg, for the conveyance of the immediate* tendants of MAJESTY. Orders are given at cony stage to have relays in readiness (besides the hone for the KING'S carriage), horses for two bnlnies, si !ix horses, a baggage-waggon with six horses, to. chaises with four horses each, and two common hem Besides these, four carriages and thirteen horses axe required for the Marquis of LONDONDERRY and Ge neral BLOOMFIELD, who were to arrive at °suing yesterday, and come here before his 'Natant. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchesid CUMBERLAND were pleased, yesterday, to admit it Diplomatic Body to an audience. Arrived their Serene Highnesses Prince FREW:III of HEssu and the Prince of TOUR and TAXIS; it Russian Ambassador Baron CANIKRN ; the Prussia Ambassador Count GROTE ; and the Wirtembei Ambassador Count Wruzzucautonz. The Princes of BRUNSWICK arrived here yesterdas and occupy the apartimants prepared for them a Montrellant. Her Royal Highness the Landgravine of HO Housunc is expected about the middle of this moral The day is not yet fixed for the solemn •pubic entry of his MAJESTY into this City. Lord Assmuirrost, on his arrival in the Koch, gave a magnificent entertainment to his tenantry, s honour of his MAJESTY'S Coronation ; nearly 300 sat down to dinner in front of the mansion-house of Rost. hall, at which his Lordship condescendingly presided There was a grand display of fire-works in the ems. ing, and the merry dance was kept up at the Hai until an advanced hour in the following morning.— The teacher and scholars of a free-school, generoust supported by his Lordship, were not forgotten on this happy day : his Lordship, having examined the dl. dren, and distributed prizes to the most deserving, invited them in a body to partake of the general fey tivities. This distinguished Nobleman is naives:l4 beloved and reverenced by his tenantry. INIPRONTEMRSTS IV Wnstwnsvza.—The new froM to Westminster-Hall, we are informed, is only 0 earnest of farther improvements. The whole of sks. extensive building, it is saki, will be repaired ; tk ancient statues of the Saxon Kings and Judges we to be restored to their proper niches ; and the awns. rial bearings of the founder, Ruvus, and his Knighb, are to be replaced, and also those of RICHARD 11. ST. Jnmas'a.--The alterations and improvements in St. James's Palace will be on a much larger scale than was originally contemplated. They will to brace the suite of apartments occupied by the Duke of CUMBERLAND. A grand portico will be opal into St. James's Park, directly in front of St, James's-street. ST. PAUL'S BALL AND Cnoss.—The new Ball tot Cross are nearly completed in the construction; the outline and dimensions of the old have been 'vial" adhered to, but improvement has been made in the interior, to prevent a recurrence of failure; the it* bands, plates, ice. which were much decayed by twei have been replaced with copper and gun-metal. The, Ball is made of two pieces, the old one consisted 1 fourteen, a fair demonstration of the improved steg . of this science ;it is six feet in diameter, nd weir half a ton before it received its gems and ( mama' The whole height of the copper-work is twenty-seee ° feet, and weighs about four tons. The iron-spin' in the centre, and standards to strengthen the cote . work, weigh about three tons, forming together' Iweight of above seven tons. The whole will s hisol be removed from Messrs. Karr's factory, in Cbanilw street, to its destination. rases mere lOrn OCT. 1820. 1821. Increase. necrotic. x. ie. ic. 8,746,1 8,765,86 19, 26,488,508 !6,471, 36 ... 17,145 6,115,481 6,146,986 31,504 1,446 1,331, ... 115,000 6,279,i4 6,297,77 IS 1,907,650, • 1,217,856 10 360,54. 297,95 ... 62,584 50,643,810 50,528,801 79 1 7 194,729 Deduct Increase... ... 79,720 Decrease en the Year .... 115,009 <WAITERS 111 DID OM ~ 10. 1190. 1821. Increase. Decrease. Z. Z. S. S. 2,670, 2,844,231 175,548 7,552,021 8,149,226 597,20 1,581,204 19625,2 44.01 375,090 342, ... 33,000 760,576 793,522 32,956 174,522 207,481 32,959 71,642 61,222 ... 10,420 13,184,648 i 14,022,91 880,684 43,410 Deduct Decrease... 43,4 Increase en the Quarter 837,164 lit 4 w ' I avi sat fro 3 • bill mt abc lb essi nit the terc et 14 r.