Star. — London, England, 1814-11-28 00:00:00

5:11. To pledge for the paymett of the interest on the amount issued, so much of the internal duties as shall be necessary. To prevent an accumulation of circulating medium, the United States to retain the pass er, on giving six months notice, of redeeming them with specie, or exchanging them for stock, bear ing an interest of 8 per cent. If these provisions are adopted and taxes imposed, which shall manifest' cleariv the ability of the Government to meet its en- gagemenrs, our present difficulties will Vanish, confi• deece lie restored, and the capital, hoarded by avarice, or locked up from timidity, will . be again restored to 'I the accustomed channels of circulation. In presenting ad3itional objects of taxation, care has been taken to select such as will bear equally on every portion of the community. In Europe, the price of agricultural products is not materially affected ny a state of war ; the produce of the earth is there consumed within the country, in peace and in war. The situation of the United States is totally different —with an extensive and fertile country, and a small population, compared to the extent of our territory, we have annually a large surplus to export to foreign markets, over and above what is necessary for con sumption. On the export of this surplus, which is cut off by war, depends, in a great degree, the ability of the farmer to meet taxes. While, however, war depresses the agricultural interest, it gives vigour to various manufactures; by destroying all foreign com petition, the war has brought many of these manufac tures to a state of perfection,whiet will secure their suc cessful prosecution even after peace shall be restored. In times of difficulty and danger, we must appeal to the patriotism of every class of our citizens. These establishments, under the fostering hand of the Go vernment, have grown to maturity, and will not he sitate to bear, with the agricultural interests, their por tion of the taxes necessary to maintain unimpaired that character for punctuality and good faith for which the American Government has been heretofore distin guished. Si:veral of these manufactures have been se lected as proper subjectsof taxation • and it is proposed to unite with the taxes a pledge of the public faith for the continuance of the double duties, until the tax shall be repealed. The Committee deem it unnecessary at present to present any view of the expenditure for the next year, reserving a report on that subject until the estimates of the Treasury shall be forwarded.— Confining therefore this report to the additional taxes necessary for the support of the public credit, they submit the following Resolutions: .1. Resolved—That it is expedient to continue the direct tax, and to increase the rune 50 per cent. 2. That it is expedient to increase the duty on spirits 4istilled, by an additional duty of 12f cents. un the gallon. S. Itat it is expedient to add 160 per cent. to the present duty on sales at auctions. 4. That it is expedient to add 50 per cent. to the present duty on the conveyance of papers and letters. 5. That it is expedient to impose a dory on the following articles viz. manufactured tobacco and snuff, in the bands of the snanufacturer • (=dies of tallow and .perrnaceti ; bus; cotton yarn spun by the aid of inachiuery, worked by steam or water; leather; pig-iron; castings; bar, rolled and slit iron ; and on sails made by the aid of n...chinery ; on furniture, above a cer tain value, except beds, bedding, and articles of domestic manu facture, in the bands of the owner; beer, ale, and porter, in the bands of the manufacwrer ; boots and shoes, above a certain price, in the hane.s of the manufacturer; on plated harness, in the bands of the owner • on vats fur the manufacture of paper ; en saddles and bridles, above a certain price, in the hands of owner; on gold and silver watches, in the hands of the own•!r, on pleasure horses, kept exclusively for the saddle or carriage ; on playing-cards. and on lotteries. THE EVENING STAR. LON DON. NEXT WEDNESDAY THE SI AIT LOTTERY BEGINS DRAWING-THE WkiOLE IS TO BE DRAWN UN THAT DAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1314. PRICE OF ?MOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Redused 64H-4 Tser Cent. 807-5 per Cenr. Nay yD64i Conanlb 641—fur account, Grii—Onmum k Bark Long Anus. 161.16th—Inclia Bonds 163. 17s. pro. Vlcboquerßills Stu. to 52. prem. The Gazene et Saturday contains but too truly the opinion that has been generally entertained respecting the late operations on Lake Champlain. The brief letter front Sir JAWS YE-) speaks ly)me to the under standing r,f every [Leader. The American accounts also appeared in this Paper. It is but candid to allow thst both General MACOMB and Commodore MAC . DONOUGH'S dispatches are wrizten in a plain and manly stile,. very different hem some statements of preceding affairs—a circumsta!ice tending strongly tc. corroborate the general ()pillion respecting tliii event. In fact their victory was so decisive as to require in, glossing. As we cannot doubt that all the circum stances attending this distressing event will, as soon as possible undergo a proper investigation, we shall desist from farther observations at present. We extract the following judicious ob4ervations, on the American question, or rather on the state of America itself, from- the Rlunish Mercury, a foreign journal, received ty the last Hambcrgh Mail. It ex poses the nakedness of the American Government in a very forcible manner, and proves, incontrovertibly, that a state of profound peace, and not of war, is at all times the most fitting policy for such a heteroge nious body politic, as the American States exhibit : " The course of events leads our attention to a war which is, indeed, carried on in another quarter of the globe, but is more important fee ours than is ge neralfy believed. It is the contest between England and America. It cannot be said that America has b~gnn it wholly without provocation ; the violence which prevailed in these latter times, by sea as well as by land, exposed them to many vexations from both parties, as their ships roved in every sea, and when, at last, she struck the balance in their books, and found that England did them more harm than France (which latter, indeed, only wanted power, and by no means good will to exceed its rival in this point), they began, like true merchants, the trial by arms with England, which still continues. " It is certain that this injury, which with their in creasing prosperity and gain they might have well borne, was only the outward cause of the breach, and that other secret causes bad a much greater share in it. The first is, the hatred towards the mother country, which still'animates these Atlantidae.— Since they have acquired their independence, this anger has not been appeased ; and though Britain has long pardoned their defection, and treats them with respect, they have, as is the manner of the weak, never suffered themselves to be softened, but with the noble animosity, which also among us disunites the most those who are nearest, have continued hos tile to their nearly related brethren. " As France had helped them to assert their inde pendence, they were from the first naturally inclined to take part with her ; and when the Revolution broke out, the republican forms and ideas s; hich came into circulation brought them closer together. Thus they continued to love the French, and be averse to the English; and when Napoleon announced a system of Government in the most palpable contradiction to the principles which they professed, and at the same time made them the• objects of ill-concealed mockery, they still did not cease to adhere to him. 44 Mean time the public opinion in England had constantly remained favourable to them; the war, which terminated in their independence, had been un popular from the beginning—their deliverance ap peared to the English nation only the happy result of lawful resistance to oppression : by the liberal Re publican character which the preponderant influence of Franklin had impressed on their constitution, they passed in the eyes of all Europe for the natural repre sentatives and champions of civil ar d religious liherty, and all those who in this quarter of the glo*:e were oppressed by the unexampled despotism of the times, turned an eye of longing and of hope towards the new world, where a fairer scene in the first bloom of youth seemed to rise above the waves. " 'Such opinions, which were echoed over to them from every port and hat bout of the Old World, could not fail at length of being believed by themselves, and to lay the foundations of the most dangerous 'elf-deluding vanity. They were long since accus tont,:d to consider the French revolution as the daugh ter of their own revolt, and fer that very reason look ed on it with tender affection; and when the child had become so strong that it eagLerly stretched forth its hands to grasp the whole world, they were lost in admiration of the glorious and great ideas which it displayed, and resolved, on their side, not to remain behind ; and when the French Empire extended its frontiers from the Streights of Gibraltar to the Bos phorus and to the Elbe, they also dreamed in their world, the dream of greatness, and figured to them selves how very fine and glorious it would be to found there an Imperial Republic, which should extend from Hudson's Bay to the Gulf of Mexico and then join a South American Republic, which was on the point of being formed of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies.—Thus war was declared agaiaet England, and the invasion of Canada resolvei on. But though Jefferson in official speeches and proclamations calls his people the most vii twins, the most tree, and the most enlightened on the face of the earth, it is very far from being iso, as peop:e in the old world kindly believing such speeches, have dreamt and fancied. America is a young State, lately founded by migrations, as in ancient Greece the tribes of Pelasgians, the Hellenis, and the Egyptians, crossed each other in various directions, and settled nearly intermingled with each other, so it has hap pened beyond the Atlantic ; and the various tribes that have migrated thither have taken root near each' other, without combining together into a uniform whole : thus we find, close to a place that is quite English, another that is quite German, and thus again another all French, and so on ; who, totally separated Item each other, have nothing in common, either in their manner or language. But what particularly distinguishes the new States from similar ones in the old world is, that the °a i- Sinai sources from which it is derived, were not wild nervous barons, untamed mountain tribes, in t!.eir primeval energy, as was mostly the case in the an cient world, but that tame civilized nations gave not their•superfuity, but their dregs, to supply the new Plantation, which as they settled in a still wild un tamed land, naturally assumed a portion of their wild ness, and are therefore in a state of cultivation which does not appear like an original barbarism, but rather as a partly forgotten civilization, degenerated into wildness. As in children, so in young states selfish ness is the predominant character. Thus the whole being of the Americans is at present founded on interest and gain. At home land jobbing is prosecuted with indefatigable zeal— at sea, their ships explore every region in search of gain. And it is precisely because the lowest animal wants of life act with preponderant influence, while all the higher efforts remain unexerted, that the de magogue principle prevails in their Constitution ; there is there only people, only Plebs—no nobility or gentry—only the shape of the column, without the wreathed capital ; and therefore great talents in every department are rare, which does not, however, prevent slaves, both black and white, from lying chained to the soil, who have come over from the Old World. Property is therefore the sole standard of esteem and of civil liberty: whoever is worth fifty pounds may be an elector. Even the. Government, and espe. cially the Erecutive, must, according to this prin. ciple, appear but like a simple flower at the top; and in such a plant, which is, one may say, all root, it caa by no means spread out towards Heaven a stately 'and expansive crown. In the newness of the whole establishment, which has no history, no historical re= miniscence can have any influence ; and it is not pos sible that respect for what is old and long•established can work upon the mind and give it internal solidity: all lies on the surface. For the same reason, the whole edifice of that constitution is still rude—the m.:chanism inconvenient and awkward—the admi nistration of justice bad ; because their Magistrates, chosen by the President and the Senate, and not re gularly paid, but ~only from time to time rewarded gratuitously, become necessarily the creatures of these who have their fortune in their hands. " Their religious institutions bear, every where, the mark of this state of things. Christianity is there divided into an innumerable swarm of the most diffe rent sects ; Presbyterians, Anabaptists, Methodists, Universalists, Epitcopalians, Congregationalists, Quakers, Moravians, all are mixed together in the most motley variety, and the character of civilization degenerated into wildness, here shews itself in tie most decided manner ; since even the mild and chaste reli gion of CHRIST has there produced Bacchanalian- Orgies; since in their meetings, under the clnthict of some Priests of the Methedistical Church, crowd: of both sexes, go from all quarters, to the obscurity of the gloomiest forests, and there celebrate, in Ow night, those feasts which have every thing in c )moron with the ancient Bacchanalia, except the energy of primeval nature, which might formetly serve to ex cuse them." We have to state, on the authority of a gentleman jost arrived (vier Bourdeaux) from. New York, that the war with Britain is very unpopul tr in that city. Specie is very sc tree, and the bankers asid merchan:s find so great diificulty in making their payments in cash, that recourse has been had to the issue of a paper currency. Great dread was entertained lest the eastern states should declare their neutrality, and admit the manufactures of Britain, which would drain the other states of the dollars necessary to p ty bil:s drawn in payment of these commodities. The con tinuance of the.war is expected to produce s:ill greater difficulties to the merchants : heavy bills had already been drawn upon New York, in favour of Brizis't traders, for goods carried out. They now find it dif ficult to send out a privateer, frlm the vigilance and numbers of our fleet in the neighbouring seas. It is also stated, that the Government found the war so expensive that every gun transported to the lakes cost several hundred dollars—the report says sor 600. It is added, that the wages of the seamen in the nr.:r. chant service, have been reduced, by the loss of trade, from . %) to 12 dollars a month. To.ttay we received Paris Pipers of Friday—yes. :erday those of Thursday: A letter from Frankfort, dated November 20, says: 46 Much is said at Vienna about a long conference between Prince METTERNICH and Lord CASTLEREAGI3 arrivaltLe of a Courier from Italy, and also about die cyder given to three Austrian Generals to pro ceed to Paslua, where Marshal Count BELLEGAHDE tt ill give them further orders. At die same mo ment an expre,s was sent to Sir SIDNEY Sturrit, who had gone upon a short excursion with the Prince Royal of PRUSSIA, and this gallant ()dicer instantly returned to Lord CASTLEREAGH!' Count MAlsos, Military Governor of Paris, has published a general cyder, in which he says, " winter, of ccurse, renders the service of . the garrison of Paris more painful,. but also more important. To combat the enemy during war, and to watch over the public security during peace, are duties which every soldkr should equally pride himelf in perfuming. Tl:e chiefs of posts, and especially the officers, should not think their duties confined to passing 24 hours in their guard•►com. Their vigilance should extend to all around them; they should be attentive to the least noise ; should ascertain by frequent paroles, that every thing is tranquil; they should repir rapidly, and even without waiting to be called upon, whither. soever their presence may be necessary to restore order ; they should cause to be arrested and conveyed before the Town-Major, every individual taking part in any disorder." The order proceeds to direct, that if the persons arrested be citizens, they shall be placed at the disposal of the civil magistrate. The Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES and suite are expected to leave Weymouth on Wednesday, for Cranbotun Lodge. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held, which sat till near four. The Court-martial on Sir JAMES MURRAY is to be held on the 16th of January next. TheJunccAovo. CATE has issued summonses to the witnesses to give their attendance. his reported that the Bank is to advance,R6,ooo,ooo to Government, to enable them to put off tl:e Loan until May or June next. Several communications have recently taken place between Government and the ;lank ; and a Special Court of Proprietors is appoint. ed for Thursday next, which is supposed to have a reference to this subject. A t Plymouth, on Thursday last, as Mr. SADLIRPS Balloon was just prepared for ascension, and Mr. SA DlA:ft, jun. ready to step into the car, a sudden gust of wind impelled it against some iron railing, which tore the netting and did other damage, which pre. vented Mr. S.'s ascending. The balloon, however, was suffered to go up without him, and was after. wards found on Dartmoor. A CERTAIN PREVENTIVE AGAINST WEALTH Carefully avoid CARTER'S, No. 8, Charing-cross; for it you 'come there before WEDNESDAY, you will be in the greatest danger of encumbering yourself with a Capital Prize—and riches, alas bring trouble. na ARMY. A draught cf IN) men from the detachment of the 47th regiment, at Sandhurst, will speedily march for embarkation to join the Ist battalion in India. The remainder of this detachment is to be emrl , lyed nil the execution of the works at the Rayal Military Col. ler, under the command at Captain PA qCONS. Two troops of the Royal Horse Aitire-y, corn m ended by Colonel FRASER, have marched from Woodbridge Barracks to Colchester. These trool s have lain in barracks and quarters nearly 2U years, and by their regularity and steady cialduct, gamed the respect of the inhabitants and neigLbourLood. Monday three companies of the 2J Veteran Bit. cation, lately arrived at Chatham Barrack, from Madeira, embarked for Sheerness. NAVAL IArrisLLIGENCR. The Athill, HUGHES, from ?.ante, and Peter, Mn.. LER, from Messina, to London, were taken the 19;h instant, near Ushant, by the Lawrence American privateer and sent for America. The Hannah, Hones, from Malaga to Dut , lin, and the Brilliant, of Banff, from Malaga for London, were captured the '2lst instant, in lat. 45. by an Ante• rican privateer of two guns- and 100 men. The Tyne and Trent packet, MiLsca, from Lon don to Hamburgh, was lost the 14th instant in the Elbe—only the pilot saved. The Louisa, Lours, from London to Hamburgh, was lost the 12th instant near Sandy Island—crew saved. PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER 26. Put in here on Wednesday several of the fleet bound to Spain, Portugal, &c. under co nvoy of his Majesty's ship ME.ANDr.it, Arrived yesterday the 1 3 `DARL....:41 sloop of war, from the Bay of Biscay ; Buts Els sloo•>t of war from the Eastward. Arr i ved to-day the brig Edward, FALCON En rr aster, front Teneile, with wine, was captured by the Lawrence, Arn:rican privateer. and recaptured by 11;s M iiesty's ship GLAsuow ; the Blessing, SKINNER, from Newfoundland, in 16 days—sailed with a fleet, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Comwr, bat paled two days alter sailing. Car: e in his Majesty's ship ROYALIST from a crnize. AL. lived several ships horn various places, particulars to morrow.—Wind S.W. PORT::.MOULIT, NOVENIBM 26. The second convoy from Newfoundland this SCR. son, arrived here this evening ue.der protectiol of the COMET, Captain BLAMEY, and C:IIALLVNGER, Captain VERNON, atttr a good passage. They left the iiland on the 7th instant, at which time the IlErt.tatemog was out on a ciuize, but it was expected that Sir RICHARD KEATS would sail in her with the last fl"et, for England, about the 25 h or 26th of the present month. The fleet c.:nsisted tit 36 sail, amongst which were the transports Trafalgar, No. 661, MircaLt.t. ; and Isabella, N 0.547, l'Arrutsom.. _ _ Nov. 27.—Came into harbour his Majesty's ship STAG. Went out of harbour his Majesty's ship Ton rorsz. The West India fleet are still at St. Helen's. The brig Woodman is on shore on the Warden Le.lge, near Yarmouth, Isle of Wig 4t, and has sustained damage--Wind S.W. blows fresh. DEAL, NOVEMEE.R 27. Sailed yesterday tf .. .e NERE.LB frigate, for the River. Came down from the River the CLORINDE frigate, and remains with his Majesty's ships Bombay, Ito sario, Vixen, Mercurius, and Wrangler. Also came down from the River several West Indiamen. RAMSGATE, NOVEMBER 27. The Commune de Bourdeaux, with a cargo of wine, brandy, cambric, silk, china, &e. was the night before last wrecked on the G..odwin Sands, and no part of the cargo or vessel sar , ed ; the crew landed safe at Broadstairs. The Allice, PIICTEttS, irom Dub lin to London, lust an anchor and cabie. Put in up wards of 20 sail for shelter. SOUTHAMPON, NOVEMBER 20. The ketch l'Egerie, from Nantz, airived here last evening, having pait of the crew, the mate and five men, of the brig Go:A Intent, of and bound to Teign mouth, TsimuN, mastLr, from Newport, with c0.,15, Itaken the 19th instant and burnt by the AMeriC.ill schooner privatto- Lawrence, Captain VASSEY, nitre 12-pounders and 70 men, about 20) tons burtlien.— The Lawrence had taken seven prizes, five s..„t to America, one given up, and the Good Intent burnt. TRURO, NOVEMBER 25. The schooner Golden (rove, master, from Dartmouth for Newport; and 1.1 Bonne Arnie, a French sloop, from Bay onne to Plymouth, have been carried into Penzance through the intrepidity of the master and crew of the Wellington, pilot-beat, of that place. Both vessels bad been much damaged in the recent gales, and would probably have been lug but foram courage of the Penzance men, who put off to their assistance in a dreadful gale.. The NIGER and LAUREL, the arrival of which from India we announced on Friday, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope on the 4th of August. During their cruize on the Line, they captured a Portuguese brig, bound to the Brazils, having 220 staves on beard. The DESIREE, Captain WooLouthor, arrived at the Cape on the 6th of August, and the ELK, Captain CURRAN, on the 10th of July ; the latter sailed again on the 14th, with the dispatches (announcing the Dr. liuitivr Treaty of Peßce), for India. A prize to the llyder Ally American privateer, had ran into Sal. ilanha Bay (Cape of Good Hope) in distress, and was there taken possession of by the troops in garri. son. She was captured on the cost of Sumatra. Many doubts having arisen respecting the precise period at which the Property Tax expires, accord►ng to Act of Parliament, we lay before our Readers a correct copy of the clause, which fixes the day upon which it is to cease : Forty-third 6f George 111. cap. 122.--' 4 And be it furilwr enact , d, flat tLi, Act shall commen.e and t..Le tff.-ct trou► end after the firth day of April, one thousand and three, and shall continue to be in force during the re.ent . war, ani until the tith day of May next alter the latificittion of a definitive treaty of peace, and no longer." oMITHFIELD MARKET , NOVEMBER 411 Beef Si 01 to 66 0.1 I Veal 7s ud was 0.1 Mutton 5s Od to 6s od Park is Ud to 7s 4tl Beasts 29.30—Sheep and Lambs 1", - 3 , --Cslves too—Piro 420 HAY AND STRAW, PER 1 OAD. Meadow llsy 41 to 51 Os I (Joyce 61 Os to 71 Os Straw 11 126 to 21 Os. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, NOV. 28. We had a large supply of Wheat this morning trons Esscx, and a considerable quantity having been left over frt m last week's arrivals, occatlins ready sale for that article at a ie-line of 2% per quarter upon that of fine quality, and more upun the Wiener wrts. Barley is full 3e, per quarter dearer, and brisk sale at that ohm, sad having m minc an va yb e tly o e u rs r u s f uP it. ply Good cg that :)at an str is e g is. very per quarter higher.-... White Peas are rather dearer. la Gm p e p ss Buns, and eater articles, there is up *MOM