The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-15 00:00:00

TIIE lONIAN ISLANDS. Gibraltar papers to the 18th ult. contain the fol lowing instrutacitt, issued by Sir Thoina3 Mait land: " PItOCI.AMAT In N. His Excellency the Gavernor having tuattrely and deli- Innately considered the important queaioa, how far the corn monopoly, which has existed to: centuries in these islands, shall he dune away with, anal having called to his aid the opinions of such persons in these islands who thought themselves competent to give any opinion on the subject, he feels himself d'sposesl, though with considerable doubt and difficulty on his part, to try the experiment of throwing open the commerce of this most iin• portant article of necessity. His Excellency does it with doubt and difficulty, because he is convinced. generally speaking, that the wisest system of government is to adhere to what has been practically ascertained .10 be beneficial to the . people, in lieu of *mint; up novel theoretical speculations. Anxious, however, es his Excellency is to give a fair trial to what it is thought will prove ultimately beneficial to these Islands, and equally alive to (l:c necessity at the present moment of stretching any point that even hears the appearance of increasing either the commerce, or of giving employment to the lower classes of the people here, he is pleasal to proclaim for genetal information, that on the Ist ur July next, the commerce of grain or every kind shall b! thrown 6)3111 in these islands. Having conic t.. this determination. his Exeellency deems it to be his duty to state, that it is not his intention that govern ment should interfere in any manner (bovond what is hereafter mentioned) with the commerce of grain when once thrown open, tai long as the poorer classes of the inhabitants be supplied with bread at a fair and moderate rate; but as the government must keep a stock on band to prevent any scarcity, or any sudden or excessive rise in the price of corn, and as it must continue its assistance in providing fur the inhabitants, should such high juice be of any continuation, he deems it absolutely necessary, to se cure the interests cf government on one limo], and to protect the trlicultural interests on the other. to adopt the following regu lations and restrictions on this head . . . . _ " 1. That, upon all wheat imported into these islands for consumption, a duty of 4 scudi per s:dm shall be levied, if im ported in vessels under the British or lonian flag, and 5 scudi per salm. if imported in foreiga reacts. " t That, upon Indian corn imported into these islands for consumption, a duty oft scudi l.er salm shall be levied, if parted in British or lonian vessels, and I i if imported in foreign vessels, . . . . . " 3. That, upon all barley, rye, or other kinds used in making bread, a duty of 2} Deudi, in British or lonian; and 3 in fun 4. All paste flour, scintilla, or farsa, 6 sewn. (The remainder of the proclamation relate; entirely to the de tails of carrying this important ineaFure into execution.) •• By command of his Excellency, (Signed) " RICH AIM PLASKET. 6 6 Dated Palace, Valetta, Jan. 24, 1823." II(11VII. I) IVIII:71P LAID BEFORE THE HOUSE OF LORDS. No particular instructions have been given by the Commissioners of Excise to their officers respecting the seizure of Roasted Wheat, or other substances prepared or sold under the name of Breakfast l'ow edr, or any other name, except the following (COPY)—GENEItiI. ci R—The Commissiouers order, that no seizure of the article called Breakfast Powder be hereafter made trom persons who are not dialers in call: a, without special directions tor that pur Pthc• I :4111, Sir, your Maniac ScIN;11,1 Excise Office, Lemons W. NVA 2d March, iti2n. And atter a trial to the Court of Exchequer, the °facers on the town establishment having asked directions Mr their conduct in regard to what war crdiet.l Radical Coffee,-they were ordered, whilst other causes were depending, to seize all roasted and itowdeted grain, inanutiretured tor the purpose of imitating or resembling or serving us a substitute for Coffee. and kept or ex pmed to sale, wherever it was found. and they could etwertviu the facts. THOMAS BURTON, Secretary. Excise Office, Mardi Y 6. 18'12. ESTIMATE OF TILE BEARINGS OF THE LEA THER TAX UPON THE PUBLIC. The agriculturists being about half the whole population, might be supposed to consume about half the leather manufactured ; bat, as their shoes arc made of the coarsest and heaviest leather, on which the tax is the same per lb. us upon the finer sort of leather of five times the value ; and us their shoes are twice as heavy us those generally worn by the other classes, and varicus other leather goods are snore generally used by them, they cannot be sup posed to use less than two thirds of the leather ma nufactured. The whole tax is 600,0001., therefore they pay to Government 400,0001. To this is tube added the expenee-occasioned by the Excise restric ticns to secure the collection of the tax, which are stated, by the most respectable persons before the committees of the House of Commons on the leather tax, to be at least the whole amount of the tax, which is a real loss to the country of property to that amount, and must b., paid by the consumers of leather, making the amount so far paid, on account of the tax and restrictions, by the agricultural classes alone, 800,0001. (See Report of 1818, pages 16, - $9. 44, and 49, and Report of 1816, page 138.) — As the tux is paid on the rough article, before it goes from the tanner to the currier, or leather-cut- . ter, the tanners must b e su pp ose d t o h ave a profit ort their extra capital and risk upon 800,0001., which at 10 per cent. would be 80,0001., making the whole amount which must be paid by the curriers to the tanners 880,0001.; upon which sum the curriers also must be supposed to lay another profit of 10 per cent. to the shoe-makers, making 961,0001., upon which the shoe-makers or the artificers in leather cannot lay less than another 10 per cent., making the whale that must be paid by the agricultural classes 1,064,8001., being more than twice the amount of the late agricultural horse -tax, though the gross produce of this part of the leather-sax which is paid by the agricuitnrists to Government io isatisiderably l*ss than the tax kit utuutiull4.itt. TILE NATIONAL ItEGI6TEIt The remaining one-third of the tax which is paid to Government - by the other classes of society is 200,0901. gross, fi,r which they of course pay in the same proportioa as the betiwe mentioned classes, that is, 531,4001. Can any tax be compared with this ? And is it extraordinary that the leather trade con tinues to decline, as shown by the lust account of the produce of the leather-tax, for tcn years bolore the last additional tax was impose', and the able years since that time, which were laid before Parlia ment, starch 15, 1822, and that the trade should repeatedly complain, though leather is deemed a necessary of life, that, owing to the leather taxes and restrictions, leather goods are so high in price as greatly to lessen their consumption, and to under mine one of the most important staple manufactures of the country. CANTON, Nov. 20.—The following extract of a letter flora China will show that the new disease so fatal in India, which has been called chAdera, but which in tact is a spasmodic disease, with symptoms very different from those usually Intendant on the cholera morlias of other climates, has spreiul its ra vages in the East:- 64 The ceoiera nimbus has not yet visited China epide. mically, hut has, as far as I call learn, appeared in several provinces in a dr sithory 111:11111Vr, and curried off many of the Chinese. It has over; MI Java, Sumatra, and several islaiiits is; the Indian Archipelago, and matte dreadful ravages amongst the Malays. About Batavia and settee. hays it was particularly destructive.—The state of the markets in China has been very unthvouraule to tho site. crilaturs from Eugland. The absurd policy of Great Bri tain, which 'shoos the Americans to take from England every kind of goods,rnol w hick prohibits Englishmen from doing so, and also from sending their capital back to Esi. rope by other ;worts than those of London, is every day more and more a ppm. ut. Trade here is verse than bad. Articles of import ere scarcely saleable, with the excep tion of pepper, and a few erodes of Straits produce; and (Arnow pa - mince is so extravagantly high, that wet e it not that people must speculate to get home theta fuuds, as Use Company's treasure is shut (tor bills on Lergland), I do not beli..ve that a pound of any thing but l's would he invested f-rr England. The Company must have lost very considerably this year on their mato.' and woollen cloths; the fur no r us sn very low, and the Americans having GUM. pletely overileue the trade in the latter." VALENCIA, MARCH 27.—Our troubles do not cease. The day before yesterday a troop of students, seduced by the favourers of anarchy, appeared before a post of artillery, insulted it, and had of a quarrel with ether individuals of the same arm, at the gates of the University. The Alculde of the nearest barrier, who endeavoured to restore tran quillity, was pelted with stones, as tvell us four soldier.; of the regiment of Zamora, whom he had called to his assistance. In these circurustanees, thirty soldiers with an officer appeared to check this tumult, and the students being confined for u momeitt within the University, offered to the Political Chief, who immediately arrived, to be quiet, and not utter any more cries ; but scarcely did the Political Chief, trusting on this assurance, cause the soldiers to retire, when they again began to throw stones, with cries of " Iliego for ever !" to which they added the alarming expression, " the country is in danger !" and others of the same kind. The Commandant General, the Political Chief, and the soldiers at whose head they walked, were pelted with *testes amidst cries of " Ringo fin. ever !" The next day the Akade, who had so honourably done his duty was dismissed by the Municipality from his employment in the Secretary's Office, which he had filled for many years. This deserving individual has been deprived of his livelihood, as a recompense, we suppose, for his general adherence to the cause of the public. MADRID, MARSH 27.—A duel has taken place this day between General Quiorga and ex-Deputy Moreno Guerra. It appears that the latter bad insulted the general, in several letters which lie addressed to him. Only one of the pistols was loaded : ondraeing lo a, chance put Tutu the hand.:of Quiroga, who diseharged it ill the air.. Aussovurs, Manor' 30.—We have received news from Constantinople, announcing that M. de Tutnur Alaubourg, the French Ambassador, has received a vet bal promise or the satistation which he had de :minded with much dignity and energy, for the in sults oared to the French consular agents by the Turkish Commander-in-Chief in Syria and Cyprus, as well us fir the excesses and cruelties counnitted toward:: Christians of the countries of the west, who are under the protection td' France; but his Fleet- Lacy demands a promise in writing. The suleiects are, however, treated with much respect, as well at Constantinople as in the other parts of Turkey.— There is even reason to hope that the losses which the French merchants hay,: sustained fur some years past in the Levant wiil be made good. NtllikaUltJno, MAucrt 31.--(Estraelfreata pri vate correspundence4—lt is asserted that the Court of Vienna will notify to the gre a t Powers, that in consequence of the little success of the negotiations which it had carried un at Constantemae, it had ceased to be mediator in the ditleren , :es b...tevecit ltassia and Tetley, rem r‘ing to iescir the Mcalty of taking such sue.ssures cis eireumAauce,i way rolurre. LI. Letters from Constantinople say that the Gran I Vizier will immediately go to Adrianople, there t act as Generalissimo of the Ottoman EaTire. A report (which needs confirmation) was in cir culation yesterday, that sonic warns skirmishes had already taken place on the Pruth, between The Rus. shin and the Ottoman corps. More certain intim. oration is impatiently expected. We learn from Warsaw, that a considerable corps of Polish cavalry is to march to Lithuania. The Commander-in-Chief of these troops will have his head-quarters at %Vilna. A report is current that the Russian agent at Teheran has succeeded in concluding an offensive and defensive alliance with Persia ; and it is even affirmed that a secret article of the treaty assures to the Schuh the possession of Armenia, as soon as the Turks shall be expelled from it. If this important news is confirmed, it is supposed that the English resident, who has employed all his efliirts to coun teract the negociations of the Russian agent, will quit Teheran, where his presence would hence terward be of nu advantage to the interest of his Government. COPENHAGEN, Mancs 9.—lt is universally af• firmed here, that a close union has been concluded between Denmark and England, and that the final ratification and subscription will be brought buck by Mr. Foster, whose return is immediately expected. During one of the late gales, the * French pilot Subtle, in taking the Chutersild Southampton packet (Capt. S. Wood) into Havre Roads, fell over board. Mr. J. Wood (son or the captain) instantly threw himself into the sea, and after a severe strug gle sticeceded in reaching and supporting him until a boat from the windward picked them both up.— The King of France, to distinguish this generotoi act, has presented Mr. J. Wood with a rich silver • taedul, accompanied wiflt a most flattering certificate from the French Minister of Marine. On the 10th of March a mutiny broke out among the Turkish garrison ut Jassy, on which occasion the unfortunate city was plundered and set on fire. • According to preceding news, massacres had taken place at Bucharest on the 15th and .17th February; and in Jassy it was reported that the Turks intended to celebrate the 7th of March as the anniversary of the murder of their brethren by fire and sword in . that city ; it should seem, therefore, that they bavu kept their word. It is estimated in the Hamburgh parrs, that the number of lives lost by shipwreck on the coast of Jutland, in the recent storms, is not less than 1,500. The Omen Glendower frigate, Captain the Hun. Robert Cavendish Spencer, is to take the Hon. 'l'. Foster, minister, to Copenhagen, with Sir George Nayler, to invest the King of Denmark with the Order of the Garter; that utter the return of the Owen Glendower, she will be commissioned by Capt. the Hon. Henry Duncan (Ilan. Captain Spencer's period of service will have expired), and fitted to take the Right lion. George Canning to the go vernment of India; and the service being performed, she will proceed thence to South America, where Capt.Dunem is to command in the rootn of Commo dore Sir Thos. Hardy, whose three years arc nearly expired. The Active frigate Capt. Andrew King, it is said, is to take Sir T. Tyrwhitt to Lisbon, to invest the King of Portugal with the Order of the - Garter. The Paris papers mention the seizure of another secret depot of arms on the Sth inst. There were found 27 chests, containing 500 muskets, a great number of bayonets, 300 pistols, and LOU sabres. On Monday last, about twelve o'clock, the Lord Mayor proceeded in state from the Alanslon-house to Christchurch, Newgate-strect, according to annual custom, to hear the Spinal Sermon, which was preached be the Bishop of Llawldf. The prayers were read by the 11,,v. Samuel Crowder, M.A. Vicar of Christchurch. The hymn was sung by the Fho - 'Ars—the music by Mr. B. Glenn. A statement of the City Ilospitals was read. at the service being ended, the proce,sion returned to the Mansion-house, where a splendid entertainment was provided. In the evening there was a grand ball in the Egyptian Hal, which was tastefully ornamented. Among the company were the Spanish, Portuguese, and Swedish Ambassadors, several of the nobility, Mem bers of Parliament, &e &e. The collector of eustomg, at Plymouth, in obedience to an order of Purliament, has set ed . fur London, to attend an inquiry into dn. Eddystone Light does, which, from their heavy amount, are alleged to be injurious to shipping, masters preferring to remain at act in dangerous weat her, t han submit to the payment of their dues, and so exclude themselves front the security which that excellent harbour in such eases provides. The ft:flowing singular advertisement appeared in the Evaugdical Wanted a naive at thr the female 6rauch of a rising and r'erlera!►le charity; she most not be less than 23, and not noire than 50 years at aau ; unmarried and wiliest cisi4'd, tn."