The National Register. — London, England, 1814-12-25 00:00:00

"itl 141 JICATION A Duty upon national property. It is calculated that there are not less that nine millions of individuals interested directly or indirectly in the maintenance of the presettt 'to tl►eir national domains, and this is enoughto show that those titles must be iespected. Thursday further Trench papers arrived to the 20th, and also G(lman and Dutch Journals of a late date. The ac conn's tour Vienna disclose nothing of importance, and the fate of - Poland and Saxony is still alluded to, in a way which renders it probable that no final determination has been adopted with respect to either of these countries. A tenort of differences between our Minister at Vienna, and • he Em .peror of Russia, was again circulated on Thursday and the credit given to it caused a considerable depression in the public fund:. The private letter from which the report took vise states, " there has been a great coolness between the Emperor Alexander and Lord Castlereagh; so much so, that far several days the former did not see the latter. The sub .l( ct of disagteement is Poland, which it is understood the Hessian Monarch will in no way give. up for any other ar ramgement than that of being placed under a Eussian V ice roy. This, he declares, is bis uMinatunt : his Minister, 'Count Nesselrode, will not treat upon it, but refers the other Ministers to his Master, who will not listen to any re pre entations concerning this, with him, determined point. It is further stated, that a new Russian army of Co,ooo men has been organised to give force to this resolution—Prussia and Russia agree perfectly in their views. So far fi•lea the Emperor Alexander leaving Vienna, he' has openly dec!ared that le.ria ;s t quit it till every thing is arra:lged to his sa tisfaction." Dispatches from Ghent, ant}erstood to - be tlf great im portance, were received early on Monday :ncirning at the Foreign Office in Downing-street. In consequence of their arrival, a Council was summoned, and every Member of ihe Cabinet now in the country attenacti. After the Co . ancil Lad broken up, a Messenger was sent off with dispatches f o r the Commitsioners at Ghent. On 'Wednesday, Ministers were again *occupied with dis patches brought by Mr. Kaye from Lord Castlereagh, at Vi?nna. There was not time to collect the Whole of the Cabinet, nor was the Prince Regent in town, to take his Royal Highness's commands upon the nature of the reply to be sent to the dispatches.—Summonses were in consequence hued on 'Tuesday evening to all the Minister's, and Mes senger: were dispatched to them wherever they were, calling them to attend a meeting in an especial manner on Wed: ines...ay, on these important dispatches. The Earl of Liver pool had a consultation with the Prince Regent on the sub ject in the morning. At two o'clock the Noble Earl met the Cabinet Council at the Foreign Office, which was at tended by all the Cabinet Ministers. Thcy continued in close deliberation for upwards of two hours and a half. At the breaking up of the Council, a McsienLier was ordered to hold himself in readiness to proceed to Vienna.—Respect ing the purport of these dispatches, there can, of course, be nothing more than conjecture ; it has, however, been said to be found difficult to conciliate the views of Austria With those of other powers. Of four large ordriance transports which sailed from Ports mouth, with supplies of the most cvential importance to our army in Canada, not one arrived site : tws) were taken by Ar.rerican priv4tccrs a and twu were lost. R Edl _ BUROUUM OF SOUTMVARK. Thursd.” there - was a very nu.acrous meeting of the in habitants, convened under a requisition for two distinct ob jects: one Was to consider of a Petition against the Property Tax ; and the other was to consider the prop, iety of applying to Pailiament for the repeal of the 6th of the King, with re spect to the appointment of Commissioners for paving the Borough of Southwark. On the subject of t!..e Property Tax, several resolutions and a petition was read, nearly soniar to those which were passed in the City of London.—The resolutions were ab!y supported by Mr. Clarke and Mr. Braila. who dwelt at considerable length on the inequalities of the t. x, where people were assessed not really in proportion to !heir p7;,perties or income s , but often merely in proportion to the apiwarances • hey found it necessary to hold out in order to carry on fly.. • bu siness. The tax thus, in many cases, pressed nil' . rder on those who were poor and struggling than those WOO were opulent. It bad been stated that there was much stcreev in the proceedings before the Commi:sioners: mild not. however, conceive how secrecy was to be kept when a tax collector was present. As to the oath, they conceived it most unjust that a man shouid be obliged to take an oath against himself; and that not only his last shilling sh o uld be extorted frOnt him, but that he should also be obliged to swear that it was his last shilling.—The resolu tions 'and petition, after some discussion, were unanimously agreed to. A letter from Mr. Thornton was read by t‘e Chairman. which stated, that that Gent;eman was prevented by indis position from attending, but that he perfectly agreed with those who signed the req.sisition, that the people of this country bad a fair tight to expect that this tax should expire on the 6th of April next. On the resolution being read, for the petition to be pre ' sensed to Parliament by the representatives of the Borough, Mr. Calvert rote, and said, that if he bad any doubts in his own mind abont the injustice and impolicy of this tax, be should still conceive it his duty to bow to the decided opinion of his constituents. He, however, most heartily coincided in their opinion, and thought that the tax was most unequal and unconstitutional. it was unequal, as pressing mote severely On the poor than the rich, which was the very reverse of what was cmisidered the proper principle of taxation. It was up cons:itutional, as the subject was deprived of his money in an arbitrary way, and not allowed a f a ir appeal. The petition was ordered to be signed by the High Bailiff, and-by so many of the inhabitants as chose to sign it. On the question of the Commissibners for paving the 80. . rogh of Southwark, resolutions were proposed which bad for their object to apply to Pat Hameln, to repeal the act of the 6th of the King, as in consequence of that statue the Commissioners were not elected by the people, and their ac counts underwent no examination.—After a very long dis cussion, the resolutions were agreed to, and thanks were voted to the Chairman, and to their Representatives in PROF ERTY TAX.—On Thursday sennight the town of St. Ives, Huntingdon , liire, was thrown into a very scrions ferment, by the Commischmers of the Property 'fax (yield ing to the suggestion of the Inspector) notifying a considcra b:e intended advance in the usual assessment on property. When it became genet ally known for what purpose this meet ing of the Commissioner was held at the Crown Inn, more then 300 persons assembled, who rushing themselves into DEC..??.