The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-14 00:00:00

THE 10N1.1.V IEtANDS. Gibraltar papers to the 18th ult. contain the fol lowing instrument, issued by Sir Thomas Mait land:— PJIIWI.AMATION. " His Excellency the Governor having maturely and deli berately considered the important question, how tar the corn monopoly, which has existed for centuries in these islands, shall he (lone away with, and having called to hk Mil the opinions of such persons in these islands who thought themselves competent to give any opinion on the subject, lie feels himself disposed, tlioikth with considerable doubt and difficulty on his part, to try the experiment of throwing open the commerce of this most im portant article of necessity. His Excellency does it with doubt and diiiiculty, becau.se he is convinced, generally speaking, tiat the wisest system of government is to adhere to what has been practically ascertained Ito be beneficial to the people, in lieu of setting up novel theoretical speculations. Anxtous, however, as Isis Excellency is to give a lair trial to what it is thought will prove ultimately beneficial to these Islands, and equally alive to the 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 pleased to proclaim the general inhumation, that on the Ist of July next, the commerce of grain of every kind shall be thrown open in these islands. llaving conic to this determination, his Excellency deers it to be his duty to state, that it is not his intention that govern ment should interfere in any manner (beyond what is hereafter mentioned) with the commerce of grain when once thrown open, $4l Ling 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 hand to prevent any scarcity, or any sudden or excessive rise in the price of corn, and as it must continue its assistance in providing for the inhabitants, should such high price be of any amtinuation. lie deems it absolutely necessary, to se cure the interests of government on one hand, and to protect the agricultural interests on the other, to adopt the following regu lations mid restrictions on this head : " 1. 'flint, upon all wheat imported into these islands for consumption, a duty of 4 scudi per saint shall be levied, if im ported in vessels under the BritiM or lonian flag, and 5 seudi per saint, if imported in foreign vessels. " Y. That, upon Indian corn in ported into these islands for consumption, a duty of 3 scudi per salm shall be levied, if Mt. per:eel in British or lonian vessels, and Z. if imported in foreign vessels, 3. That, upon all barley, rye. or other kinds used in making bread, a duty of 2i scuds, in British or lonian; and 3 in foreigm . All paste sour, ;email, or farsa, scudi. ITlie remainder of the proclamation relates entirely to the de tails of carrying this important measure into execution.) " By command of his Excellency, (Sigma) " RICHARD PLASKET. Dated Palace, Valetta, Jan. 24, 1t522." 1104.sTED WIIEd LAM 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 Pow edr, or any other name, except the fbilowing (CO I'Y)—VE N En LETTER. Sin—The Commissioners order, that no seizure of the article tailed Breakfast Powder be hereafter made twin persons who are net dealers in coffee, without spechd directions for that pur pose. 1 ant. Sir, your bumble servant, Ekcise °Mee London W. WARPLEY. zit March;lb2o. And after a trial to the Court of Exchequer, the officers on the town establishment having asked directions for their conduct in regard to what was called Radical Coffee, they were °Mecca, whilst other canal were depending, to seize all roasted and pnwilored grain, manufactured fur the purpose of imitating or resembling or serving as a substitute for (7offee, and kept or ex posed to sale, wherever it was found, and the, could aseertato the facts. THOMAS litlll'lON, Secretary. Excise Office, March f.'6, I b 24. 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. as upon the finer sort of leather of five times the value ; and as their Fhoes are twice as heavy as those generally worn by the ether classes, and various other leather goods are more generally used by them, they cannot be sup posed to use less than two thirds of the leather ma nufactured. The whole tax iv 600,0001., therefore they pay to Government 400,0001. To this is to be added the expense occasioned by the Excise restric tions to secure the collation 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 bs 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 Isl 3, pages 26, $9, 47, and 49, and Report of 1816, page 138.) A s the tux is paid on the rough article, before it goes from the tanner to the currier, or leatliut ter, the tanners must be supposed to have a prolft their extra capital and risk upon 800,00C1., which at 10 per cent. would be 80,0001., making the whole amount which must be paid by the curriers to the tanners 830,0001.; upon which sum the curricrs ulso must be supposed to lay another profit of 10 per cent. to the shoe-makers, tuaking 968,0001., upon which the shoe-makers or the artificers in leather cannot lay less than another 10 per cent., in..king tho whole 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-tax which is paid by the agriculturists to Goveronieut a. considerably less Unto the tax last ukaltionod. THE NATIONAL ur.(:ISTER The remaining one-third of the tax which is paid to Government by the other classes of society is 200,0001. gross, for which they of course pay is the same proportion as the before mentioned classes, that is, 5'32,4001. Can any tax be compared with this ? And is it extraordinary that the leather trade con tinues to decline, us shown by the last account of the produce of the leather-tax, (Iv ten years liet;)re the last additional tax was impos.A, and the nine years since that time, which were laid before Parlia ment, March 13, 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. W.—The following extract of a letter from China will show that the new discasJ so fetid in India, which has been called cholera, but which in fact is a spasmodic disease, with symptoms very different from those usually attendant on the cholera murLus of other climates, has spread its ra vages in the East:— " The cholera morbus has not yet visited China epide. mlcally, lint has, as far as I can learn, appeared in several provinces in a desultory manner, aunt carried off many of the Chinese. It has overrun Java, Sumatra, and several islands in the Indian ryrcluptlago, and made dreadful ravages amongst the Malays. Annul Batavia and Soma. bays it was particularly tleSttllCllVe.-4110 state of the mat Lets in China has been very nal Avon ratite to the spe culators from England. The alentt d policy of Great Bri. Mill, which allows the Americans to take from England every kind of goods,and which prohibits Englishmen from doing so, and also from staining their capital back to Eu rope by other ports than those of London, is every day inure and more a pparent. Trade here is v. - orse than bad. Articles of import tire scared) , 'steatite, with the excep tion of pepper, and a few articles of Straits produce; and Chinese produce is so extravagantly high, that were it not that people must speculate to get house their Muds, as the Company's treasure is shut (fur bill, un England), I do not believe that t pound of any thing but tea would be invested for England. The Company must have lost very considerably this year oil their cotton anti woollen cloths; the former is 111 vet y low, and the Americaus having cute picieiy overdone tire trade in the latter." VALENCIA, MARCH 9.7 .—Oar 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 afterwards a quarrel with other individuals of the same arm, at the gates of the University. The Alcalde of the nearest barrier, who endeavoured to restore tran quillity, was pelted with stones, as well as four soldiers of the regiment of Zamora, whom he had called to his assistance. In these circumstances, thirty soldiers with un officer appeared to check this tumult, and the students being confined fur a moment 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 " Riego fur ever !" to which they added the alarming expression, " the country is in danger !" and others of the same kind. Commandant General, the Political Chief, and the soldiers at whose head they walked, were pelted with stones amidst cries of " Riego fig ever !" The next day the Alcaile, who had so honourably dune 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 livenhoe-I, as a recompense, we suppose, fur his geueral adherence to the cause of the public. Mamma, Manias . 4 :l7.—sit duel has taken place this day between General Quiorga and ex-Deputy Moreno Guerra. It appears that the latter had insulted the general, in several letters which lie addressed to him. Only one of the pistols was loaded : on drawing to s, chance put into the heaths of Quiroga, who discharged it in the air. Attosouno, 111 anen 30.—We have received news from Constantinople, announcing that M. de Tutour Alitubourg, the French Ambassador, has received verbal promise of the satisfaction which lie had de manded with much dignity and energy, for the in sults (Aired to the French consular agents by the Turkish Commander-in-Chief in Syria and Cyprus, as well us fur the excesses and cruelties committed towards Christians of the countri.:s of the west, who arc under the protection of France; but his Excel lency demands a promise in writing. The subiects 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 have sustained fur suite: years past in the Levant will be made good. NenE ay RCI, MARCH 3 1 .—( Extradfrom a pri vate correspondence.)—lt is as..erted that the Court of Vienna will notify to the great Powers, that in consequence of the little success of the negotiations which it had carried on ut Constantinople, it had ceased to be mediator in the dilleren:es baween Russia and Turkey, reserving to itself the faculty of taking such measures as circumstances may o require. lit Utters from Constantinople say that the Grani imnr2diately go to Adrianople, there to act as Generalissimo of the Ottoman Empire. • A report (which ticket's confirmation) was in dr. dilation yesterday, that sonic warm skirmishes bad already taken place on the Pruth, between the Rub. sian and the Ottoman corps. More certain infer maim 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 Willie. A report is current that the Russian agent at Teheran has succeeded in concluding an oflensivo and defensive alliance with Persia; and it is even affirmed that u secret article of the treaty assures to the Schah the possessitm 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 efforts to coun teract the negociations of the Russian agent, will quit Teheran, where his presence would hence. forward ha of no advantage to the interest of his Government. _ COPENHAGEN, MARC* 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 back by Mr. Foster, whose return is immediately expected. During one of the late gales, the French pilot Sabole, in taking the Chestecfield Southampton packet (Capt S. Wood) into Havre Roads, fell over board. Mr. J. Wood (son of the captain) instantly threw himself into the sea, and afier a severe strug gle succeeded in reaching and supporting him until a bon front the windward picked them both up.-- The King of France, to distinguish this generous uct, has presented Air. J. Wood with a rich silver medal,accompanied with a most flattering certificate from the French Minister of Marine. On the 10th of March a mutiny broke nut among the Turkish garrison at Jassy, on which occasion the unfortunate city was plundered and set on fire. According to preceding news, massacres hail taken place at Bucharest on the 25th and 27th 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 have kept their word. It is estimated in the Hamburgh papers, that the number of lives lost by shipwreck on the coast of Jutland, in the recent storms, is nut less than 1,100. The Owen Glendower frigate, Captain the Hon. Robert Cavendish Spencer, is to take the Hun. T. Foster, .aiuister, to Copenhagen, with Sir George Naylor, to invest the King of Denmark with the Order of the Garter; that after the return of the Owen Glendower, she will be commissioned by Capt. the Hon. Henry buncan (lion. Captain Spencer's period of service will have expired), and fitted to take the Right Hun. George Canning to the go vernment of India ; and the service being performed, she will proceed thence to South America, whore Capt.Dunean is to command in the room oleo:Immo. dare Sir Thos. Hardy, whose three years are nearly expired. Tlie 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. Tlieto were found 27 chests, containing 500 musb(As, a great number of bayonets, JOO pistols, and L)/0 sabres. On Monday last, about twelve o'cl44,it,he ms ,l49rd• • Mayor proceeded in state from the Mansicni-hlltrie to Christchurch, Newoate•street, according to aukt . i . al custom, to hear the Spital Sermon, which was preached by the Bishop of LlandafF. The prayers were read by the Rev. Samuel Crowder, M.A. Vicar of Christchurch. The hymn was sung by the scho lars—the music by Mr. R. Glenn. A statement of the City Hospitals was read. On the service being ended, the procession returned to the Mansion-house, where a splendid entertainment was provided. In the evening, there was a grand ball in tho Egyptian Hall, which was tastefully ornamented. Among the company were the Spanish, Porttigncsc, and Swedish Ambassadors, several of the nubility, Muni hers of Parliament, &c. &c. The collector of customs, at Plymouth, in obedience to an order of Parliament, has set for London, to attend an inquiry into the Eddystone Light dui" which, from their heavy amount, are alleged to be injurious to shipping, masters preferring to remain at sea in dangerous weather, than submit to tit,. payment of their dues, end au exclude themselves from the security which that excellent harbour in such cases provides. The fidlowing singular advertisement appeared in the Evangelical - .11agacine:—" Wanted a mistr. so for the female tranele of a rising and respectable charity; she must nut be less than 25, and nut more than 50 years at age; unmarried atul withedl vhildren."