The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-02 00:00:00

4 : V 2 m tr No. 547.--Vor.. XL RESOURCHS OF THE COUNTRY. PaOPORTION OF TI 111:BT AND RE. I OI,IOCES OF THIS COUh- TAY AT TNIN PRESENT AND FORMER PRIMUS. P TOM 31r. 1 7 ELL ows' Tract of " The Rights of Property vindicated against the Claims of Universal Suffrage." i " Upon the accession of George the First, in 1714, the debt amounted to 54, t 45,3631. ; the same debt, as it s►ood on the Ist of February, 1317, had accumulated to 819,5.16,9371. The reign of George I. embraced a period of 12 years, 10 months, and 10 days, during which the whole sums produced by the Customs was ;21.632,9851.,.and by the Fscise 50,421,4511. Now the articles subject to Customs and Excise arc each as the majority of a nation never purchase till they are provided with other commodities of more indispensable necessity. The increase of the former keeps pace with the increase of the national weaith, and exhibits a cer tain demonstration of that increase. " The Customs fur the year ending January the sth, 1816, ansaunted to 10,487,5221.; the Excise duties, during the saute interval, produced 26,562,4321.—the then existing war duties are included in this amount. Here the Customs for one year will be found to have pruduced nearly as much as they did in six years of the reign of George and the Excise. during one year of the present reign, ~amounted to a sum equal to about five.siaths of the total produce, during a period of more than twelve years in the above-mentioned reign The produce of the Stamps may not be thought to furnish so *ore a test of national wealth, as that of the Customs and Excise; but yet as they are an index of a multi. .:icrtous class Or dealings betwixt man and man, they may serve to elucidate the amount of the circulating wealth during any particular period. If we compare the amount uF the Stamp Ditty in• George. I. With that in the present reign, we shall be forcibly struck with the disparity, During the latter part of George I. the Stamps produced the annual sum of 132,6651.; whilst between the sth of Jan. 1816, and the sth of Jan, 1817, they amounted to 5,965,4341. or near six mill lions sterling. Notwithstanding the immense increase in the scale of the Stansp Duty, which has taken place it the present reit,m, we must recollect that it is the in creased opulence and multiplied dealings of the country which have enabled it to hear this increase; and it must rit the sante time be considered, that though the pay ment of the duty is compulsory upon particular legal and commercial transactions, those transactions them selves are optional ; and that therefore the payment of the duty itself being so far spontaneous, the increase on that duty can be owing to nothing but the prosperity • of the country. The increased revenue of the Post Mice furnishes a signal proof not only of the increased bat of the increased wealth of the country within the last century. In the four last years of George I. the Pest o:Ece produced an average of 75,3451. in the ye:ir. In the year ending Ole sth or .lanuay 18; 7, the sat sour of revenue yielded no less than i,416,0001. Here we have notch more thau a decuple increase, and in a species of voluntary pay ment, which furnishes a striking criterion of afflueace. A national debt must be considered great be small, ac cording to the wealth the people by whom it has been incurred, unit oat of which it is to be paid. A debt of ole million to a hour. country may be mare than a debt of ten millions to a rich ; as one individual may be teach less distressed by a debt of a thousand, than ano ti,er may by a debt of one hundred, or even only ten pounds." By this it typcars, that whereas the national debt has increased slime the rei...rn of Gest. I. to nearly sixteen times what it tliva was—the Customs have iitereasel seven timnes—the Ex.:ise to something more than ten times—and the Post GM.:o to eghte.n times thc;c I:ftuer amounts. ti 51 t. a Ai 1: ti ~. tl A. P n tl is 1, d t! 1. P in tl fi tl P tu :5 In 'V ti 1 ic tl S b; 1t li, ill is LI U I GI 111 al sc t 1 tl 1, c, v, C .1 1 1 , 1 u n C. i . u C' t'l 1 I. t I ationkt Art itittr+ Our Zinn, Comnittition anb if atul. SUNDAY, AUGUST %, 1818. CONGRATULAiORY ADDRESSES. Monday about two o'clock the Lord Mayor, attended by his Household in full state, anti accompanied by Sir John Earner, Sir James Shaw, Sir C. S. Hunter, Mr. Alderman Scholey, Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Al derman Goodbehere, Mr. Alderman Bridges, Mr. Al derman Thorp, the Sheriffs; the several City Oaken, and fitly-seven of the Members of the Court of Com mon Council, set off from Guildhall and proceeded to Carlton house, where, shortly F.lker their arrival, they were introduced to his Royal Highness the Prince Re gent sitting on the Throne, and presented the following Address as agreed to at the last Court, upon the Mar riages of their Royal Highnesses the Dikes of Clarence and Kent:— To his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Regent of the Wilted Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The humble and loyal Address of the Lord :4/or. Alder men. and Commons of the City of Leadoff. 113 Couution Council assembled. May it please your Royal Highness. We, his Majesty's most dutifitl and loyal %toots, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London. in COIIIII2OTI Council assembled. humbly approach year Royal Highness with unfeigned congratulations on this recent marriages of your Royal Brothers—the Duke of Clarence with the Princess of Saxe Meiningen, eldest daughter of the the • g Duke of Saga Meiniogen i and the Duke of Kent with the t' ri ntxu of Leiningeo. Consort of the late Prince of Lcinin.r * 'en sister of the reigning Duke of Sage Cobourg. and of his Royal Highness Mace Leopold of Sage Cobourg. We rejoice in every occurrence which arrerigsheas our reliance in the preservation and coot/nuance of the inestimable bleatings we en. joy, under the auspicious Govemment of the Howe of Brunswick; nod we confidently hope and trust that these happy alliances will increiise the firm and loyal attachment of the people of the realms to his M:,- jesty's Crown and Government; and Ono your Royal Highness will deny;. much additional felicity from tlrm propitious events. Signed by Order - of the Court. HitsaY wuoartioarx. To which his Royal Highness was plassed to return the following most gracious Answer : I thank you for your I. st and dutiful Addreav—it 44 highly ratis fiwwry to me to rot-airs this tratinvony of you! sengmotor on an oz. rusion so interesting to tue and in Lundy, sad solltipirtant to the nation. The Lord Mayor and the Members of the Corporation afterwards proceeded to the residence of ,be Duke and Duchess of Clarence ; where the Recorder read the Ad. d:-.2sses of Congratulation on their present inarriase; to which they returned suitablt: answers. They ilex' proceeded to Kensington Palacv ; anti on their arrival, were conducted into the North Library, where the buhe and Duchess of Kent were in readiness to receive them ; and the Record'm read an Address to the Duke ; to which his Royal Highness returned an appropriate re ply. The Learned Gentleman then rend an Address to the Duchess ; and, previous to her Royal Highness making a reply, the Duke addressed the assemblage, and said, the Duchess did not read the English language very well, but she would attempt it. Her Royal High ness then delivered her reply in a manner to be clearly understood. They were most graciously received toy all these august Personages, and had the honour to kiss both the Duchesses' hands. Toe QUEEN —The following. painful statement pre pares us ti►r a loss which will be deeply felt by all who know how inestimable a blessing to a nation, is the ex ample of fcmale virtue on the throne. It is asserted, we believe on too good authority, that the illness of her Majesty k a total decay of nature, and a daily in creasing morbidity in all those parts, the energy, or at 'ea.:: the regular motion of which, is necessary to the fitnctions of life. What usually occurs in this disease, and which is always the last sialet . of borssanc time since eoliths:aced in her Majesti - .... tl,t7i of water has already accutnulated in the aisaisa-h. Tuesday a Meeting was held at the .Privy eonncil Oilice, for the purpose of opening tho Commission in stituted fir the Erection of New Church. The Com missioners are :—The Archbishops of graterbury and York ; the Bishops of London, Winebs, Lineoln anti Chester; Dr. Ireland, Dean Westmin ster ; Dr. Putt, Archdeacon of Looao‘f v. G. 0. Cambrilge, Atch.leacon of Middies - ex ; H. Wol- - Liston, Arch:x.l,lot of Essex ; J Eyre, Art hdeacon of Nottingham ; E. Outran', Archdeacon of Derby; Drs. Mant, Wordsworth, and 1). Whitaker • and the Rev. J. licatilam ; the Lord Chancellor; Lords Harrowhy, Liverpool, 1-I.lrdwicke. Sidmouth, OrasiSille ' Kenyon, and Lord Colchester ; the Speaker ; Sigs.W,Seott and I. ; and Messrs. Vansittert, Bashotikfluslis bUll, Burton, Stephenson, attic Watson,. • The Earl of Pembroke is named as tin ' likely to succeed Sir Charles Stuart as British rat Par s. • ••.• PRICE 90. AGRICULTURAL REPORZ Theiharm is dissolved, a re-action has succeeded, and, in despite of the ice islands, and the conjecttute of the learned, we have at length and in turn eejoved a summer as high in temperature as any, or must of dame, which used to warm our ancestors. I larvest commcnc ed, some ten days or a fortnight since, in the south wes tern counties, and will soon become geueral. The lung continued drought has greatly injured all the crops,__ wheat, it is to be hoped, least ofall, as most able to endure drought, and generally productive, in dry sea sons. In some, perhaps many parts, the wheat will be undoubtedly a greet crop in others, middling, below an average ; and, upon scalding gravels, and weok arid soils, the produce will be light. The wheat plant has been universally tinged with maw, in consequence of atmospheric vicissitude and drought ; and considerable quantities of blighted and smutted wheat may be ex pected. The whole of the spring crops—barley, oats, beans, peas, will be short, throughout England ; in some parts the barley will barely return seed. On the other hand, letters from various districts in Scotland represent terley and oats as probable to be the best orops, the wheats not promising to reach an average.— Hay, of every species, well got, but u n i versa ll y light ; and green food never more scarce, afronling a cheerless prospect for winter. They who, having land well adapted, stocked it with lucerne, %vat have ample rea men to appland their fezesight and economy. Little pre gress has been yet made in turnip sowing, for went of rain ; and great rut of the plane:, already above ground, have perished, with the execution of wine of the tiortherat counties, where sense sheeers having oppor tueely fallen, large breadths of tuteips have been sown, and are in a healeliy and 'flatirishinf state. Hops and fruit, particularly the oreluttid fruits, promise to be most abundant, equal to the most productive seasons ; pears and plums arc said to he exceptio n e. Ne atl y h op plantations are as clean and Fire, in leaf and bine, as the oldest plantix has wituiesed.. The potatoe crap greatly in want of raw. Tho weather has been ee tremely favourable ehr the sheep shearing, and the el:,) will be most valuable, as wool is perhaps higher in priest than ever known before, and still apparently ailvateirig. Both fat cattle and lean somewhat lower ; stores consie derably so, on account of the want of thud. Pige ser.ree and dear. Mitch and in calf cows greatly in request ; and horses, of good quality, at extremely high prices. The demand from abroad fur English well bred min-es ' has been greater, within the last twelve months, than ever before experienced.—Middlesex, July 20. Letters, dated Monte Video, the I ith and 12th cf April, state, that " the Government of Buenos-Ayres had marched a division of about '2,000 men, under the command of Balcarcel, to attack and destroy the force which Artigas commanded at Baxada de Santa Fe. which expedition was completely routed and defeated by the force of Artigas. Ha'carrel, having left his artillery and baggage behind him. retreated, with only 700 men, to St. Niel)lay, about 50 leagues distant from the capital. To this information is added, that the people of Santa Fe have declared themselves against those of Duenos-Ayres; that the troops of Belgranc, having revolted, had taken Guemes, which was occu pied by a body of the patriots, where, it is also said, Belgrano was taken ; and that this force, having united with Artigas, had prepared to oppose itself to the Go vernment of Buenos-Ayres. This TAWS has occasioned the greatest sorrow to some, and the greatest conster nation to others. Such is the state of anarchy in the revolted provinces of Spanish America, though the par tisans of disorder and insurrection continue to assert that independence is firmly established." The Emperor Alcsancler has it in contemplation to destroy several of the Russian fbrtresses towards the Turkish frontier: justly conceiving the greater portion of them not worth the expense of keeping up, Doubts are even entertained as to the exp of restoring the ruined works of the celebrated ()ckaahop. coif, to acquire which cost the Russian Govern..astrt re ninny thousand , of its bravest soldiers. It state: Ciat M:. Canning is oonfined by a Awry* w ._.4 hat Wa . r is attack of the g out, which has prevented his atterslease at th e f mi ' e ' 3 y i r bo th his feet. lair. Oithe Cabinet this week. that played the trick on the Cornwall Banks, was 'andel at Brest. He had with him about vo g s. and u large lantity of foreigt eos i n ;he is sail have obtained About 1,0001. altogether. • 0 r= la{ .i . ro k:4l . , • k i .. 'F.:! , Itsv.- . „. .„, . .. coit. ...,,,.; ~