The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-10-14 00:00:00

• . • THE STATE ABSTRACT of the NitT PRODUCE of the REVENUE or oRkATBRITAII 4 I, is the Years ended 10th Oet. 1822, and . 10th Oct. 1893, distiogilshlrg the Quarters. Quarters 'ended sth January.' sth April, sth July, 10th October ( Year ended • 1812 1023 1822 1822 0ct.10,1822. ---- --.-...--- X I' • A' € .e Customs Fxe ise Stamps Taxes under the Management of the Commissioners of 'rave., includlr g Arrears of Property I 2,755.134 080,916 2,057.721 810,136 7,206,910 Pc-t Office ls. PO. Duty on Pensions, and 4s. in the .L' on Pert.i. 115, &C I 1.97, 5 14 703 I 20.004 16,431 73,308 Hackney Coaches, and Hawkers spit Pedlars...-. t.9.750 6,300 i 0,700 MOW 50,930 Crcwn Lands . 407 .. .. 406 973 Small Branches of the King's Hereditary Revenue 61.44e6 9W 4.973 ((00 12,1379 Surplus Fees, Regtilated Public 011ie. s.. 42.148 I 8.910 • 3,680 10,000 61,044 .--.-- -- -- - .....---.--- ---- - - Total Ordinary Ordinary Revenue 13,538.113 I 10,869.1.41 12,766.041 13,160.611 50,3 4,784 import and other Monies .26,164 33,689 00,689/ 59,708 ------- ------- -- 186,310 Total Revenue 13.361,91'7 I 111,903.360 . 12,833,438 13.919,809 50,521,093 Applied es Consnlida.ed Fund 11,5(19.943 10,785,930 i 12,001,188 10.995,726 45,353,703 To pay off Exchequer hills char;, .1 on the Areual Duties 1,264.010 fl 1.670 I 826,612 1,828,810 4,032,002 Arplied astart of the Ways act! Means of the Year 729.5 : 14 5.940 , 4.040 393.973 1,133.387 ------,--..-. -.----. Total 13.364.287 I 10 903 AGO 12,033.430 ' 13.219.0119 60.521.094 Quarters ended sth Jemmy,' sth April, sth July, 10th October, Year ended 1823 1• 1t 4 23 1893 1023 0ct.10,18.23. Customs 2.406 238 2,108.408 2,093.410 3,348,257 9.930,323 Excise 8 tamps 1,450,987 1,373.854 1,020,011 1,011,945 0,258,797 Taxes ander the Management of the Commissioners of Taxes. including Arrears of Property 2,545.231 851,764 2,631.415 749,614 0,768,024 Post office 324,000 330,000 335,000 3C3.000 1,350,000 is. Cd. Duty on Pensions, and 4s. in the ,t onPensions, &e 16.t.'02 19,167 12,471 16,073 63,693 Hackney Coaches, and Hawkers and Pedlars. Crown Lands . 400 .. .. 486 966 $ll , llll r: r ni , chls of the King's llerei'itary Revenue. 3.092 4 2,274 .. • • 5,371 Surp!us Feeti, Regulated Public Offices. 31.070 i - 7.210 133 171 39,490 - ----- ---- TAal Ordinary Revenue 13,096,705 10,563,372 I 12,319.3i12 12,939.904 48,017,7113 Import and other Monies 67,e01 I 44,739 73,393 192.2 1 16 309 - 409 --- . •.--- -- Total Revenue 13.162,706 10,6418,104 19,394,745 I 13,061,65 e 43,227,103 ---- Applied as Consolidated Fund 12,301,754 9,964.150 I /4,17.006 11.330.940 41,143.740 To pay off Exchequer Bills chareed on the Annual Duties 232.923 130.011 843.756 1,710,713 2.962,739 Applied as part of the Ways and Means of the Year....• • 60!..727 507,953 1.120,603 --- Total 13,162.706 I 10.608,104 12,394,745 i 13.061,550 49,227,105 FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE PARIS PAPERS OF SATURDAY. Homo ; the Count of BergiJa, Master of the Horse ; and the Duke derinfautado, Couttnandsnt of the Royal Guard." (FROM THR ETnt Ls.) PARSE, OCT. 11.—Sir Wll2ourt has left Wheal tar for Madrid, in consequence of orders from his 6 0ear a• meet to repair thither when the King should be at liberty. PORT ST. MARI, OCT. 2.—This morning, at eleven, there was a solemn Te Deans at the Cathedral of Santa blaria, at which the King, the Royal Family, and the Duke d'Angouleme attended. All the Officers and the heads of the Administrative Department were presented by his Royal Highness to the King. At four in the afternoon the King with his whole Court set out for Seville. Alonat•igneur accompanied him some distance, riding at the side of his carriage. During his stay here the King made no sort of public deelaration. He merely protested against all acts which were forced upon him, or into which he was betrayed at Cadiz. His Majesty approved of the whole conduct of the Regency. The Duke del Infantado was appointed to the command of all the troops that escorted the King. Our troops are still on board the fleet, the weather not having permitted them to disembark. Count Bourbon, Bussett, and many other general officers are setting out this morning for France. MADRID, OCT. s.—Don Victor Saez, Secretary for Fo reign A ff airs, has written as follow s, to Don Louis Salazar, Secretary of the Navy, under date of Oct. I : " The King, my master, has directed that I should trans mit to you the following Decree: — That the affairs of the nation may suffer no delay during my stay here, 1 anthori , e you as my Principal Se cretary or State, to dispatch all business that may present itself. You will consult with the other Secretaries of State until such time as I, the King, shall Dave returned to Madrid.—God preserve, &A." ' Don Victor Saez charged the Secretary to inform the Regency that he bad resumed the reins of Government, and that be highly approved of the zeal, the prudence, and the justice with which they governed the nation in Isis Majesty's name. • (FROM THE CONSTITUTIONNEL.) It is reported that the last estafette from Spain has brought a declaration of King Ferdinand, in which he proclaims a general amnesty, without any exception. COURT OF CASSATION— PARIS. A case of considerable interest was yesterday submitted to the judgment of the Criminal Section of this Court. The circumstances of the case were these: —At the corn. mencement of the Spauish war, there appeared in a paper pelished at Marseilles called L' lndicateur do Commerce, the following paragraph—" Letters from Landon say that there are now building, in the Thames, a number of steam boats, of the best construction for sailing, intended to be used as Spanish corsairs. These may be easily directed at will in all directions, and are therefore likely to prove very dangerous to our commerce." This article the King's Procureur at Marseilles denonn- lied upon three grounds; first, as a slander upon the Government of the King of England, by insinuating that it would violate its neutrality; secondly, as calculated to distract and alarm commerce by false alarms; and lastly, as being published in direct contravention of the law of the 9th of June 1819. The Tsibunal of Marseilles upon this accusation condemeed the Si , ur Terrason to forty-five' days' imprisonment, and a fine of 300 francs, " for having ventured upon politics, without having obtained the sanction, or entered into the securities prescribed by law." The paper professed to be only a "maritime and commercial Journal." Upon appeal to the Court Royal of Aix, this Court in audience, formed of the Members of the Civil and Correctional Chambers, reversed the decree of the Court ' below. The foundation of their judgment was, " that the article in question could not be fairly called a political one." The Procureur-tieneral of Aix in his turn, appealed to the Court of Cessation. The result has been the failure of his application, and consequently the affirmation of the decree of the Court of Aix. It was held that that Court were properly judge. of the fact, and as they load found 1 that the article in question could not come under the head of politics, there was consequently no violation of any law. FRENCH FUNDS.PARMI, OCT. 11.—Five per Cents. opened at 90.60, ; highest 90, 70. ; lowest 90. 40. ; closed, at 90. 70. Bank Stock, 1,605 ; Neapolitan 5 per Cents. 77i. Exchange ou London, one month, 25. SO. ; three months, 25. 60. There were some errors in the statement from the Paris Journals of Friday (in our Paper of yesterday), relative to the distnissalkand appointments made by the King of Spain. It should have read thins Some dismissals haVY ,taken place. Such are those of the Count of Palatal, Commandant of the Royal Geard ; the Grand Major Domo, Santa Cruz; the Master of the Horse, Altamita ; and the Governor of the Palace, Copps% " The Count de la Puebla is appointed Grand Major MA ARR. DVS. I I ...DO)lill U 0 ... WeteffOrd.. •—1 0 ...G tic J ersry I 0.... Liston I 0 ...0 ot tettberg 2 DUE. I AIR. 0. ...Holland 0 o...afambro 1 I I.... France 0 0 ...Flanders 0 0 PRICE OF STOCKS TIM Raul:stock •24:x} 3 per Ct. Red 931 9•d; 3 p.Ct.Cons 31 per Cent.. 4 per Cents. 1 0 011. New Fours ......... 104 10311 Tong Ann.... ...911-16 211 Imp. 3 per t7t B3l i DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK. liblia Stock Ditto S ndt 71 73 Ex.11i11.1(1. (404;I 39itu. 10001. --SOUL... 40 41 49 pm Smell...—s 40 npm Lottery Tickets.. ...171. 19s. Con. for ... 83111 rke *tattionast. TUESDAY EVENINO, OCTOBER 14, 11523. STOCK Even.% NG E, 13 o'C LOC K.— Consols opened this morning at SM, at which price they have remained. Most of the parties in the above market are busy in snaking ep their accounts against Thursday, which is settling day. The report which had prevailed that the King of Spain had ratified the Spanish Loan, is premature; but it is expected that this event will take place, as the King's Government will soon be in want of a Loan to a large amount, and they will throw out the bait to ratify the old one, with a view to facilitate the contract for a new one.—We do not bear of any express from Paris. FOR MN PuNDS.—The most. busiress doing this morn ing is in the I'oyais market, in which there was a great bustle, owing to the New Poyais Loan being brought forward. There was, respecting► this, some difference of opinion; hut the Contractor of the New Loan notified in the market that he was ready to discount the first three dividends at the rate of 4 per cent., which it is understood would be profitable to the purchasers. Spanish Bonds have somewhat lowered since yesterday ; Colombian retain their price. In all other foreign securities there is little doing. New Spanish, 271---0111, 811—Colom bian, 57i —French Scrip, 24 —Poyais, 11 to 15. On his presentation of the last budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer boasted that he should have half a million in hand, of which sum lie would devote one half for the purpose of discharging part of the unfounded debt- But if we may judge of the statement of the revenue, as just published by authority, 'he will find that he has mind calmed a little upon the effect to be produced by the remission, as it •is called, of taxation. In a system of Finance, which was founded upon equitable principles, a Minister might fairly calculate, that the increase of consumption, would compensate the revenue, for a decrease of the duty; and our new race of political economists, having adopted the principle in part, are surprised to find the theory at variance with the expected result. The sum. however levied upon the industry and enterprize of the people of England, is so enormous, so far beyond the real ability of the people at large to contribute, that no prin . ciple but that of the determination to have it, can be ap plied. In this state of things, what is paid, is no evidence of what the people can pay. What is obtained, is no evi dente of what ought to be obtained ; and all calculations depend so much upon contingencies, that disappointment is he only thing certain with the calculators. The system of extortion is so perfect, the power of the extor r tors so absolute, that while any thing remains in the possession of the people, the revenue most be paid. Private debts ' rent, and even tythes, mast give way to the collection o the taxes. The summary means of seizing property, and the watchful eye which tbeState keeps upon its eontri betors, leaves no hope of escape from the pressure, but io 'MAN. the utter inability to contribute any longer. It matters not to our good masters how many are ruined in the vain attempt to fulfil their inexorable demands. One victim succeeds to another. Property changes hands with amaz ing rapidity. It Is, in fact, only held in trust to supply the wants of the ministry; and the temporary stewards of the Pitt system find that it grudges them bread and water for their support. To talk of the prosperity of such a system of finance, is necessarily to talk of the injary of the people; for that people must be poor,which has, perforce,to fill so rich a treasury. Instead, therefore, of thinking with some of our cotemporaries that it is any mischief to see the revenue decline, we should not be sorry to see it decline a great deal lower. We should think it displayed an effort on the part of the people to relieve themselves—to repeal the Excise Laws, by declining to consume excisable articles— and to reduce the tax-eaters to more moderate appetites ; which can only be done, by not permitting them to have so much to devour. It is an old maxim in politics, that s Minister finds no limits to his exp-nces, but in his power to draw upon the people. All that he can get, he can easily spend; and the dexterity of Ministerial excuses for .extravagance have become proverbial. An English Minis ter, indeed, has not the usual curb of State Financiers.— He is not limited in his expenditure ,by the proceeds of the revenue, enormous as it is. He has the power of issuing Exchequer Bills, to any amount, and at his own pleasure. He may thus anticipate the revenue of a quarter, or of a year ;as the borrowing system has anticipated the resources of future generations; and in the perplexity of such arrangements, nothing is known, but that Ministers make larger fortunes, in a few years of official duty than the saving of all their kkoten emoluments could account for. They seem to be in the possession of the philosopher's stone. All they touch is transmuted into gold ; and they have a knack of emptying the pockets of other people into their own. Every one allows that the distresses and diffi. culties of the country during the last war, were beyond - what bad ever before been experienced. Yet Min'sters never made greater fortunes, with one exception, than due ; ing that period. No Chancellor was ever so rich as Lord I Eldon. Never did the fees of office flow more freely than into his distended bags. Never did men thrive better than the manacers of the Pitt system. Its great author had an ambition beyond the accumulation of treasure, or he might have been a second Qum. Had Ilarry Dundas been in Pitt's situation, he would have scraped money together, to have bought " Auld Iteekie" in fee simple; and then held up his hand in the Cabinet, in support of a passage in a King's speech, commiserating the distresses of his good and loyal subjects. How the system works, has been well explained in many instances ; but as " the thing" cannot be too well understood, we shall make no apology for an extract from a work on relative taxation, recently pub- lished by Mr. Vaux,—to shew that one portion of the people may be well contented with a system which destroys the other. The boys and the frogs had different feelings, when the former thought it glorious sport, to pelt the others to death. " If a tiovernment require a yearly revenue of 54 mil lions, it must be raised by taxes; and if one fourth of the community be exempt from these taxes, though squally enjoying all the advantages of the other three fourths, it is very obvious that the latter are unfairly dealt with; and that they pay to the other fourth 13 millions and a half annually ; being the sum which this favoured fourth should pay yearly for the support of the State. It is true this sum does not go directly into its pockets, as it is paid to Government ; but it is virtually paid to it. since it is paid for it. The persons constituting this fourth, there.. fore, who ought to pay, but who are exempted from pay ment, actually strip the other three fourths of thirteen millions and • half a year ; because they save thirteen millions and a half by the tax levied on the latter." Mr. Vane adds, " the government gains nothing by this transaction ; fur thirteen millions are only thirteen millions by whomsoever possessed." But Mr. Vatic. on reflection, will discover that the Government and its agents are the favoured fourth who not only get their share of the taxation paid by other people, but ac tually devour a great portion of the contributions into the bargain. This is the result of the system which " works so well in practice." The state of Spain is so singular, that although but little further open resistance can be expected to the temporary re-establishment of despotism, yet a deep anxiety prevails to ascertain what direction the course of tyranny will take• The anxiety on this I►ead is, perhaps, greater than what existed with respect to the issue of the war; as the result seemed to many too evident to be questionable; and the hopes of the most ardent were chastised by their apprehen sions. There are reports of an expectation that Ferdinand will be faithful to his word, and respect the principles of the Constitution. A proclamation is said to have been published by him on his departure from Cadis, to this effect : but we have no such expectations; and only look to a reaction on the part of the public in favour of the Constitution, when the hand of oppression becomes again too heavy to be borne. There is a reason shy the King should affect the lan guage of moderation and respect for liberal opinions. There remains to be subduel, or to he cajoled, Mina, Roten, I.lobera, and the Ktnpecinado. Catalonia is to be reduced ; and while these objects remain to be accomplished, there can be no doubt that the French will advise Ferdinand to be gracious in his expressions, and liberal In his conduct. We learn from good authority, that some of the Lega tions here receive.d yesterday Expresses from Paris, an. nonneing that Ferdin.tnd has issued a Proclamation, offer. ing a general amnesty, continuing to the military their respective ranks, anti acknowledging all the debts con trscted by the Constitutional Government. The Ultras, we understand, are in the utmost rage at this measure.— Morning Chron.) INSURRECTION IN DEMARARY. The reported insurrection at Demarary appears, as we expected it would, to hive been very much exagzeratetl. Advices from that colony of the 22d August, received by way of Barbadoes, state that the number of the insnrgerit negroes did not exceed 1 500, and that after they had berm dispers-d by the soldiery, the Governor issued a proclamat tion, offering pardon to all who would return to their d u : r (with the exception of the ringleaders); upon which the insurrection was suppressed. Since the above was composed, we have received a mid of the Demarary and Earegrreso Royal Gazette of the 22 . ,1 of August, containing the Proclamations anti coimannicat tions of Niajor-tieneral Murray, respecting the insurrec. lion. By these it appears that on the 19. h his Excellent.- declared the colony to be under Martial law; and on the 20th, by another proclamation, notified to that part of the Slave Vopulation which c tntaitied faithful and obedient to tin it masters,'li4 various measures Wefti I contemplation bv hi s Nlajes,:y'a Government for meliorating their condition, and for progressively qualifying them for an extension of privileges; but that any general misconduct or acts of in suborifitia ion, similar to those evinced by the unfor tunately misguided Slaves on some of the estates to windward, could not fail to render the proposed Inca cures abortive, and disqualify theta from benefi:tinz by the favourab:e disposition of the British Government. On the 22.1 his Excellency, in a communication dated Head Quarters, at Camp Home, informed the public of the success which had attended the operations against the revolted negroes on the east coast of the colony in which quarter alone the spirit of rebellion had been openlr manifested. On the Monday Melo preceding, detachment s of the 21st Fusiliers, and lit West India Regiments, con t . mended by Capt. Stewart of the latter corps, came up with the Rebels at Plantation tVittenburg, and after a short en. gagemeut,in which 1 of them were killed and wounded, compelled them to retire, without any lass on the part of the troops. On this occasion, however, Air. Van Waterscliont of Plantation Plaisaoce received a wound in the leg, from a cross fire on the road. The next more• ing. a large body of the revolters, (between seven and eight hundred) well armed, commenced an attack on a small party under the command of Lieutenant Brady of the 21st, at Plantation Douclifour, and attempted to surround him; but lie effected his retreat, in excellent order, killing and wounding from 10 to 15, without &nyl on on his side.On Wednesday morning the rebels being still is the vicinity of his post, sod at the bridge of Plantatio n Bes hive, Lieutenant Brady attacked a party posted to imped e hie advance, killing six, and causing the main boa t s is retreat with precipitation. On the same morning, a detachment of the George-town Militia, under the coin. mind of Captain Croal, came up with a strong party of the rebels at Plantation Elizabeth Hall, and forced area to retreat with the loss of above 40 killed and wasp wounded. A strong detachment of the Fusiliers and Al Lieutenant Colonel Leahy, of the 21st. having proceeded up the coast on Tuesday evening, releasing the while people on the estates from the stocks, in effecting which ea one plantation, five or six of the rebels were killed, the party arrived about 3 o'clock in the morning at Plantation Batchelor's Adventure, which was found to be the res. dezvous of the disaffected, in number considerably above 1500. As day light began to break, the fronts of two considerable bodies were discovered on the bridgcs to the right and to the left of the detachment, amounting to about one thousand each, all armed, mostly with cut•faeses ant bayonets fixed npou poles ; they !did not appear to have more than one hundred stand of arias, and some pistols.— The Lieut-Colonel having in vain attempted to induce hew to lay down their arms, charged the bodies simultaneously, and dispersed them with the loss of from 150 to 200. 4.h the side of the troops there was only one rifleman slightly wounded. The detachment, then, resumed its march fir Maheica, where it arrived late in the afternoon of %Verities. day, having visited all the estates ou the road, and liberated the white people who had been confined in the stock. The sudden check which the Rebels experienced at all points, had, it is stated, the beat effect ; their movements were undecided, their spirits shaken, —and a returning sense of duty was manifest. log itself. Every thing bore the appearance of approaching tranquillity; and the Lommaoder-in-Chiet subjoins, that since the above intimation had gone to press, lie had received information that the greater part of the Insurgents along the coast had laid-down their arms and tendered their submission. _ . In another Proclamation, dated August 23d. his Excd lency olfers a full and free pardon to all slaves then is arms, provided they shall not have been ringleaders or guilty of aggravated excesses) who shall, within 48 hoars surrender themselves, and deliver up their arms, accoutre ments and ammunition, as pledges of their sincerity. The following additional information respecting the insurrection, was this morning posted at Lloyd's: GI.A‘GOM, Ocr. 11, it past 5, P. st.—By the Olenbervie, arrived in the Clyde frost► Demarare, letters have bees received, dated 31st August and list Sept. They state that the Negroes had returned to their work, and all was the* traquil and quiet. Three of the ringleaders had bens executed on the 30th August, and three white persons were under arrest. _ ANOTHER ACCOUNT. --.A Cettrt Martial is sitting—pee. sons are daily bringing in—important information wn hourly obtained. The conspiracy had deep ramifications. and bet.n contrived by men of superior abilirtes.A [moot true had arrived with troops from ilarbadoes. The dna:m.l7i the plot was made only 2 limns before it wss ereented, and which eras to have made Drmarara another St. Domingo. Three of the isite persons ander arrest have had all their papers seized. The Glasgow Courier received this morning, stabilise a dreadful conspiracy has been discovered in the Havana; almost at the moment it was to be put in execution. iit Lucia, an insurrection bad been suppressed, and the conspi rators were taking their trial when tbe packet sailed. In Trinidad, the white irhabitants wen apprehensive of a similar attempt tak ng place. There was to ba a Te Ileum in Notre Dame, in Paris, at the 12th (last Sunday), for the surrender of Cadls. Accounts from Batavia of the Sth of May . stsie, that $1 Dutch have experienced a severe oefeat in an espedition Perlang, in .consemoence .coming into contact with s Mountain Tribe of undaunted valour and enterprisine; spirit. hurl G. 11. Spencer Churchill, third son of the Dohs df Marlborough, has been admitted to Priests Orders, by.tas Bishop of Norwich. In addition to the appointment of Mr.riLionel 11 , rvIt, the head of a Commission to investigate, in all 7.3 teoirim,e,. the situation of Mexico,.we have to state th .3 Mt. Wsk i (the son of the late Clerk of the Ordnance), is appincli second Co 11111 l issioner on the same mission. ~ The rtatement in our paper last week, eelAtive t.the gip pointment of Lient.lieurral Sir Lowry Cole, G.C.B. to 1 Government of the MaarAius at a reduced sal4ry, is et error. Sir Lowry Cole succeeds Sir It. Farquhar a‘ Governor, and with the sameeroolument ;. but to ,ig• a Liar tenant General. he also assumes the command of the troops rendering the presence of a Major General on the 1 ‘ 1 " 4 unnecessary, whose pay anti allowances are therefore sera to the country—a proceeding that 11,.s been adopted in wet of the Colonies, as in the appointment of Lient. it e aeral Lord Dlleousie to Canada, rd Coinbernaere to the Wes t Indies, Sir E. Paget to Ceylon, &c. Letters li eve recently been received from India. coll 2 " 1• casing the painful intelligence that the health of 111. Spankie, the King's Attorney General of Ileugal, was in tht utmost 'pea • E ex r: b) t r fa 3 I i