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beyond their flnences to bear, dabs moat inevitably they could not tell or specify the precise time. He ,ch obliged to those Hon. Members who affect not to ty or testae in the sinking fund, to carry their minds a -n, and explain to him (if they could) in any of these -- or war which all had read of in hietory, would be, if this fund did not exiet. The sys. ..oueed, but even thus it had been the salvation of (Hese, hear.) He was willing to admit it was the the greatest abuses. (Hear.) If this system had nut it' it were wielded with modevation, it would bare ,of human wisdom. He would ask, if the roan eed to go to war,—and this was aa-evaet which must ttemplated by the Member for Westmineter,—the certainly had no objection to war (hear), what would • it this I .td ? The question of war was most fairly upon in the Home : they were not Quakers. lie Ivornte of war, but the invasion of any of our great lof course force the country into that state. He was j bed to peace, but if the feelings which had last year better of the prudence of the country, had prevailed, 'he consequence ? If this country, without the actual were placed tinder the necessity of making poll , with either France .or Ramie, which may eat would paw away like a cloud ; and wanted ten or fifteen millions, would it not advantage to the country to Moow the sum, by gradual instalments ? Theipeat abuse of the le apparent to the country in the time of the ad. lewd Sielmouth. This minister, during the time of e, discovered or thought he discovered that there hope that the war was to be temporary, that it the features of permanency. At this time the he alluded, tame down to the House with a ! taxation, and raised his loans, which it ought to a raise, and which, unless they were fools and std not expect to have paid as the return of are not insenelble to popularity. He knew how to acquire a kind of market town popularity, by, against the excess of taxation. (Hear, bear). But he e could not be paid at the close of the war; and it turners of that House and of the country, that he for the reduction of taxation. lie would ask the thought the country should go on, to poke out to • spot there they were to stop in the expenditure of it inihioets? it mien be doge in the case of a ternise of 50001. a yaw % who could nahlulai• his es ..,iad make them agree with his expendiwee, at idle withri the limits of 5101 a year. Ile was ready to admit that the Sink ing Fund was a but name—that it had latterly been a mom of . ri• diode. There would be no public creditor if there was not security; end if this country had to make soy political demonstration either with France or any other country, they would laugh at her. England may better go to the consideration of political Matters with a dis organised army er adieorganised navy, with any thing in die order ra ther than her treasury in the present state of the world. The treasury was the source and foundation our strength. As to the - tion before the House, he thought an arrangement might be made foe the reduction of taxes. lie ought to make an apology to the House foe bringing forward his budget after that of Ministers, but is truth be was tot satisfied with the mere repeal of a tax ; it should be also inquired into if it wettable best tax to be repealed. With respect to the repeal of the salt tax, he did rot think it to be the best to take off ; and if antiquity in la eation were a proof of • its merit, el I. was a good tax, fi r in the most re:note time., and in all c untries, a tax had been laid on this article, and in his intercourse with the ramie he had never heard one of ttom complain of this tax ; he had never heard one of them say ft mewed upo I him. He was ready to admit that salt might now be used for agritultural purposes. He thought the taking the duty off salt was a mistake, and there were other articles off which the a t' Mild be tek rye with more satisfaction to the people; by this tepeal 410.0031. wee lost. There was also a repeal of the ditties on Finch tilts; this repeal, though attended with future benelit, would be the cause of immediate distress and suffering; by this re peal thee was loot • sum of 500.11001. This added to the salt duty, war 500,000., enl would give relief from the Window Tax. There was also the m nor tea ed last year for the Churches, which might he wheat, d at 20,0001. the year ; and these sums added together should he applied to therepeal of the Window Tax ; this would be most sa to-sae y to all Hawes; it would be conducive to health and comfort, and would reline she public from that tax, which was the most vexa•ieus of alt. He always preferred that direct time should be take, MT. Those ehich were blended and mixed up with the nonefittured alleles sold in the shops, were not felt with so much aeuteneis as those collected by the person who always made hie ap pearance when he was not wanted. With respect to the plan of the Member for Abingdea, for the reduction of the lard tax, he did not see the reason or ti.e motive for it ; for the country would stand peekely as b fore. in regard to the debt. It' the tax was weld fur thirty or thirty-five yeas' purchase, rind converted inn money, it would then be realised as leenk stock was; and if that was taken by Ministers to the market, and applied ne a kind of sinking fund to the payment of Exchequer bills, or t to discharge of the millions due to to Hank. .he would approve or the plan. Ile thought the bargain made by Government at par should be paid at the sane rate ; and by pursuing the same steady plan which the Right Hon. Gentleman laid down for himself, and Loin which he would not allow himself to be 'riven. the prover- ity of the coon ry would be increased, the rare of interest would he re duced, the three per cents. would be brought down to -2 and 21. the security of ,he public ereditor would be maintained, and the object • they all had in view, the diminution of taxation, would be ulti mately obtained. Lord AI:THOR P explained. Mr. W. SMITH *greed with the honourable Member who bad spoken last, that the sinking fund was considered me a nick-name, wed hod Mien into disrepute. Ile agreed with him also that the' rate of interest on the aim of five millions would not affect the troney-rnarket, if we wanted to borrow in time of war. He could no! htlp considering the argument drawn from Holland as untie tUllate thist•Otrernment, in that country. was obliged to pay five per cent., whilst a private in could have it at three. Ile bad accaunted for that by saying the finance system was bad, and the expenditure was greater than the income. This deficiency was thereto.e to be made up by drawing on its hinds, or by annual leans. There was no •ax in the whole country which unitei so many de. shahle dream tancet as the Window Tax. With respect to the duties on salt, he agreed that there was no use in getting rid of this tax, without its apparatus--the officers of the Excise and the co lee ors. If th a were abolished, he would wish the repeal of the x. b t not othe wise. It would be better to increase the house duty then to coot nue the window tax, which is so detrimental be. e.use it p events he entrance of light and air. This would get rid of a gnat number of a very disagreeable part of society—the sur. veyoxs sod anteaters. For these reasons he would give his tote for the reptile the Window Tax. Lord MILTON said, it was a question whether the public credit of thetotmery might not rest on starve better foundation than the Sinking Furd. Tie !loon was, in sonic degree, the representa tive of a fit people—of a nation which owns no master ; and he rd Mato it as a ;Wernher of that House, thought that the Sink- Mg Fund w add not be to the credit of that nation. 'He would ask his Hon. Friend (the (:ha:iodise of the Exchequer) whether he owlet rot rather lend his mom:: to this country, or to any free tuentry ahrli had no surplus money, than to the (lrand Seignior, watt a surpais ever so great. Ile ( Lord Milton) thought there ap peared sem ithieg unjust in calling upon all classes of the country for the pairs •of increasing the value of the public stock. It weenie b cause it operand to raise the value of money that he !wooed t arc firking Feted, but because he thought it un. yen, that to create this the whole community should be t - xed. There sae a grett error into which persons ran in the view to y ode of the National Debt. It was not actually a debt at all t it .as ait ply a promise to pay certain annuities. There were two w tys of reducing the National Debt: one was by reducing the ▪ qr , na , debt itself; another was by increasing the capital of W rich the d bt peewee . and it amounts to the same thing, wht. di 7 the • ne is done or the other. It was certain that the pmterty of *ire:ten ry would be increased by kat leg five millioes in the pock et of tl e people. As long as a Sinking Fund exists in this coun te e the eeopie had a right toeel] on the Howie to reduce taxation. He seal l not at present enter inn p mlars with his lion. Friend, . the Cl a Icellor of the Exchequer, as to the tax it would be most ; exaedi a to reduce ; bi t he hoped the Hon. Gentleman. who had beet •o much aid so deserveny applauded for the financial plan weich he sat meted to the House, would reduce the duty on salt. He did not agree wish the Member for Taunton, who bad spoken of the unimportance of this point ; and he believed that no tax existed, perhaps with the exception of that on malt, the reduction of which would give greater comfort and satisfaction to the peeple. • With respect to the tax which had been more particularly dwelt upon—that en coals, he would conies' that he was not himself sa tisfied of Its being the oae most necessary to be . ..educed. When teem were to be remitted, those should be the first which are oust generally felt ; but this was only felt partially. Other parts of the country had as strong a Haim as London ott the cnn. seleration of the fine. Gent. He (Lord Milton) would prefer that the reduct:on should take place on the duties on malt and beer. surplus do this ! Ile (311 r. Home) admitted that his Majesty'! Ministers had done good; but the !house was not therefore to allot them to do evil, nor to follow theni blindfold in the extraordinary plan they now proposed. His Majesty's Ministers would affirm that two and one make four; they had affirmed that sixteen is equal to twenty. Ile (Mr. flume) would ask, is the country in a thittl4.• tion to require no relief? or are there no classes of the community who want assistance? The country is burthened with • taxation of millions, and with a great military establishment. Now the orerplus of tire millions he would put to relieve taxation, to every shilling of that amount. Ile was convinced the house would act fairly . , honourably, and fur the interests of the people, and give relict to the country. lr. SYKES would not detain the House long at so late an boor of the night. lie never had any reliance on a sinking fund from the time when it wan first established. trtcause he had never been able to conceive of what utility it could be. But he would vote on other grounds against the proposition of his Hon. Zriend (Mr. Ho! Louse). Mr. 11011EIOCSE said, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not got rid of one question which had been put to him—whetner the tairation of titly.stx millions should continue for four y ears longer 7 Whatever might be the o)inion in the House, he (Mr. H.) was sure that out ofit, wou ld it, it be deemed most erroneous. It had been allowed by every :Umber in the House, and even by his Majesty's Ministers, that it would be better to remit the windoit tax than any other. lii alluding to the expressions used by an lion. Member relative to the politeness which was displayed by tax. gatherers, he (Mr. Hohhouse) knew that their conduct was too often very different; that they not unfrequent/y took the beds from under the persons of those who were in debt for the tax so grievously coin. plained of. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided ; when there appeared— For the ;notion . 88 I Against it - . 133 Majority against the motion - 67 The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the HOUSe adjourned at Tw Lir E O'CLOCK. NOTICES OF MOTIONS THIS DAY. I. 31r. flee.-gee Lamb—Dill for allowing Persons prosecuted for Felony to defend by Counsel. 2. Mr. Cameos—Copy of 3letuorial concerning the absence of the A trorney.Orneral from the Isle of Maim j also, Copy of Patent or his appoint:nevi. ORDERS OF TILE DAY. Marina Mutiny Bill—Cnnyultree. Clergy Resides:cc (Ireland) Bill—Second Readiof. Ways and Illeana__commiuce. P.IRLIAMENTARY PAPER. HOPS. An Account of the Quantity of Hope exported from Great Britain to Ireland, from 4th January 11::3 to Atli January Int ; also, an Account of flops exported to Foreign Countries; also, an Account of llops imported evrir g the same p. rind. . Cwts. qrs. lbs. Ireland . . . 10,966 0 7 Other parts : Cwts. qrs. lbs. Russia - . 123 3 6 Sweden - - I,IWWI 1 13 Norway - - . WI 0 21 Illeninark - - - 6:11 2 24 Prussia - - 3,53 0 19 Germany . - - 1,1;19 3 0 France . - 5 3 10 Madeira . - - 0 1 U Isles of Gummy, Jersey, and Mann Alit 0 13 Fast Indies and China - . 43 1 11 New Holland - - 125 2 11 Cape of Good Hope . 79 3 24 British North American Colonies 1 3 0 British West Indies - 20 1 3 Foreign Colonies on the Continent of America - - 12 1 0 -- 5,389 1 15 Total - II; ,335 1 V PRICES 01 FOltEltIN Austrian Scrip. 111 4 f 121 pr Ditto 11W Ac.. 114 44 p. Ditto paid in full 9111 Chaim Bonds, • Ditto for Acct. OS Colombian Bonds, Do. tOr Account. fitt 71 Danish Bonds. 1494 Ditto Marks Banco. Mex. Scrip, 94 4 II B pr. Ho. for Ac. l 9i 11; or. Neapolitan Bonds, Iltl Ditto for Account 87. 84 Portuguese Bonds 91 Ditto Scrip. 14 4 A pm. Prussian Bonds, 99 SI 84 Ditto for Account Ditto Bonds (11122) 984 7 Russian lids. 9134 44 44 ex. die. STOIKS V EST ERDA V. Russian far Acct. 944 Russian !ascription Exchange per IMMO MU) Metallic Stack Mnah* Cans. 914 Ditto for Accoont 24 1 1 Ditto 170 & 235 Bds. 26. 5j 61 1)itto113 Bonds 26 1 Do. rper Ct.. (1813) 18! 9 6f 2 Ditto for Acct. 191 Anglo Alex. Mines 7 pr. United Ditto Fr. Return, 102 f. 101 f. Do. Scrip, 132 I 4 1 pm. Ditto for the Acct. 134 144 pm. lb. Ex. 25f. 50c. Greek Scrip. 3,; 1 1 1 Peruvian Scrip COURSE OF EXCH. , Amsterdam C. F. 12 2 Ditto, at sight - 11 19 Rotterdam 12 3 Antwerp . . 12 4 I Isauburgh 37 3 Altona - • 37 6 ►aria, 3 days' sight 25 tkt Ditto - 23 Mt llourileaux . 2.) 00 Berlin - 7 10 Frankfort-on-the-Main 1.")5i Petersburgh 9 Vienna Trieste Madrid Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona Seville Gibraltar - 10 le 10 ssA MAILS. Anatvt: 9-1 French. D:eLll;inbon, 1 Gonenbangth and 1 llambnrgh. ASII WE DE NiDAY.-110lidlly at all the Publk Offices dila day. NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Tamorrow ).:vening. Till 3larrh 1. will he performed THE; 11fItRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Fenton, :Mr. Brehm : Sir John Falstaff; Mr. I sus ton; Mrs. Ford, bliss Stephens; Mrs. Page, Madame ‘'rattle. To conclude with the Romance of IAWOISKA. On Friday there will be no Performance. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDE Y. To-morrow Evening, THURSDAY, March 4, will be performed NATIVE LAND. Ptincipal Characters by iira;;Alit;;l;.h:, -- ir. Farm, Cooper, and Fawcett ; 31i*ca Paton, Lore, and M. Tree. After which, THE FOREST OF BODY. On Friday a Grand PerformanceoiAticient and .Modern Music, undo the direction trf liochia. Mr. HUME could not allow the observations of the Honourable Member for Tawiton to pass without notice. Ile differed from alnum everyper-on in the House in the opinion that this quesdon resial entireiy on the principle. whether the sinking fund be or be not kept up. It appeared to him that there were two ways to re. duce the tuitional deht—by reducing either the revenue or military estaldislinietn. Toe /aver, it was dear, would amount this year to six eta millions, which was the *hide amount of the revenue of Dieu Dritain in tie year 1793. He (31r. Hume) pledged himself mat if the House i, , :rs-vered in a resolute line of conduct his Ma :Nty's 31inistivi a.mdd immediately educe the rodivary establish froa. lle did think that the lion. Member for TauntOn had min. Sir Thomas Maitland's virtues, for the first time, arc talcn the argument. He asked tha House if' theme werc any man of common integ r ity wh o hail contracted debts Miring a war and rising all to view since his death, and becoming the theme rthi.cil to ray off th,lie dens in a time of peace ? But such a man, of most disinterested panegyric at Corfu. ills friends can -13. sach a proceed:: g t»ight uin himself, and considerably injure community of which he in a member. The Right Honourable not say that the good he did ?lunher for Taunton says, " Do lint go forward for one hundred " Is interred with his bones." )cars ;" but he (Mr. flume) was inclined to argue what nay " The world," the lonian Senate exclaims, with oriental I'r tom iat hail beer, and go would Intel: about thirty r';:rgias far only Its 1796. Then r 0 less than 479 millions of money amplification, in its proclamation from Corfu of the 2.stri borrowed, for no other purpose than to sena that favoured ,January—" the world is deprived of that beneficent per tinting Fund. The Har.ottrablc (Lindeman' says such a Pr ashler ass the saving of the country, but lie : 3lr. Hume) " sonage, and the public grief, which has already antici tr.., sure that the country incurred by it an expense of 200 millions. it pates! the melancholy notification, displayed the emotions When the 470 millions were borrowed, what was done with it ? It vas borrowed at M. 34. per cent.. Foul the cotniviiasioners afterwards " of gratitude and affection in a spontaneous tribute to Ice.: it Slit, and or ly got 41. 17s. per cert., making a loss of " its lamented benefactor." Then follows the decree of or eiery MI. It seemed that his Majesty's Ministers were tesolvA that the Sinking Find should he millions, without refer- mourning and sorrow, one article of which declares " that once to the state of the country or to any thing else. It is necca- all public business shall be suspended for three days in in have surplus, they say. and so borrow live millions from utak. Nothing asionished'him more than that the Honourable " the offices of the Government, the Courts of Justhtr, and : 11, ndier for Taunton. who knew .% merican simplicity, should en- " before the Magistrates." This is a new ntot'e of chew. esrour to litmus& the House that we have the fire millions. yid OW the public credit would be kcpt en by it—to make a notnirai lug public respnt to the dead, by disturbinz tl!'• pursuits Zzitt 4ritiOtt VriSO. The BRITISH Pa EVI commenced publishing yesterday ettoadtag at a quarter past rig t i cluck. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, 11Anot 3, 1824. and avocations of the living—low:Ail% iu the style of the ancients, who immolated the trembling slaves on the bodiei of their deceased masters, and eatended the tyranny of the departed even beyond the grave. Another article of this unique decree orders a general mourning throughout the Islands for a month ; and a closing one, that the funeral ekequies of the High Commission*. should be cele "natal foi three successive days in the churches of the' Islands. This is all " a mockery of woe,' mere theatric grief, that has no place within the heart. Sir Thomas blaitland's Government was notoriously most unpopular through the lonian Isles, and detsated by the Greek in [habitants. Far from mourning for hie death, on the first accounts having reached Corfu and the otber islands that lie wax nO mofe, the priests and people *waged to the churches to offer thanks t. Heaven fur the happy deli verance. The Greek Tragedy. in the present instance, has ; been acted too far ; the whole plot, and its authors, arc. at once apparent ; and, lugubrious as it was intended to be, lit brings no tears nor sorrow in its train. Sir Frederick Adam, the present Commissioner, has formed a Greek l connexion, and will probably pursue a different policy: it is necessary; we were losing our character fast in the east of Europe, while Retail' Was speculating with an am bitious eye on all our errors and misgovernment. The !policy of this insatiate Power never slumbers ; and Sir , 1 Thomas Maitland did nothing to Conciliate attachment to this country in that interred • quarter of Europe. The Chancellor's resi tion nostasid to be determined upon, and the arrangement at length finally made in the Cabinet for his relinquishing the power he has so long held, and the emoluments of office so dolor!, prised. With many a sigh, and many a deep remit, ate venerable • " ancient" has announced, it is under. to his coed-. dential friends and colleagues, bkiff • eo give up the 1 , seals et the close Or farewel) to all his greatness." PISWRII when poiter and influence are no more around the greatiegal dignitary, his faults may be forgotten, and his merits slowly actnow4 letlgt•tl— _ . Bich were be/ c . though triT d y could add be much obliged sot utility or vtla: ii r rnatio farther on, and eci t tts of peace or hat the consequences wt had been abused, b it be country. (Hear, bee ). shier: of the greateat cea abused, it it were been the perfection of hu ry were campellail to gu be often contemplated lion. Membercerrainly I be done without this • t 3 be reflect _ upon in I was not the advorate of interests would a COWIN sinestely attached to pet almost got the better oil what would be the come necessity of war, were teal demonstrations wi not end in war, but if the country wanted be a tcremer 'desalt and pay it again by get -Fenn was made awa ministration Of laird SI Ins holding office. disc was no lorger a hope had assumed all the t minister to whom he a boll proposal of mean be importiblc to raise idiots, they would not peace. lie wan not I Maly it was to acquit declaiming against the knew these Imo' could was to the COM.' it Utioll mainly looked for the ))embers who thought him the recite spot ea wi large same at fa an private gentleman of peaces, and make then Quantity of flops imported into Great Britain. Cwts. qrs. lbs. 66l 0 6 Year ending sth January 1 13 1 Inspector General's Office, I'ustom House. London, 19th February 11k..11. I I PRICES OF BRITISH B dd. Stock 2404 39.1 4111 40 3 per Cent Reduced. 911 1 3 per Cent. C"ns. tag j 1 35 per Cent. 1021 4 pa Cent. 1024 3 21 it New per Cents. 109 74 !erg Annuities, Imperial S per Cents. Bank for Account Cons. for Act. fin 941 India Stock 2791 8C 71 WILLIAM IRVING, Inspector General of the Imports and Export; of Great Britain. STO(KM VF.STERDAI'. India 11onds, 71 73 71 pr. India t'r Account, South Sea Stock. 1054 South Sea Old Annuities South Sea New Annuities Ex. Bilk, 1,0001. 39 13 pr. Ditto, 5001. 41 42 pr. Ditto, Small, 38 .13 pr. Induncd ditto Lottery Tickets, 211. Ils. Nli E ESTERDA Y. - . Leghorn . -4,; Genoa - - I3 i Venice - - 27 Malta - . 43 Naples . . 38. Palma° - 115 Lisbon . 61 Oporto - - 61 . Rio Janeiro - 49 Bahia . . Al Ihthlin . Cork 9 - - 9. BULLION. t. s. el. Portugal 00111 in eoin 0 0 0 Fortignld in bars 3 17 11 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollar's 0 4 94 Silver in bars 9 4 11 "Eldnetus, sambitur idetn." Even now it is said he casts many " a longing lingering! look" at all he must leave behind. For a few months more Lord Eldon will sit on the Woolsack, to defy his enemies, and his name and actions will then become a part of history. He was certainly in the House, up stairs, on Monday night, with his brother, Lord Stowell, during the memorable debate which implicated him so closely, and his agitation was apparent to many: he walked rapidly backward and forward, and was heard repeatedly . to exclaim, that " he would not be trampled upon. Like the great Minister to whose patronage he owed his first exaltation, he is said also to have flown to the grape fur refuge, and his draughts to have been long and deep, in the room where he sate and watched on that night the result of Mr. Abereromby's motion. A majority screened Lord Eldon, and yet a small one too. Had the motion in the House of Commons been carried, his tenure of office could not have lasted a day the next morning must have risen on his resignation. The defence made for him was a weak one: he was flung on the mercy of the House: there seemed to be but little sympathy amons many of his colleagues. But it is known that the leading portion of the present Cabinet are opposed to his continuance in office; and his resignation, it is thought, will not be deeply lamented by Mr. Canning, Mr. fiuskisson, or even by Lord Liverpool. His latter days have been troubled and stormy: the winds of hostility have blown high around him ; but, like au old oak, he'bu taken deep root, and it is hard to unsettle or move him. His rise was rapid and unexpected, and twenty years of almost undisturbed power made him nearly supreme. His influence was widely dif fused, and his patronage both in the law and church absolute. His family have been splendidly provided for; and he is said, from immense emoluments and great fru gality, to have accumulated vast wealth. His legal abili ties and acquirements stand undisputed, and his integrity has never yet been impeached; but his political views are all narrow and selfish, and the delays and hesitations of his Court are registered in the ruin of hundreds. His retire ment will bring with it few regrets, and there is nothing ju his character that can baud bins with dignity to other days. Thrthancellor of the Exciteqtus, last night, during the debate on the window tax, with a feeling that does him the highest honour, made another concession, and a most important one, to the public: he declared his intention, in conformity with the suggestion of Mr. John Smith, to re peal the stamp duties on law proceeding. The loss to the revenue, he calculated, would amount to about 200,0001. ; this Mr. Robinson said he would supply, one half by a saving in the collection of the revenue, and the other half he calculated on receiving from the growing increase of the Crown lands. This is one of the most valuable conces sions yet made to the people ; it will reduce the monstrous expenses attendant on a ll law proceedings, the enormous costs of which made law a luxury attainable only by the rich, and put it quite beyond the reach of the poorer or ders. A general revision of all the law offices, and the charges of attornies and solicitors ought to follow on this beneficial repeal. The greatest abuses yet exist in many of these offices, particularly in Ireland ; and the costs of the solicitor, increased by the advances he had to make. were most overgrown, and aught now to be settled by a regulation of the Legislature. We wish the repeal of that obnoxious and distressing impost, the window tax, bad also been conceded ; its amount in the revenue of the country is unothing, but the charge of collection is most dispropor boned, and it presses most severely en the community at large. The window-tax wars equally with the health and comforts of the people; it cuts off numbers front the enjoyment of light and wholesome sir, which they would. Otherwise enjoy ; it is an ungracious and inquisitorial tax, unproductive to Government, and opprt ssive to the co; wry. General disappointment, we know, has been felt at its con tinuance; it has already been repealed in Ireland, and the same concession ought to be made to this country. ll'e hope, before the Session closes, Mr. Robinson will see it in the same light, and strike it from the list of assessments. The great difficulty, we know, lies in providing for the col lectors and others pensioned out of this tax ; but the re duction was easily made in Ireland, where the number was probably as great as here. We cannot praise too warmly Mr. Robinson's honourable and impartial conduct since lie en- tend on his present high office ; it has conciliated for him universal respect and confidence throughout the country. The remainder of Mr. Filar's Petition will be found in another port of our Paper. The whole of it is now be fore the public. It is the principle involved in these pro ceedings with which we are conocrued. Every British subject is interested, and deeply too, in the conduct of County Magistrates; because, it' those who arc set apart in every district throughout the kingdom to sit in jildgment on all persons accused, and who are invested with a power of punishing, at their discretion, when this jurisdiction, sufficiently alarming in itself, has been increascd anal ex tended till a conscientious mall might well tremble to exercise it—if this parer is abused, and abused Without responsibihty and without account, it strikes more radi cally and effectually at the safety of the subject and the security of the Constitution than cry avowed net of arbi trary dominion which emanates from Ministers or from Parliament. Oppression from those quarters i s every where seen and known : the Press proclaims it through the kingdom, and a timely publicity puts every man upon his guard. Remonstrances flow in from all quarters, and the unconstitutional act, whatever it may he, is generally clothed with some sort of sanction, which, though illusive, allays the fervor of popular feeling, and serves to recog nize the justice of the priaciples it overruled. But with local Maghtrates—with Justices of the Peace, dispersed over the whole surface of the country, the danger is quite of another kind. At a distance from the metropolis, these Lords of the soil deal with offenders at their pleasure. if the bwallp of the individual who may be brought before them skald chance to be nctorious!y below the ultra standard, his fall is scaled. They hole rebuke in scorn ;1 the provincial newspapers will not of end them by pro- 'claiming their injustice. They fed themselves se ' cute from all attack within the circle of their &way itt.lacnce ; and beyond that Cfrele the rigour of their sentence, or the illegality of it, never transpires. The liberty of the people is invaded, the maxims of the ,Constiiution violated, all the principles of justice out raged, and the victims suffer without their sufferings being known, and, if known, without any chance of their being relieved. • The two cases of Mr. A. Flint and his brothel-- the one occur' sir at the interval of a twelvemonth from the other—strikingly exemplify the evil we are adverting to. Neither of these cases would have bem known, but from the appeal which was made by them to this Journal to bring these cases before the publlt. We were wholly unknown to the parties ; but the duty Which we owe to the public, and our allegiance to those principles of pri vote and personal justice, which the press of this country 'ought ever to advocate, required that we should concede Ito their request, and we did so. The facts trade a strong impression upon our mind, and we endeavor red to convey that impression, with equal strength arid effect, upon the mind of the public. We stated the . farts, and with the comment which they appeared to us to call for. Having I done this, we should probably there bare rested; but the foolish imprudence of Mr. Chetwynd would not permit this. No sooner had we sheath,d the sword but he sounded the trumpet. The truth had galled his feelings, and the exposure had stung his vanity. Aware—for we bad told him so—that the facts we bad stated would be brought in charge against him before the House of Com mons, of which he was a Member, his first endeavour was to induce a belief that the statements were un founded—that they were mere groundless espersions, in tended to smut the hitherto unspotted purity of his magisterial robe. To strengthen and give effect to this belief, he applied to the Court of King's Bench for a rule to show cause why we abould .not ,be pro secutitj for a libels in having imdicioudy publit6sd as Ink' a statement - fttielt Werfelear ,AIR, Caati4p4, as doubt, conceived that this was a *Miss GI good policy; as the intention of it manifestly was to create an impres sion in his favour when the case of Mr. Charles Flint came before the House, and to furnish a pretext to his Parliamentwzy friends for rallying round hint as a Magis trate and Member of that House, whose conduct and cha racter had been libelled by that very charge then brought against him, and for which he had taken preparatory steps for punishing the petitioner by applicltion to a Court of Law. The whole facts are before the public; they will judge whether we have borne false witness. After perusing this petition, how will those Magistrates who werg not present justify themselves in passing and publishing their resolution that " Earl TALBOT be re quested, on behalf of all the Magistrates present, to express to George Clietwynal, Esq. their unanimous approbation of hit upriltht and imisirtial conduct, relative to the prosecu tion and trial of Charles Flint and others for a mis 'e ineanor." These gentlemen must have overruled the influence of every better feeling before they could give their signatures to such an attestation. If this is to be received throughout the country as a recorded sample of what con stitutes uprightness and impartiality in the judgment of die whole body of County Magistrates in this kingdom, it is well to have it thus publicly announced. But it would be tureandid to pursue the resolution of these gentle men to its *suit. We feel convinced that their more-de liberate judgment will not confirm it. With regard to the suppm tgiven to Mr.A. Flint's petition to Lord Sidmouds, and the success which it obtained through the zealous activity of the Member for Stafford, as stated by the Attorney-General on Friday evening, we will turn to that topic veil , shortly. Weld, a writer of Travels, says, that the William do not directly contradict one who states what is untrue. They reply—" It appears to us so improbable, Mat we cannot assent to it." Vie will profit by this example of Eastern politeness for the present, being obliged, by lbw variety of matter that presses upon us, to postpone this subject till Monday. On that day we shall have more space, when we shall do ample justice to the Attorney-General's veracity on this point, and on some others. The Dt.ke of Yolk, as Commander-in-thief, held a levee yesterday, at his office in the Horse Guards, which was attended by Lieut.-Generals Cre.sbie and Hodgson, Major-Generals - Hutchinson, Conrad, Siriolth Dalrymple, Suripton and Mural; Lords Churchill, /Italian', and Grantha'm ; and between twenty and thirty others. Yesterday, about two o'clock, the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia visited the Date of York, where their Royal Highnesses partook of a tkjeitnel. Monday night Prince Leopold honoured the DuchesS of Somerset with his presence. Yesterday, at Sim o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office in Downing-street, which sat in deli beration till about five o'clock. Despatches were last night made up for Mr. sego, the Italian courier, to take back to Spam a reply to those brought to London a few days since from Sir W. Atourt, our Ambassador at Spain. Yesterday the despatches were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the following ships: viz.—Marquis Camden, Captain Larkins, for Bom bay anti China ' • and the Lady Melville, Captain Clifford, for Madras and China. The following circular was sent yesterday to the lead ing monied men in the City :—" The list of Mcsars. Baily and Goldsmid, for the new Colombian Loan, closed on Saturday last. We understand that these gentlemen have started on a new plan, by endeavouring to assimilate it as much as possible to the English Lotus; and by appor tioning it amongst the subscribers at the price actually contracted for; a method which is evidently advantageous to the Colombian Government, as well as to the subscribers 'at large." _ _ Some sensation was created yesterday in the city amongst the Manchu ster warehousemen, by the disappearance of a person who had for some time enjoyed good credit with goods in their way, to the amount of more than 20,0001. They were shipped for Ilamburgh, whither he is supposed tolrave followed them. A letter from Cadiz stater, that two merchantmen bad just been captured ; but it is not said to what nation they belong. Letters from Missolonghi, by the French mail, state that the Creek and Turkish fleets, in the Gulf of Lepanto, are in sight of each other, and expected to come to action hourly. The Greek fleet, which some mouths ago was only one-third as strong as the Turkish, and which then might have been annihilated if the Turks had displayed a little courage, is now considerably reinforced. CAVAN ELECTION.—It appears from the Dublin EMl ing Post of Saturday, received yesterday, that the person of the name of Smith, who has been killed at the election, was not the individual who proposed Mr. Coote in opposi tion to Mr. MaxwelL The above paper gives the follow ing particulars from another Dublin journal :—" Two persons arc implicated in the murder of the unfortunate Smith. Weir, a constable, who is in custody, and against whom the Jury on the Coroner's Inquest have brought in a verdict of WA/ail Murder ; the other is one of the staff of the Cavan regiment, and has for the present escaped. The circumstances of this murder, we understand, were mast atrocious. The provocation, if any, was very slight. I No previous blow was given until this unfortunate man was knocked down by one of these persons, and the mortal wound given by the other, who plunged a bayonet with such force into the back part of his bead, as to drive the point of it through the top of his skull." SCOTCH LINEN TRADE.—The budget appears to have spread great consternation in the north of Scotland, where the principal manufacturers of coarse linens are situated. Letters from Dundee, received yesterday, state, that it is, calculated that 15,000 poor people will be thrown out of employment, owing to the withdrawing of the bounty on coarse linen. Petitions in favour of the amelioration of the slaves and I grudeul abolition of slavery in the British AVest India Colonies, have been transmitted to the Houses of Lords and Commons, from Circencester. There was literally a scramble for Whole Tickets at all the I,ottery Offim two days before the drawing commenced t and the consequence is, a whole ticket cannot now be obtained tar love or money. Mr. Sivewright, however, has arranged that whoever wants a ticket mar have two halves at the same price, the Contrac tor making loud to the office-keepers the difference in amount; this alternative the purchasers scent very well reconciled to; and as there are still five 20,0001. prizes (two of them for the 17th of, Alarch), it is very possible for two halves to gain two different prize+ of 211,0091.: but whoever gets only one of them, would be very likely to console themselves with the recollzetion that " Ilatt a 1 lwf ;sl.(!ier !reed." Ai?lffl. [FROM OUR rORREsPOYDEX r.l PARIS, FED. 71: We are over head and ears in politics at present, sad party disputes are conducted with an acrimony that thews tile disputants to be in earnest. A very short period will discover what is to be expeend front the new lb•puties, and whether France is to have a liberal Constitution, or whether the t Una are to be the lords of the ascend:lm. The electuri3on each side have put up their Christian 'prayers ; it trill, perhaps, end in a compromise, and cor ruption, as is teotal in such cast-3, will make conv;:rts frets both parties. I have not NIPOre'S Ahrens:el( by me, ant!, nithout it, I sin afraid to prognosticate concerning the po litical regeneration of France, or, indeed, of any country, nglind not excrpt ed. Void NAPIER, the inventor of tbs.' logarithms, prophesied the end of the world, but he c:::- lived his prediction. I have personally great respect for Loris /e arising, in sonic measlier probably, from my sympathy for gocereigna in general, *rib; 1 very sincerely think, are to be pitied. SIIA NAPE &RE, :Elwin, as you know, r worship, and who knew Man thelongbly in all his tinaracrs, simple land compound: and had analysed our nature from the coarsest lump of human clay to the most brilliant and brit tie of its chini warcanessrEAßF. puts into the ir.outh of Henry Me 11/TA the genuine language of truth and feeling, when, in that tine soliloquy, he makes him exclaim— i‘ What infinite hestrys case must Kings niglect That private men enjoy . ! And what have Kin,lN that privates have tot too, Save ceremony, save ,?eneral ceremony ? And wont art thou, thou idol, Ceremony ! What kind of god art thou, that suffeest more Of mortal griefs, than do thy worshippers? What are thy rents ? What are thy comings in ? Olt, Corenusny, shew me but thy worth ! What t, the soul of adoration ? Art thou aught el*: but place, degree, and fof Creatingirwe and fair in other men, Whingijitiwin art less happy, being rested, Than they to traPtas All this is trite in human nature.; and a truth too that has knocked at the heart of every Monarch without excep tion, from the very first invention of crowns and setiltres- We are 11 alike busied in the search after happiness, front the highest to del lowest ; thoskwho search for it in s palace miss it, and those who Ina for it in a cottage don't I find it. In truth, I have' king since conic to the conclusion that it is vain to hunt after it. if there is any such thing I I as true felicity on this earth beneath, it consists in that phi losoplrical and easy state of being, in which a man is eon.: tented with what he is at present, and satisfied with his prospects of the feture. Whoever has arrived at this state I is not slits if his hopes of enjoyment carry him beyond it. The Minister of the Interior (('hateaubriant) gave& hall la?t night, which was nitwit brilliantly attended ; among the visitors were some of the Most distinguished personages in Paris. Title bong the season for marked balls, not all evening passes withoet witnessing a score of these conveni ent and amusing. theatres of Parisian gallantry and intrigue ; they are, however, by no means so gay as might be ex pected, there b;:in ,, but few masks in character ; it is not every mind that has a ap . ng-tide of vivacity sufficient to supply the demands upor it. The beaux are principally in black, and the belles its dominos ; these sombre exteriors give the nocturnal asseinblies rather the appearance of a disordered funeral procession than of a meeting for festivity and frolic. The critics, to a man, have condemned Hon ea for making his gods guilty of laughter ; but this great poet lived in an age when laughter was snore a symptom of genuine enjoyment thin it is at present ; the celestials had no Cheetegie/d among them to petrify their risible muscles. 'fbey were not only seen, but heard to laugh ; besides Olympus was often in an uproar ; in their sublime abodes they paid neither rent nor taxes, which, in. this age are, greater drawbacks upon vulgar merriment than all the rules of politeness. A splendid ball was given by the Russian Ambassador on the same evening with that of Mons. Chateaubriant. The Emperor Alexanihr is not inattentive to the improv ing his influence in all Courts and in all quarters. One cannot have quite forgotten the enthusiasm with which he attached himself for a time to the person and politics of Bonaparte. " All things to all mea :" it is a wise Instant that. The Ultras are now his favourites, and they, in their twin, are great admirers of his magnanimity. What 'short-sighted policy! What reward can they look for? We may well say of them as the Duke ,r orh ails says to the Constable of France, in Henry the FOTh :- 6 . Foolish ears that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear, and bsve their heads crushed like rotten apples." The passage is curiae::, as are the persems of the drama: ;Shs':speare was a prophet as well as a poet, take my word for it. I learn from the newspapers, that you are about to erect a public picture gallery, and that a sum has been voted by Parliament for that purpose. lily only wonder, aud the only wonder of foreigners of either taste or science, is that a structure of this kind should have been hitherto wanting in the British empire. You want one also for sculpture, an art by no means sufficiently encouraged in England. Your patronage aimed engravers is by no means so liberal and effective as it ought to be ; that the French school excel you is to be ascribed to this cause. You hare some artists among you in this department of art that are adrni. , ruble. A friend yesterday 'hewed me a mezzotinto en graving of the Hon. Mrs. Apr Ellis, which he had just received from London ; there is a great sweetness of ex pression in the face, and the figure is feminine and grace ful. The style of engraving is well adapted to portrait ; its great recent nee is .fflargs; it has none of the harsh ness and complexity of cross lines, and on this account it expresses flesh more naturally. This portrait is deliciously executed. There should be • public gallery for engrav ings as well as for paintings. Think of such a man as Nit:Lean, now no more, and then reflect on the exquisite perfection of which this delightful art is susceptible. Amongst our many Parisian i inprovernents, two handsome passages arc just opened on the Boukrards !Innen, called Les Passages Nouvelles de l'Olern, running from the Boule vards to the back of the Academie Royale. They are per haps the most extended in Paris, and are about fiftein feet wide, an:l covered enth e'y by a sky-light. Tl.e houses are two stories high ; one of them is complete, and occu pied by Magasins des Noureaotes, des Modes, as Restau rant, handsomely fitted up; a saloon of public amuse ments, for experimental philosophy, conjuring, balls, Re. called Mille, which is elegantly composed, and much fre quented by la bonne YOC . The two passages communi cate at each end by a transverse passage. Within this inclosure, are to be 'found Cabinets de Lecture, Cabinets inodore, CaPs, in fact, every accommodation that can cap tivate the fashionable world at night ; the whole is bril liantly illuminated by gas, which is now become the ge neral medium for enlightening our paths, in this motro polls, an improvement for which, in spite of their general claim to all inventions, the Parisians are obliged to acknow ledge themselves indebted to the English. Another hand some passage has also been opened from the Rue Pelletier to the Rile d 'Artois. These commodious sheltered pro menades present a most accommodating retreat to those who make the Boulevards their favourite evening walk, in the event of a sudden change in the weather. The Rains Chino;sc, on the Boulevards ltalien, have undergone considerable improvements ; th e re are a t p res: •. t 120 baths: the house is divided, the left wing for Italica, t!ic right for gcrtlemen. In fact, scarcely • day pusses with out some new attraction. 1 shall report them to you ;:s they arise. The :Marquis and Marchioness of Bute arrived in Edin burgh on Thursday evening. Mr. Nolan bas been appointed a Welsh Judge. Cu!font Hall, the seat of the late Marquis Cornwal;i.., is sold to Benyon de Beauvoir, Yesterday morning were married, at St. James's chureb, Lord John 1 hynne, to Miss Beresfortl, daughter 01 the Rev. C.C. Beresfonl and niece to Mrs. George Byng. Aft..r the ceremony the happy pair set off in an elegant chilli , : and four horses, for George Ityng, Esq. M.P.'n se I - . IVrothatn-park, when they intend to pass the bot.::y moon. The amiable and accomplished daughter of W. s. roynta, Esq., is, we underr•arxl, to be led to the lrr• mumsl altar by the Marquis of Exeter.—Sarre ) and Sussex Chronicle. The death of Sir Thomas Reid, But., took place at hi, seat at Chiselhurst, and was the result of a paralytic at tack. Ile was the head of the very respectablefrm of Reid, Irving. and Co., and lately filled the Alma Chair man of the Court of Directors. _ P 1: