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but the poor, or rather that description of per lions just above the - class of paupers. Tne CHANCF:LLoR of the r ExClientlan had ne— . •ver raid no partial inconvenience %meld be found to arise from this Tax, hut lie thought less hard ship would be felt under it than from any •other impost that might be laid on to the same amount. The case which had been described by the Noble Lord was one in which he should have thought relief would have been a fforded,,and liesuspected the Noble Lord to have misanderstood in some re spect. The Tax, ha still contended, would - press heavy on the rich, on absentees, and on those who Avoid() otherwise not contribute their full pro ; portions to the service of the State. Such modi fications as would obviate all objections to the measure, it not be 1 u to introduce, it was' the daty of Varliament to do all they could., To the observations w MO) had been nide ou his former connexions by an Unnourable and Learned Gentleman opposite, he thought it un necessary to Make any reply. A Right Hon. Gentleilan opposite, who, was a distinguished member of, the Government, he (the Chancellor of the,Exchequer) bad roundly had the-honour TO Serve, would not accuse him of doing injustice to • thot Administration. Whether be,•bad ever' been the tiro!, or the channel of jobs which he ought to hesitate to avow, was a.question which 'be should be coutent to refer to that Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. l'onsonhy). PossoNßY was surprised at the reference which had been made to hint by the Chancellor of the'ExChetitier. The situation he held.under . the Government of 1806, that of Chancellor of Ireland, necessarily kept-him out of this country, and he had he'ver had any thing to do with those offices which regulated the expenditure of thepub licJnoney. It was singular that such a reference should have been made to him, by the Right Hon. Gentleman who had then been Secretary to the . "Treasury., Onthis, as on a former evening, that Right Han, Gentleman was very unfortunate, in bw recollections. • Air. Gastima.'s motion respecting certain transactions between the Bank and the Public, and the liauk Restriction Loan , Bill, were post poned till to-morrow. Air. TIERNE/ Moved for Copies of the Estimates and Supplementary Estimates for the Depart ments of the Lords Chamberlain and Steward of the Royal Household ; and CopieS of the actual .Expenditere,, from the first of January, 1814, to the first of January, 1816. Alr. VAIOITTAAT hoped the Right Hon. Gen tleman would make his motion to-morrow, in order that he might see if the whole of the estimates . could be produced with Out inconvenience. Mr, TIULLNEY thought At strange the Right lon. Gentleman should ask for delay.' The..ac rienonts unlit be sent in by the Lord Chamberlain, and he must tell him that if he found a sixpence beyond the minimised sum under the sign manual had been advauced, the' Lords of the Treasury de served impeachment. Lord CAsTLEREAOH observed, that the common courtesy of Parliament 'required a notice irf any minim,. The Right Hon. Gentleman seemed eurprized that his Hon. Friend could not answer his call immediately, but it must be recollected - that he was not the whole Treasury. Air. Tien:4l4v then wit h drew his motion and g a ve notice of it for to-morrow. Sir J. Newroier presented a Petition from ,the Chamber of Commerce of Waterford, against the importation into that ci ty of foreign 'butter ; and praying some measure _ to prevent it.--4t was laid en the table. ffor the Remainder of the Coromons, see the last Page.) TRENCH PA PER S. CHAMBER OF DEPU I'IES, MARCIE 9. de Corbieres made a Report from ,the Com inittee on theßudget. It proposes to, consolidate the tiiti and' new arrears, and liquidlite them by awns of perpetual rents; The Committee found nothing to retrench in the expences of the Royal Household, but recommended a diminution of ex-. pence in the departments of the Ministers of 'ins *ice, the Intetior, War, and Finance. The Report* rejects . the proposition for -new indirect 'faxes, suggesting instead atv increase of the existing ones; 1:10 Report was ordered to be printed. Count Corvetto prviented a Projet in•the name of the King, .the object of which is in conser suenge of the delay that liaS taken place in the discussion of the Undo, and to prevent any in terruption in the public service, to authorize the collecting provisionally until the 30th of June the direct taxes, on the same rooting as in 1815.. Several Members wanted to come to vote on this immediately, but others considered such ,a step as an infraction albeir rule*, and the Pro jet was ordered to be printed and sent to the Hu- react. 4Feuillant, Second Reporter of the Commit tee, entered into a detail relative to the rejection of t he new indirect taxes. Al. Morgan, Third Reporter of the Committee, presented the development of a theory ou Imports and Elnew s . TRIAL OF M.:An-ADMIRAL LIAYIIS, AID ADJUTANT COMMANDANT BARON BOYER. SITTING OF MARCH 9TII. The examinati, ....m of witnesses was c ontinued. Liclit• Moreau de Joatines stateil,the desire that existed in• the towns to hoist the tai-coloured Bag, "' :r the. itlea.of preserving Guadaloupe4o•France. `This <lidless alluded to the Proclamation of Count de Vattgimrd, as Governor-General (tithe Antilles. M. de Linois said he had no knowledge of that troelamation until several days after it was is sued: The 22d of June, the English Adiniral, Durham, said he hail no orders front his Govern went .to attack the tri-coLoured flag. Cottpevent thought the white ; flag might nave been inaintaitted,if the English had not ma nifested a disposition to make a descent upon the • • • M. Clen 3 anein Gervais had heard frotn the in hal). tants' that Colonel-foyer had 'prevented a civil, war, and saved, the Colony, by hoisting the tri• t° l ohtvti o . do 111 V is was suspected .o! having an intention of admitting the British Forces. M. Rognin and M. Nolnt were of the same opi nion with the last tvitue , s, with rrsiicet to Colonel BOvet's hoisting the tri-colnured flag: Several oilier witnesses gave testimony to the same flee . One of them, Lieut.-Colonel parnaml, said he bad heard that the inhabitants of Point a Petre had .signed an Address' ttr-Col. Buyer, declaring. that if he diJ not cause the tri-coloured fl. to be hoisted they would hoist it thdmseives. The trial was adjourned till to-nsorrow. By an Ordonnanee ,of the King of the 2Sth. July, 1815, all the nominations made in the Lir giim of Honour by the Usurper and the Commis-• sion called of Government front Feb. 27th, 1815, to the 7th July, are annulled. . • ' MAILM. ARRIVED-1 Lisbon, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1, Dublin. • Di , e-1 France, 1 Holland, t Gottenburgb, 1 Hamburg!), 1 Waterford. PRICk: 01 THIS PAY AT r flank Stock, shut .3 per Cent Retl. shut 3 per Cent. Cons. a ; r 4 per Cents, shut ' a per Ct: Navy Ann. 90a1t Hank L. Ann. shut F STOCKS lyEt.v India Bonds, 21. 3;. pr. Excheq. Bin., is. dis. lg. pr. (7mninro. li{ Ditto for r itymeitt, I$H Coos. fur Account,liiii NIGH WATER AT LONDON 11R1 DfiT, To-monttow. Morning, 15 MiUute4 aftur 3. Evening, 37 to ilintes after 3. • iOGCSI - QUII niCEitE FALAUZ4I AtingAT ? LONDON. THIIRSD4Y, Mdltc3t u, late. A Message on the subjeCt of the MarrikAge of the Princes' Cli AIELOTTE is expected to be de , liered to both Houses of Purliainent this even- • - The Paris Papers of the 10 , h contain some fur ther reports of the proceedings of the two Cham bers on the Budget, Sze. of, which we give an ab stract. They also furnish another day of. the trial of Admiral LINOU and Colonel BONER, who, itihotild seem, revolted only to prove loyalty, hoisted BUONAP.III. - iftS. flag to.shew their attachinent to Lcitlls XVIII, and became Rebels for no Other reason but to preserve Comdaloupe for their Sovereign !•! We rake it for granted that it they had had time to curly their design into effect, and execute seventeen' Royalist's in honour of the Usurpers' birth-day, .it must have been eeeeived by the Court Martial as decisive of their hive for the Bourbons ! East India !base,' Nit/ ch 14; 1S IG. The country ship Lord Castlereagh arrived in the DoWns yesterday, fro►>a Bombay, *hiCh place she left about the 10th of November last, on which day it is reported the David Scott and Carmar then arrived there.—The Company's ship Thomas Grenville, outward•bound, sailed from Bimon's Bay, Ist January last. Same further progress was made in the House of Commons last night with the Estimates of the Military Establishments propoied for the'present year. Coming to detail and facts, the opponents 'of Ministers had nothing but feeble objections to urge,_ and these Estimates were agreed to with - out divisions. Not so discreetly and quietly was the presentation of half a dozen ?cations against Property Tax suffered to take place. Here the Enemies of Government have' finer scope for charges in gross for declamatiou, for al, legations against others which cannot be sup ported, and for those modest puffs of their own patriotism and virtue; which come sct flOwingly,and gracefully frOm the ranks of :apps-. sition. The ,subjects introduced led •to rather sharp debates, and were as unconnected with!tho. ground whence they sprung, and us fAreign . to , the matter before the House, as can wg,ll be host gilled. No doubt the people, of Dumfries will be. astonished to find that their Petition Against the Property Tax %va t 's 'the foundation for a thscussiOn 00 the salary, of the Secretary of the Admiralty. But so it was Mr. Ilaationatu as usual made this the vehicle for throwing out one of his liberal el legations, and foresserting that Ministers .were guilty of nothing but extravagance and comp lion. Without enquiring, into or knowing the rea sons for which, in an expenditure of millions a yeae, thr t ee or tour thousand pounds,, in all, have been ,added to salaries in particUlar instances,. while hundreds of thousands have . been retrenched in the mass, the fair and candid Party endeavour to -inflame the public mind by unsustained and un warrantable chargeaof piofnie and improper ad ministration of the funds of therotintry.4?,very honourable mind must view such shameless con duct with disgust, as every independent Member of Parliament will, treat :seat paltry though insi (hoot artifices with contempt. In the ['ire, the Pl:achers of Rebellion—the dark Insinuators of Revolutionary Doctrines, seem half afraid of their own work. They hint at it dibposition to go beyond petitioning; should _the ficrliament mass art Act iroliosing the Property. ing. Tax. Scandalous icapostare They know well that the People have do feeling against this Tax ; that the Peop/e, in spite of their misrepresentations, clearly rinnprehend that it do, s mot affect them one that the People (meaning thereby nineteen twentieth's of the popolatiool are perfectly aware that it is the only measure which can save them from pressure, by throwing the burthen on those most ableand most Worthy to bear it—on traders who hare grown rich with the war--on pro prietnrs whose property has quadrupled with the .ir'ar—on rich Absentees, who drain the wealth of their eountry to spend it in foreign lands‘-on the numerous 'class of enormously wealthy men,. stockholders and others, whose annual accumula tion of thousands on thousands cannot be brought by any other means to contribute to the wants of the State—on Placemen and Pensioners—in short, on the man of property and Income, and not on the poormata. This the People well.know, and they will not be stimulated to lawless violence by the foul arts of either demagogue Orators or de- Magogue Newspapers. Yesterday Washington Papers, to the Ilth nit. reached town. ,There appears to be some founda tion for the rumour, that the pence between Ame rica-anti the Dey of -,Xigiers does not promise to be permanent. That great hope of the Amerkan Navy, Commodore DECATUR, has been charged by the Algerines with a forfeit of his pledge, if not with a direct iufraction of the late Treaty.— This accusation does not rest upon the authority of the Algerines alone, but is confirmed by an American 01ficer present at the signing of the Tre'aty of Peace. NAVAL NEWS. FALgoUTU, MARCH 1 I.—Arrived the Marlbo rough packet vsi:h a mail from Lisbon, in 10 days; Snake packet (10111 Stang►ate Creek, after performing gitat'aittitte. Arrived u ship transport, (No. 25), supposed the Seringapatam, • from Portsmouth ; .also another ship ; but the weather is so bad no boats can go off S.W. DEAL, MARCH rived the Lord Castle reagh,. LAIN G, from Bombay, and the Cyrni, DAME, fron► the . South Seas, anti ren►ain in the Downs with his Majesty's ships and outward bound as before. PLY moUTH , MARCH I2.—The Medway, 74, came in yesterday, from the Eastward. Potursatotru, Maaptt 13.—ArriVed the Ross, UhttitisoN, for Jamaica—put back from off the Lizard, with loss of top-mast, and fore-mast sprung ; the Albion, BROWN, put back ; Forti tude, NAPIER, front Genoa. Several other ward-bound slaps are put back—partieulara known.—Wi ad W. S.W. HAKIvICH , MARCH 13.- , —Twci ettiks . of whiskey, marked. " HL. No. 4738 and 807,!' :have bven Piekell' up and landed here. Arrived "the Henry Freeling p.trket with cnniil fron finilaild, and the Beaufoy packet with a mail from Cuxhaven. Wind W. • • • • " • It was mentioned the other day that an'Ameti f can 'ship, called the Baltitiore, of 800 toni,•bad been :abandonell.at sea by the crew, who got on on board the' Rapid packet, and that nine.of-the Rapid's crew, including the mate, had volunteered to bring her into Toni'. The vessel has got safe into .Falmouth, to the great credit of the nine Bri tish seamen. We shall say'nothin of the 22 Ante ricans who abandoned • INDIA-HOUSE.—Yesterday a COllll of Direckom was held, when the following Captains were , sworn into the command of their respeeti've ships, • I Cupinin 11: Un n, ola"gles , venial direit Captain IT Coln), Alexander, Madeira and llinubay.' The - muter-mentioned Commander+ took leave of the Court - prtviotts to departing for their i•e -'• . rpect ive destinuttons, • Captain T. Durobleton, Larkins, Captain P. Campbell,' 'Lord Keitb, Madras and liedgai. Daniel Callaghan, jan. Esq. *as appointed the Company's agent at Cork. ORATORIO. Dflurtr 7 LAxa.---The Selection for last night *as a portion of load. in Egypt, the third:part being miscellaneous. In the compositions of HANDEL, Mr. littAukts ciiiplayed that truth and forcewhich assured the tastef u l eAr of his . poivers and his judgment, and that exteution and false ornantent, in the liewilderfd Maid," which tickled and de lighted the vulgar. Mrs, SALMON sung 'sweetly, and Mrs.thcmoxs 4iitlr' : he'r usual energy, pathos, and precisicot : these kberforniers' are so used to, and so deserving of commendation, it is almost needless to " hold their talents up to fame," but it is a critical duty, as well as a private gratifica- tion, to call the general attention to rising ex. cellance, and in that view we are delighted to no tice, The Land. br o u g ht, &c." of Miss Rua acct., and the,wholg, indeed, of her performance. Nesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the Fateign Office, which sat about three hours. It assembled at half past one, and did not break up till near hall -past four. • The Kulof CARLISLit is considers:ll)ly recovered - , iiad sits tip u short tune every clay, PROPERtY , TAX. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE SUN. -Aath o Match JO, 1816, SIR,-.4 was much pleased with the ar. d oaeut of one of your Correspondent's, who proved that. if one-fourth part at the population oily possess ad each man an laconic of 401. that that part' alone would pay the whole of the Property Tax at 4/. per Man, and consequently the other three-fourths must be exempt.'` 'lbw as there are several persons in England who have.an in come of 100,000/. and who, therefore pay, or ought to pay, 2,500 shares, at 41. per head— many who possess incomes of 2,3, or 40001., and thousands whose incomes excLed till/. and , con sequently exempt one- individnal each froi» pay ing the Tax ; it follows that the persiths who really pay Income Tax do not amount to one twelfth, I might say one-twentieth, part of the population of Great Thitain, a number hardly equal to the list of names petitioning against, the Tax now lying upon the table of the Houit of Commons. If the Ministers and their Opponents Would each select an, equal number of towns or districts that have petitioosul against the Tax, the average 'would spew that liine,fourths of the pe titioners have nothing to do with it, and tbree-. fonrths of the persona who really do pay Income or Property Tax have not put their names to the Petition ! ! I leave you to draWr your own con. elusion from the facts. Mr. Brougham was wrong in saying, that the poor who do not, are eqnal sufferers with the rich who do pay Income Tax : men iu business do not generally employ inure men than their concerns re quire, and, consequently, if they diachare any of their workmen, decrease . their ,osn profits for the sake of being heavier taxed by the parish, where these men must be maintained, Wily are Mipiiters so ,forul of this Tax, but becluseit is the most !productive . ; and why is it so, bat he» cause the rich are equally taxed with the poor. The fact is, this is the . only TaX where the rich are fairly taxed ; a man must hare a. house to bee in, a bed to lie on, a hat; a roar, and a pair of shoes to wear, and the rich do not actually require more J. admitting the uttnost etc. travegance, a man of a thousand a year does not Wear twenty hats, twenty coats, &c. while I, with little better than a hundred, are obliged to wear two of each. To suppose that Parliament could pledge itself to the people that this Tax should only.cominne during the war, is to suppose that ,nu future Parliament can repeal any law este- Wished in this ; but, the absurdity of this reason ing will appear , Most glaring, when it is seen that the very persons who cry out so furiously against : violating a solenus pledge, propose, in the sant* .breath, a similar or worse-violation, in recoil). tnetidkog Ministers- to broach upon the Sinking Fund, As for the cruelty and torture of exposing& . man's t e al ci reunataoces tot he world, there is more • sound than sense its the , observation, (admitting it to he true) a man of real property cannot he hurt by the exposure ; a man who trades upon fled. oo h s property, that is speculates with the money .Of Qthvr% for. In, own advantage, is not ho nest; and desers es to he exposed—perhaps the major part of the bankruptcies in the kingdom is owing , t.fi these kind of speculations, not that L , mean to Aay that every man who fails is necessary dishonest, bat . that one speculating rogue oilers pulls down to ruin hundreds of very honest men, who have placed confidence in his honour : cats there'be han in exposing such a man I But my letter, I Ifi!kr, is growing tuo long to be.reatt. i, therefore, conclude myself, wars, &c. . Moacitxrm COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday e... Court of Coniroon Council tea! ..heldat Gstifitthsnfil, o.hieh was ittitueroody attended. The COMNittee for General Verposes!presented Report, recoututunding 500 gOinetiato be given in aid of the funds of the. L.ondou Atociliary Na.. (tonal SchoJl, topic which a long; debate •touir. place, which on u divisiim tv sttbStione 2001. ins stead, was. carried, _Oleic being :.for . 2001..414 31 ow : lima it Committee, for Gew,.rai Purposes !venni. mended a picconf 'plate, Of the ytilu of 150 gui neal, to be - presented to Joseph Leigh, Eq. he having held over the said office of Slictitt under peculiar circumstances, much beyond . Um usual period, which was unaninteinsly agreed to. The same Cominittce reconuriedded 200/. to be given in 014 of the Fuoils . of the 110y , 41 for Educating the Chilelrenof the rdor, ww,cn, tha Court agreed to and ordered. A Petition-to the Chum of Lords against the Southwark Bridge Bill, was Agreed to: Mr. WAITHMAN gave notice, that on the next Court day he would make, a proposition , that the Court do petition the House of Louis upon the subject of the Propei ty Tax, and the immeosoa Iktlitary Establishment to be kept up during time of peace. 'LEWES ELRCTION.—(Third Day.)--YeStertjtiy everting the e!ectiutt was Closed fur' tats Borough, its farour at :fir Jon st Bart. AY, Bart. The num• bers were declared by the Returning Officer tts : • Sir John Shelley, Bar! erg . Seeriett, . too Mr. tiCkIILITT then addressed the Electors in on elovent and feeling tuantter.:—Sit J. Stism.sv also returned his th►enks, and declared, that he should fulfil his duty as a Representative for their rough, as an independent and conscientions Me►a, bcr ; hut that be would never cuter iglu a SaCaUVIS opposition to Minima. TilE SUN. at" .