The Sun. — London, England, 1816-04-04 00:00:00

'J't) 1 : 11E SUN'. S s , e - ,obl - eiratimo on 4at its awl restric tions importations, are Much *serving of at tention, esti rioceqsy of tonelsisioth Tile desir able,in theory and the- possible inTractice, th‘ iiile,and the exception; are ttit stumbling blocks of political science and saric-ity besides that, we him st contrarieties, and jump effects -1 which the slow stretch of time:done can rtack. At 20 per troi. linty, the Dutchman may still compete with our dairies, and with Ireland, if she insists on tnii.e, which is the pihicipal dint of all restriction raf competition. Besides, that when butch fresh butter is exsitttled Irons this market, which is Ore,- ferret) as the readiest aml the nearest,' with a trine more salt, it Will compete with the Irish in Portugal. and the numerous Atlantic Isles, *bleb tite the markets that determine its value • The 611Cq)ne'ss of Dutch .cheese is Its only re toitiniendialio nail a 'very strong .ont with the poorer classes. In finance, something radical will be ielnited, and cannot long be avoided. We should be pre pated foi it, if taxes Onnot be paid, or will riot be submitted to, other remedies !oust be resorted to, 1 inclose you an article for the notice of your readers contradiction will be as useful, or more so, than assent to its bearing ; necessity alone will determine the matter, and conduct speculation but Hole, VALUE OF MONEY. A principal eatise of the 'difficulties end distress of the time passing, is the iluctnation of value of our nominal currency. 'file notion of money hes ever been that to en unvarying standard, by which all other commodities might be compared ; but our looney, or currency, has become the very reverse of this, so as to create and increase much error o f estimate, and confusion of property end values. When the farmer sold his wliettt for 5/. Ioe. per quarter of [Link mother paperosod the public at!. ditor received hut one varler of wheat pc r ann. for his 1001. lent, things were in some proportion ; the cultivator could then afford 'o pay 40 or 50/. of taxes out of this price ; but when the price of wheat i 3 set at 45 to . 50s. the quarter, the stock .holder nit* hate more t h an two quarters per annum, and the same moutit of taxes is required, Ohio ere strweely changed; neither proportion to'r p:opricti exist any longer, it cannot so coo. tinne hole, nor should. ' • When money Was !cot to the State, or that i'inte . ndy. 'or paper credit, which has been substi tute l with us for money, the virtual agreement of the time has been on an averege about 51. 10*. per 161101111 of ansinity interest for the 1001. One hundrsd pounds, theo, representing about 20 quariers of wheat, or 20 ounces of gold, and pro. perly Mffigli 110. 1 rote reload 11111111iiliyin ne ouro, -- tutist tleeetVe double this return in wheat, or 2I ounces of silver, and has muck changed his relative and proper position, wits the land and irs produee; or with the property, industry, anti reveune of the State. Our monetary system is preyed to be very badly toiled to the borrowing or funded systeme—no evity in now existing between them ; the depre ciation its the currency price of all property, and the increase in thy power or velue • of that cur nw}, hes nearly passed.all the property of the country into the bends of the public creditor, pen. sinner, half-pay oCer, and official salary ; for slow that 5/. of currency will command 20 ounces of silver, instead of 14, and these 20 .ounces of si!vvr trill pereheee two quartette of wheat, or other things its proportion, they have fallen into the command of one-third more of metallic mu stey, tool to the claim of double of other property, more than the intent, spirit, or equity of the egreemeut looked to, or is proper. This has been iu some degree remedied, though impertettly; by the Property or income Tax of recent ; the abolition of which, instead of its increase, which v:oulci have been wiser, and With proper reeolation, better suited to our con. tlition, bus left this disproportiOn in its whole ex cess of oppressing; t in the default and disuse of this tax, some remedial correctire is much Want ed • what is f e lt a t thi s t i me , i t i s to be hoped, will not call on our attention, by an increased in tensity of suilering, but he assisted and eased, such as it is, by every prudential regulation. The load anti reressive ineurnbmee of an ex thSive taxation, should be lightened and relieved by every practicable retrenchment of establish smolt, civil, military, end administrative ; the et&ets of which insystem, infloence; and totem*, will be ;wore oholestime tool powerful then even its direct ecolioniy. This, however, carried to the farthest point of practical propriety, cannot reach the exigence and oecesbity of our etnlition, nod at the utmost is, by re-action, greatly dinii liished in egret. If all the salaries and pensions of establishment throughout the realm were re anted Dee-half, this would not ease anti assist wo e financial position in that amount, nor in more than half 01 it ; the rest would be lost in the re. slimed income Of the taxes. air, : /rt. trout be inure direct, and of grcater since, # Property and Income' ax of 10 or :20 per cent. cannot now be proposed, the ciivif dents be reduced one-fifth, the interest of money set at .4 per cent. instead of 3; salaries, pensions, and, pay, reduced in proportion with Teln6 kind Wages. This will go near to restore the'equilltainin of value and property, debt - and fitltation, ret time and income, with equality, and Wittig/Ift ininitiet, If the saute end can be neenin= Xlitiled by any tither and better means, be it so j . the ohjeet a not the instrument, is the one tibing zieedla. 'What is our Condition ? what 'fire' iti is t i to ? what is the necessity, and what the 0(104 justice of foe case 3 what Is and whist . the practicable tentedy, or ? tOr Are -cannot esi,pect. at once the ease and the itigintlihr, 'of which tlle wAstes'ttnd scourge of tvar, the anticipatiln of our gleans, have de prived foi a dine.; in the,ease of the arAgesots tilt priEe of bread, :the4!, atitl beer, is .now reduced, per week is more than' equal to 15s. of bite l and those who hate been nsed to receive 30s. and now refuie to take 27a. should, if 301. were hitherto the proper rate, he,coutent, as they must, with 255. - The.chief difficulty and Ow of the moment lies in our nionetory system, 01;0110 which, by pre serving names and terms, when things and Milli« ings are,altered, an *quit order and inequitable disproportion obtains. The public creditor, when lie lent hislcapital, stipulated' for un'annuity, in come, or re-payment, proportioned or equivalent to that- loan, and which could only be intended to .be measured by all the common commodities of life, gold, silver, corn, meat, And others ; at these he now , claims, command., and collects, 'from one-third to double the amount and quan tity of his contract, and the interest of the bar gain ; a little farther, and hr will take all. Were labour well paid, and every labourer, as he should. be, RH economist of a part of his earnings. Ca pitnl would accumulate fast and usefully, and the interest or use of money, or capital, would as usefully and properly for all, and agreeably to nature and, propriety, soon be reduced to 3 per cent, or lower, Hi it has before. been, and where it should stand in a period of peace, industry, and social pet ruanence and security. 31st Mstein, 1516. R. FUENCII PAPERS. An atrnointu crime lime been committed at Dijon. A man calling himself an Officer tmtrder'. ed a woman with whom he had lived several mouths, by severing her head frd in Iles body with a razor. The hardened wretch castle a few days sofier.,jutto-1 Iiew.TICAT irltich he sold for a mere trifle. PARIS ' Aram I.—A Berlin Journal says, that the Prince Itoyfil of Sweden is nqw selling the pro p'erty which he posseises in France. Three persons named Anionic, Blanchard,- and Lebdil, had the audacity, on the 12th March, 'to make seditious proposals to the inhabitants of the town of Carhaix. !laving been repulsed tvitG indignation, they ilea, and were found on the 21St, concealed tinder a stack of straw. Arnonit having fired upon the soldiers, was killed ; Blan chard is in prison ; and Lebail has. wade Ids Seventeen new pieces have been played during the month of March at Paris, and what is very wonderful only three have been rejected. VIENNA, MARCH 20.—The Archduke Rudolph° is about to uasurue the ecclesiastical habit, and he will be nominated Prince Primate ofilungary, which is the first dignity of the kingdom. Tire marriage of the Archduchess Clementine with a Prince of the house of Naples is not to take place. Letters from the North shy, that difficulties have arisen which are likely to retard the execu tion of the Treaty of Niel, between Sweden and Demnark. Roma, ALtacit 15.—0 n Holy Thunday it is expected that forty-two Jews, six Lutherans, five Lug isle, and several other individuals, will so lemnly renounce their moil. '!'l►e most illus trious pctsunagas in Rume are to serve as god fathers. NArtes,.ll,linctt 17.—Two frigates yesterday left this Nati having troops on board. it iy . thought they.are intended to reinforce our expedi: lion against the Algerines, who continue to infest the coast of Italy. A French ship having fallen in with a Corsair, while attacking a OCIIOe3B vessel, obliged the bar.. barians to renounce their enterprise._ Preparations are making for the departure of his Royal Highness and'his august daughter. It PI expected that his Royal Highriess a ill piocred to klorence, where important negacia lions. are to open' relative to. the affairs of Italy..l It Is possible, that the liitlg of Sardini a. istai'ittitit he at Florence with the Emperor of Austrid. PARIS, MA Wu 31.---There was to-day agrand review in the Champ de Mars. At one o'clock •the cannon announced the arri.:al of Monsieur, the. Duke and Duchess of Angouleme, and ;be Duke of Berry. At two o'clock, their Royal Highnesses having•placed themselves opposite the Military School, the troops defiled in • the most perfect order fur an hour and a half. At half past three they quitted the ground - amidst the firing of the .cannon, anti returned to the Castle of the Tuileries. The number of troops ,present may be estimated at 25,000 men. They had with them GO pieces of ektnnon, His Majesty's health is perfectly restored. iro;mortow, the first of April, Marshall Qudi nbt will succeed the Duke of Baum) as Major- General of the Royal Guard, and the Duke of llaurc by the Prince de Poix, as Captain of the Guards, The Duke of Amnont is to take the office of first Gentleman of Chamber, in place of the Doke of Duras. Fratice, 1 Dunaj(liadre. I)trr.-1 rianibtirelt; t 1 'JutAiit, PRICE 01 TittS DAV At dock, shut 3 Cent Red. dint 3 live Ct. Conic. 6O 1 jive Cents. Whitt A per c- f l. N. Ann. 091 90 I Rank 14. Ann. shut ... , P STOCKS 'WeLlit: o'CLOCit• ;." * • India Builds, I. :Is. ilii.: Kitelieq. Bills, 3s. ilts. Zs. pr. Oilittjulti. 15i Itijil Ditto ft riquiriii, Culls. iii Aicount,Uof GI . . COURSE OF.EXC.I - IANGE, TOiSDAY, Argil.. 2. Atiliter t ian t '' ' ' • ' ' - S8 81. 2 tri: Ditto, at Sight Sd U Aknaterd44l, . . Ditto, at Sight . , 1 12 . . ltottertlatu ' ' " " " . Antwerp • • ll IGE.Nlistiei Ilatuburgh " - '" ' ' S'i 0 241's. Allows •••4! ' .• SA 1 2i Us. Bremen Paris, 1 Day's Date ' ' " '23 10 . ~ • Ditto IStitirdeatix, ditto ...i t .. .. 25 .::41 Fi alai tomtit the Main ' Nl4iirid 'Ali Effective Cadiz liareclutia . 33 _liiiboa . S-1f St. Sebastintes 'IS S,nilir :l3 . Gilaaltar (;nuns... 41 ----Venice Nlaltn. . Palermo .. 116 per Oz. Lisbon fei Oporto Mu .I;toeiro .. Onblin .. .... 14 ...----C0rk..... 14} per Ceut. Agin of lb, Bank on Holland.... 2 Portugal Gold, in Coin l. l 2 0 per Oz. Forelgirti'ultl, in Bars 4 2 0 New Doulakons New Dollar:. • ' o 5 I Silver, in i}4ls, Standard Ilan! vrATF.A. AT Losums muDGE To-molutow. at., 7. livehilig, 6.3 minutes otter 7. TIIE SUN. 1101.1111 nuts DICEI:11 rALsum mizaAt? LONDON. ringiSDAY, L 4, 1816. Extracts from the Paris Pallets of Monthly 'ire contaitted in a preceding column. Accounts of preparations for the marriage of the Doke of Beam ; of a grand Review ; pull the usual chit chat of the ddy are all their merits. The chief matter before the House of Com mons, last night, was a Motion by Mr. Tiettstel, (similar to that which he made in the Session 1796.7) for the Abolition of the Office of Seere lary of State fur War and Colonies, or rather for !he transfer of the duties of that important Office :o the Home Department, the Board of Con rout, or any other except that in which it is at present, a n d Board or Depattm what ever, ent so ably and beneficially eon tiluas ct ie eld7 for ye a rs, A ' saqttesion of economy this is scarcely its s u y t ( t ) l l l l n , (4 .i i ; e_ h e .t : t fc e r i t t l e a;;* re-organize iu for j a t,: n a tl ; : u e t from one Plate to another, would atnonut to very neatly the aunt tviiich the Colonial Office costs as a sepurate establishment. Asa question of expe;- di eme y, it is, however, more worthy of attention. Th e grounds on which the retention of the office seas defended were principally the great increase of busin.'ss . from the increased number and itu portancoof our Colonies; their not being yet es similiated by laws or government to the British Constitution, and 'consequeutly requiring much distinct and dissimilar consideration ; the uti lity of haVing undivided 'attention paid to them as a grand national object, and not handing them over as a secondary unit subordinate trust to any other udministration, with more pressing and im perative duties to perform ; and lastly, the instil ficiiney olany possible saving that could be hoped for (from 7 uv 8000/. to 10 or 12,0001. pet. an num), to compensate for the risk of having the affairs of our Colonies neglected, Or managed in a slovenly manner. 'to these arguments, which were urged by Mr. Goulburn gentleman who well knows what the labours of thedepartment are, and to whose eminent discharge of the fituctions belonging to it the coun try is, perhaps, as much indebted as ever it was to an individual in a similar situation) it might have been added, that the general increase of all public business of another potent reason for not r ove • loading any Department so as to cause stagnation, delay; and consecutive evil ; especially at a period when the necessity of retrenchment is causing the dismissal of every Clerk and Officer whose ser vices can be spared. I Mich Was said ci the decrease of business in many Offices from the return of Peace, and the reduction of various brioches of service ; anti to a. Certain extent, this is undpubtedly true. But peeve brings also with it new duties to perform, and it. might have at least served as an answer to the parties who employed this argument, that their own Motions. for Returns, Accounts, and Papers, (hundreds- of them as useless as' they are cape!). sire, and as troublesome as they arc useless), hire givers more employ:nein' to ' official persons in every depattmenti and have Cost them more t ime and the Country more money titan the for.. Mer have been relieved by the aw cessation of c duties parti4 , or the letter lightened liy any re. ii.c4rltiletits to wit' CIA tip einl leis ~~ dot' u►ents h=is led. On a division; tliprt V:eti 182 %Vil ~ • fo: the Ciintitinanee or tVe O ffi ce; and 100 fur ilia iuotion=-=`3aj'ority 82. " nx.' . " In flit course of the (Wienssiert On the abort ibbject, i< stuirt folly 'took place between 'l'Lsessir and kr. Roic. The f4oruier speakfag from perion'al eXpetieke, " It was very easy tb make business ;ppear 'very 011Yre, rihere a place was to he kept, and he asserted that ther.ewail no sinerure place iu whiCh it wet not possible to make each ati appeararice and bn'stle of bosineiS fur a short tithe, es trona *heat irime grounds why it shikild nut be ehuli3hed. When be held the ohicc of Treaiurer of the N,lvy, he funod by 0 1 1).", rieu€t that it wa s easy to 1;e bnsify etiyloeti for an hour ari houi and a half every der to htep a itituatiuse .. Nothing was mnie easy thmi to gibe Orders to a Clerk.to uzakr out some long returns, and to conic down to the House in tlfd evening with a Irrge bundle of papas, what!) it Nvluld appr4 had been arranged with vist labour anil care." — We should have thought that the Right Hog. GentlemAtt's eXperience also have suggest ed to him that the idling practice of himself an d friends, when id place, did rpit su lfite to kceP' theta ; anti that it Wilt proildbly their non attention to public business which precipitated: hits, from his Treasurisliip, iod them from OM' other Offices. Indeed Mr. Rose bore witness that the !tight. Honourable Gentlentan had left nu train addl . " genre or application in the Nat) , Office kvlit c, might not well have been the consequence of #"rff zeal and integrity in the performance of his alai,. as he had so c a ndidly described. This .(etovl was like caustic to the Right lionourable•ex' Treasurer, and he accused Mr. Ross of 40114 . several lucrative offices, which llCCtliatl.tiri being, true, we shall only state . in extenuation; that whenever the Accuser or any of his frieeds.es3 et slim the Country as splendid a list •of serYic.; done, it will with pleasure and gratitude retti'id: him or them with equal emoluments. No London Brewer has yet ,follotve the ample of Mr. Counts, of .the Isle of This is passing strange ! Malt is a mere drug the market, and it the only drug ,they mt.; they, ought to lower their prices. !lops are also dieol'e r horses and their toed are cheaper ; 11U104,1 1 81)6 ",, is cheaper ; rents of houses cheaper.---eV 4 %4 111'34. cheaper but the produce of their Broverigi PRINCIt REGL,NT'S 11EALT11.—Ytsterdity 11113„ answer giveit to the inquirers wus—' , his Hopi ', Highness continues better." • L 111 1.7 E 114 u h i d •I (-owl-- IteoeNT's Coutur.—Yesterday Carlton-house, which was attended b.y the Ldt a Chance!lor, the First Lord of the Treasury, 1 ". Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the lixehetpler. the Secretaries of State fur the tionte and Wa t '• Departments, the Lord Steward the Lord Cbaut- bcrlain, the Master of the Morse. eke. The 'te corder o f L on d on was admitted i n t o t h e pre"a it - of tlie Regent, and m a .t e Ii ,t,1,„,.( ut the c0417.,- victs wider sent clive of death at the hot I'et llll4l . l Sessions, at the Uld Yesterday the Princess Sointa of GtoutestEk and a numb er o f N u bi lity paid their respects, uud the Count . and Countess MUNsTEIt were ilitrf: duced, to her MAJILSTY at 111 U Qilei:O'S&lCE. 01'., six o'clo c k the 'lattice REGENT gent to di" with his Royal Mother at the Palace. The most inconsistent of all the inconsistencif ir in the bite attack on the Treasury fur initigatini the severi t y o f t h e Excise Laws,. was the voica 4 that Phi/anthropist, Sir SAUUEL ROMILLY, ill f a. Your of the utmost rigour of the most rigorous:. Mr. BROUGHAM'S Alotion relative to the a cel• dental fifteen bushels of Salt, which got the into so bad a pickle on Tuesday night, w" tived, not by a majority of 76, as ;111 the NiOr n Papers have butted.. hut by a majority of 92, tt"' numbers for the Motion being 48, and H gaiitsC it NO. It appears (says a Morning Paper) by the latest advices from the . Mediterranedo, Spain had refused so give up the Aleerine bet which the Aniesican Commodore SHAW claimed in behalf of the Ilgerine i..lation. The Antc►i . cans appear desiroub of fastening a quarrel 0 1" / Spain on this subject. The Bank Bill has not been taken up ill tttr Atnerkan Congress, but its friends intend, to try to force its passage ; the result, however, -w lO ,. uncertain. The new Governor of Cattada, General Dstog° MOND, id arrived at Quebec. A iticoosge, sign' t by his Xxcelleney as Adniinistrator in Chief, w" communicated to the House of Astenibly oil 014 13th February. . . An Ordontiance of the King of FRANCS is ( 4 41 to have been issued, for re•iorgiiiiizing 1 1 '' Legion of.Honotir, which in triture is to cansi" of an unlimited number of Knights., 2000 Office"' 400 Commanders, ISO Grand Officers, nud tighti Grand Crosses. The h widow of Genets! Vissoft4orott bits con.. sewed to the tencOval of hir husband's remains to a spot ou which it is proposed to erect a nationat monument to his memory. to her answer to dos , President of the Milted States on the subject, shg: y$ —" Tutight by the . great example Which ' have so long had. before me, never to . oppOse triF . private wishes to the public will, I must congeof to the request made by ConAress, Which you had the . goouness to transmit to me and in - doing • this, I need not, I cannot say, what a perificu of Individual fecliug I niaige to a sense of public, duty.".