The Sun. — London, England, 1816-03-01 00:00:00

AMERICAN l'A PERS. A New YOrk Paper of the 30th titt, has reached 'this couotry It states, that the copy of a Mee. President had just been, received from. Washington, and that the Message was in 4;ouipliance with an. application from the Ho us e of Representatives for offiein! II:fon - nation. and that it was acconqhtnied by a variety.of letters that :bad passed between the Spanish Minister D.. Oois, and •Mr. Monroe, the American Secretary of :State. The former complained that the Re , publicans had assisted the insurgents in t he Spanish Colonies, and observed that his Government could nut consider such assistance to rebellious subjects as Conformable to the amicable relationaimbsist. iug between the two contries.' Mr:Monroe, in his answer, 'adverts to the Pro• clamation of the .Presideitt, prohibiting such in terference by, the citizens of the United States, and tem:irks, that, such interposition was. not within. the cognizance ,of the Government at 'Washington.' The Spanish Minister also le rcquires, that no ships or vessels belonging tothe instirgents, should he purnitted to enter, any of the ports of the United States. To this it is re plied, that no •shipping can be excluded from the volts of the Re uUlic, which do not coilltl the denomination of pirates, according to the known laws of Marithue_States, and the ackuovv. !edged rules of maratitne intercourse. • A third demand was, that a citizen of the., United States should be given up, who had fur. ' pitched the insurgents with arms and ammunition, mid other means'of hostility, against the present state. It was again insisted by Mr. D.,Onis that the country west of the.riyer rerdidi constituted a part of the Flotidas, and as, being tkie property of Sp,&io, the American .authoritio:iWete bound to rirrender up the country to.- . msch . 9fficers as the King of Spain should appoint V rcceiite it under their protection and control., The Reptiblican Secretary` had opposed all the: claiins, and cgntended-tor the right of the rican Government to the territory demanded. It .inutcriatiosl t hat •t he intention of Spain for this applicattostOe to procure a communication 'with the rivet,Aississipi, by the way of Creek Thompson, and some other channels as high as the neighbourhosid of ,Natches, and the Ameri cans arc determined to regain the sole use and command of that river. The luestions are 410 W before the ,Leg;slature of the Republic. It. scents Cert4in that.that Jelly will' not Accede to any of the propoiitious of the zipanifili • • MAIL. Auutvra)--1 Lisbon, t Giterniwy Hid Jersey, 4 Dnnalarleir, \Vottrfro Frioec t 4 I latnill-4), 3 CiuttcaLluriiii, 1 Hull - arid, 1 Gug.r.nsvy 401 Jolty. . ritiVi; OF sTocics • • Tots Air AT rwttArt O'cLocif . llNtsk Stock, *Si . , ~ India 134indf, of 'pr 3 ver i , ea, z ireii ,_.., . 11 Am._ ihi Exch. Isiitb, flii, dii. 14..111.ig. 3 lies ( Olt. COllll. 61 if Chutiitint, 1 141 . 4 per t :clad. i 7 Ditt9 for raymrtit, ~ 6 pur et.Nut`Y 41111.1110414 00 y. • Conii. fur Accontit o seli . , li:ai l .sl4. Ann. 15 141.1(414 I . .. . HIGH WATER XI LONDON mum F, TO-MORIMW. Morning, Sminuteii after 4. j Evening, 30 minute after., .4. TOIL SUN. ItsLlll4 (i,UI3 PICIMIG ►AV. I UM AU PEAT? LONDON. r, iv.diectr 1, 1816. AIRIVALS ritOM Sr. 11ALENA. Majesty's ships Medway, Liverpool, Tamer, end Harpy, have arrived from the Cape of Good Dope 11(1 Sr. Helena ; the former et Portsmouth, b.tvnig Admiral Ty'r.ea's Flag, the three latter at , Plytflooth. His Majesty's ship Gttanicas hits got roand front the River to Portsmouth, and will thcre receive on hoard Mr. WARD, for Lisbori. His Majesty's ship Man:tulle, Captain MaYest.r., has also arrived at Portsmouth from the River, and tvill there wait the arrival• of the Foreign Ambassadors for the Continent ; she will then proceed tin St. Helena, and hoist the-Admires Vlag on the station. The rumis rather decline, from an appreben zitni thit the Income - Vax may be abandoned.— M , vc:., we believe, was . apprehension more gr()tinerets. The Opposition arc as proud of their Minority cif 1-21, as if it etc a -Majority of so many , and indeed *then we, consider the pretensions of the Leaders, 514ii1 the character of the Party, it does appear that, with all adventitious aid, they have cense to be elated and astonished on finding thetn- selves in so numerous a company. We yesterday rgniatketi on the case With trill& Taxes might be , objected to, and the diffienity of suggesting per-' fectly pleasant and ,agreeable bonbon* for tit io tiiipinsible National Expenditure. To thi, the Organ of the Faction to.day replies, that, Itylepentlent AI- embers are not called upon to suggest expedients, vesonrces, or taxes to lkli 7 Jn i s ters., The duty rests solely ty„ith the latter, who are paid for their trouble." And truly, trouble endliglt the Party :are resolved to give them if ~thpyAan I no man ca ms las WitgeS With- mush toil and bibottr a a Minister. But we beg to enter our protest against. the above (Inettlite. It is the definition of erections Oppoiition„, sad dot th e deWiPtimi 'nl.".independetit Metithers."-4 The farmer are not celled On to suggest ex pedients., &e. because tiseit object is to get into poiver by embarrassing the existing Govern intuit, and not ; to serve the Cotintry. Yet surely it it theinost positive duty of all really in dependent Umbers, to aid and advise: the ser vants of the Crown in whatever may tend to pro mote the interests of the nation. But, says o.e Chronicle, they are ", paid for their trouble." Ilinc- Wiz lachrymal/ These. Patriots eau conceive no oblibittion to,' public service unless there is payinent for tht trouble. — This is their grand secret 3—reward; ortlie Lope of reward, is at the bottom of, all their pretended love of , country. No song, no supper . ; no pay. nolVoilt from the Opposition.. Their business it not to smooth down or lessen the'iliffieulties of the State—they arc not paid for Mat; but their business is to inetea.se those difficulties, anti throw olistacles in the way of .every expedient, tax, or resource propoied---for they hope to get into place ) and be paid for that!. . •• In another part of our impression, tie base in serted a curious Comtnuoication on the subject of the Property Tax : a mixture of sterling truth on that point, and of com mon place. revolutionary rant upon °theft, We have also copied a few plain and judicious remarks from the I.,ivorpoul Courier on. die same subject. There is, we obstrve, a Meeting to Lit beld at the Mansion-House next Wednesday, to consider of Petitions against the 'fax. It will, no doubt, be-numerously attended ; but front evvry thing we can w,certain.o(the opinion of thr City of Lon don, a moderate Counter-pctitiou ti'oold, it set on foot, ise-sigue4.l by au inuurnsr majority of the hest-informed anti must wealthy .aud tespect4ble Citizens. Speaking from . ' piitpai Observation, we may itotice,: however . , the extraordinary contrariety , Of opinion w4.ich exists on, this questiOn. Intel ligent individuals, with nearly the sante Sources of instrutttiVG 'and looking almost..to the, same practical. results, Willie ; 100 cal° ou the sabject....4 One assure* you that:the ruin of our Funds watt& ensue:Were ••Mittiste' is toiled tilt tin tupejtit:e i 'an: other: asserts; that such en eveitt would improve theta. l e ate certainly of the former belief, mid 4annot 6'lll4th - eta the paradox involved in this pnaitio~ti t ' tite.,:2l4iort is weig4ed; claw n " - by the »payment of, ,ilitstrest on a Heavy debt, 'therefore, Von mutt borrow mon; to itlicire. it spoken of us Pb-. taint d in this way were never to be repaid : as if this notable eicp'etlirnt for absorbing m ore of the , . Capital of the Country'. in au unproductive gii!ph, instead of leaving it' to invigorate. i n dttstt:y of every kind, were " he ba*ati , and the ctul.4ll' here" without a tingicilill cortse 9 uence hereafter.'. Other substitutes 'art: metitintied: Take, says one, the llirelaitneil Chancery funds, i. e. appro priate that which does not and cannot belong to :you. This step, we fancy, our adtuireis of , lino- NArA Writ will support, for it would precisely re ! ' iambic his seizure of the funds . 1g Public Clari ties. The British people will s never ~saugtion such . injustice Ills. British people indeed, if we mean by that phrase oinateart.twentleths 'of the population. has rio reasori but to be sit tis6cd with 'the income Tax, which spares tins majority, and falls only on those Islio are able to bear it. It never could be said of them, therefore, at it has been falsely pretended was said, that they, the People, betrayed an ignorant impaiience of taxation, though it might be 4ustly said of their misleaders, that they betrayed a viclted impatience of taxation, In spite, then, of the many petitions, which have been obtainel, we trust that Ministers will persevere in their painful but necessary . , duty, and. supported 41 the solid sense of the Country, and what is'more, by a consciousness that they are acting for the best interests of the great mass of the People, prove by carrying this measure, that theypossess that firmness in doing light, without' which, they would be unfit for their important situations. Three wounded Soldiers were seen yesterday taking a pot of beer together, at the sign of the King's'fiend ; and it is understood that they not only talked *boat the llattle of Waterloo; but -expressed a hope that their Pensions would be increased. ,The danger of thus , permitting the Army to become a deliberative botly is WO imminent, to escape the zeal at' patristic Mem bers of ,Parliament, mid we rejoice to learn that r , . ,J is to bring the sub jcct specifically before -the House o r C om . mans. A constitutional and important branch of this very momentous affair will further be taken up by Mr. TIBANTY (seconded by 111r.138toeTT)is —ttic soldicis war drinking the egnototate from Knightsbridge, nevir the Barracks, mid neither WITITIIREAD . S urtr •cALVIIIIT'S entire : a m t silt ; more t*) conceal their dark doings, they bad en veloped tlieniselvel in a cloud one -after this discovery donht that it is the design of Ministers to erect a military despotistii and eradicate our liberties ? . . • We understand that the'''rerinisite 'windier of Officers have already been selected by the Admi ralty, for the superintendance of the.ships of war laid up in ordinary at the Ports of . POrsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and Sheerness,— It is not intended that abOve.a certain'and limited nember of 'Officers should be appOinted to the divisions at each,_of the places above mentioned. • NAVAL NEWS . ~~ r, DEAL,. FED. 29.---Arrived,, anti saiied for tAi' River,' be Azores, RIDDELL, fron► Palermo.— Caine down from the River the Catharine, Mara, for St.. Domingo, and sailed ; Thomas, Os itotratiz, for Grenada, and sailed ; Lady Castle reagb,, SIMPSON, fur St. ilelencand China, and remains" in the Downs, with the Cambri►ige and Coldsdeam, for the same destinations.—Wind N. W. 'PoßTsMount, Fitts. 29.—Arrived his• Majesty's ship Mrdwarfrom the Cape of Good Hope•; his • •Majest'y's• ship Granicus from the Eastward ; Lis ;Majesty's ship Newcastle from_ the East ward Uliza Francis transport from Gibraltar ; bard . Wellingtorr transport, from - Gibraltar ; Zephyr, - Scorr, - from Messina—passed by , for ,Staugate Creek. Sailed the Henrietta, 'lll:rurtml, •foil liarobnrgh; liritisli Queen transport for Co!4 ; Fort William, JAMrs, for Madras and China ; 1 Milbank, READ, ,and British Isles, for the Medi, terranean ; Juno, for Plymouth'; James, Smyrn, for Gibraltar• ; Prospect, fin WITON, for Madeira. Wind N. • • '• • • •• • ' FEj. 29.- , .--The vessel thgt took fire yesterday oti.Langnard . Fort, proves to ihe NUSIIIT, of Berwick : bei berry r ., off ‘iiiiliont damage: The fire 'only burnt the ti‘Z furniture, and eauseda. few holes - to: becnt in n th deck to throw water' Soijea the Beaorivy' 0:mkt:I for Holland., unit th.e Lord. Nelson paCket, for Cuxhaven., Nitli .With Wails ithiltassolgers.— %Vim, N.•-• •.. . . . . . Piit.motnt; Pen: 2.7. --Arrived the ArAbeila packet, with mails frolu.,Lisbo . ti, iti,dnys; be Aralielht - Ociset . left itt Lisbon the .Duke of Kent (2;) , 'and - Puke .pf Mkribormigh pftekets, Tice Puke of Clareove iehooner; LOWAY, sailt'!dt froitythis.port for Lisbon,. felt in With 41 . 1)PISSIIIU . Shill, Ail the Bay, bdttont from ,Cortio ti'n.fOr BilbOEi;abci 'bayed fourbf the crew.—Witid. West. . _ PLYMnUTH, ran. 26.—Came in tlia Liirerpool and Tamearigates, and Harpy sloop of War, from the c ipe • ilf . acield' The Medway frigate c Admiral TYLart, has r a•.soil tip Channel, front Helena...—Mind N. Ay. Commodore Ilonstur 013Ittrtm sailed on the lOtit last October. from Madras; in the Wellesl e y, 4, for Colimbo,. to convey, the late King of cminv and family to Madras. Accordi►►g to the statement of the British Naval Force, op to this day, the romber of ships and vessels' in commission is 26e.:--ordinary and rc• "414 , boilding', 39.—Toral, 715, The QUEEN and` Rnyal Highnesses the Princesses CH4%lll.ol'l'B of- WALES, ELIZAERTIIi' end MAITY, with their attendants, will leave the' Pavilion at Brighton this day for Windsor. Iler Royal Highness Princess CuattLorra will return .to.Cranbottrri'Lodge.—To-morr ow Prince LE°. l'aLD will leave the Pavilion f or W eymout h , Gloncester LOdge there being fitted for his re ception. A mintber of attendants-of various tie: see ption left town yesterby for Weymouth; in order, to wait on his Highness, 'who, it is said, will remain at IVeytnoitth Until the PRINCE "REV GENT comes to town, - when he will take tap his .resirlencu at the Queen's Palacq.; and the PlillCeis CHARLOTTE at Warwick House, Nn orders had been 'reeeii , ell, yesterday at ale Lord Chamberlain's Office, for tte QuEkN'S hold iog:a Drawing Room On Thursday next, as has been stated.. . • The household servants of the Princess CHAR LOTT*. ot WApts left town yester(lay for 'Cran bourn Lodge, to receiv'licr Rival Hightleis on her return `froth Brighton. Accounts from Italy are said to mention, i thae 14,uctsti BuOrtit4llTE . has converted his property, into specie, and embarked at Ciyita Vecchia 1 , 61. America.—A Morning Pap 6. " that LuctErl set off from Rome with great privacy, but n;ris` recognized at Florence, and that ,the Postmaster bait refused to give, him horses ; that, however, he bad contrive 4 to get on for a mist oetwo fur ther, but finding himself discovered and followed, be had of his own accord turned abont,'und was on his wAy Back to Rome." The i)nty pa,,yabie upon the growth of !lops a the year 1815, appet,irs, by tire Return made to L'adiainent, to have amounteil to £215,441 Bs,, i £i4y Lucy liiuty, section tlailOter of thu Estrl - Lahtettinst, will shouly give,lter hand 0 If' ee STtteNson, Esq. the vi t...zene cantiiitate for c ti Abe Ilth instant, is the 4,ay n ailed for the union. t'IZCIPERTV tONINVIIst SENSE or( Till: ritOPEICIT TAt ~~ "..Great efforts are makin't* in different places to persuade the ptiblic to petition against the tempo , coitinuanee of this tax'; and it is eittainly I )4CA.ffietilt to persuade unthinking persons to pe , . titian against any tax.. Where the case Of new. , siqsis, however, so clearly made nut, we are rea. , ducal to a choice of tells, for all war taxes are evils ; and the wisdom lies ill choosing the IcasC , As a certain sum of money most be raised, for it is easy already to collect the sense of Parliament tipolt the amount of the supplies, we arc stilt pCri snarled, after all that has been written and spokedo that a modified and redUcitt Property Tax is the least ..oithe evils before us, because it is that tax whirl! 4111 press least upon the lower and middle classes, „'gjuisters, we are therefore happy to find; are d ea termiued to propose it to rarlianienti ima`Parlio 'anent wiltiteuwise in pausing before they listed AO the pittier of petitions, however numerous:, which fot3,the most part result from Part', " I ' 3 of information, or a miscalculating- selfisimess..'" We believe Parliament will be displaying g g rett , t act of public virtue a nd disinterestedness, in &Ng, so, for, as they are mostly Mil i n terested i"PPoling the Tax. It will spare thtir avid throw It burthen from them upon the in general. Some landh o lde r s, w e know, or e de• terrair.ed to vote against it, for the expresses( T ess" ' • that they calculate upon b e im; able to let ti'e'r• • • n. fouls better,ia v . :3le of a sueCessful opposo l " It is poor policy; therefor e , for the trading partof the- community to petition-t o be burthene d, r otATe,:thc laud colder, and for the 'lower rauks, tc ' ask the favour or the higher, to ,suff•rr them •to 111 Warm he.trier load."—(LiverOat Courier') [FTIONI . A. CogREStONDtINIT,] The P. etitioners'apinst the Property Trig 7 rec'e'iceil'annnexpecfeil check; the Huraredoe.'°'t; A pet ition,iimilar to t1 1 0.4c have dills signed at Wells, Burnham Fakenhanli ~fl o gham, and otbet, places, .was presented at I 14)1t • 'alt.ftritkion,SatOrdav, the 2-ith nist. ; but the 1 01 ' . -1 ' lowinatAddrepis hiving been circulated a few lo nl " liesT* not(46". : prey , a -sing le , 0. f‘ti cr, ear. Tis — tle , intx s tf'conld oh; Ailed " fi g tt , rt Prtitte for Relict' front the preient AgriciilyarA lliitresse , .. was artfully in . ,inuated into it ; bd r ' 4 ; Counter-Petition, prayina fur a con tinnance r ‘ ) ; . the PrOnertyTax, with atOdifieations'in - favou r periOns'in trade and of limited ineotne, and It"' I 11eforni of Ahnses, wt: as ru t it e d for , 9 ' l .11 intentiett h p re p are d, , (1 . 4 ,..../1 0444 ' Fundhottlers and Persons of considerable V"W evtl • hAvi4g patriotically declared 'their deterininati°ll to stippott it, " Mike ,Parnizr.y and Tedle.tinen 111 the 71:indee,1 rf 11.11 ; " A Petition to Parliament, set on fUot by the t' a ' l " .. 9wurrsan t i great Ca pit..l ists of the . Count .a4aitist rs'• perty-Tas,vill shortly be presented to You for Signn l " ll ,„' -- .. Let.sts,notonyFriends, be deluded ,into this measure, cart bare no 'lnterest in _praying for the ii.cp.alvf•Toni 141* under proper modifications, will fall &boost exclosivelitlP!rl‘ Ittealthy part of the Community. Let II& kelp in n li , 6 thit it is at intention of Ministers to take off t h a t part 4) (1 ' 1. „ "Fax affecting l'enants ; and that if the Tax b e wholly' re pe.ileti,the Public Ilnrdens must Thls now do, upon the tower and middling classes of Society., Petitioners wilt tell yoo, that the Property TO'n 4ll c° 4 Nlinisters to keep up a hirge Stxtuliog Army', to " eravi , e rde Liberties at home and supp Art DeSpotism abroast then petition :itanding Armies. Let us Pe llll :against the whole of the Tax on Malt, aTA x which lcpr .I:;uicultore and deprive the Poor of a wholesome. Dersr6,:. ,/At us petition against the improvident gspenditure of ! 11 . t Ain, Money—against Sinecures and useless Pensions-41011:i . rointly froftision and royal Estravacence.-4,44.10 4111144'5f press Wore heivily than thei the Root of all. our Erits, fa ypctE tiauiug for s i isforta ; on Commons .truAir of , Parrliament.; but never le to P stit.- 4 for:* Ateasureorhich wilt r e move she necessary IturOel” Goe'ernarent , froM the shoulders of the Great 6s . the- fur crir upon our 0w1.." - ' . .., 1 ,1 . Such Are the sentiments of the Farms.'' 11 '; Tradesmen In the Hundred of Halt, and st` ch ' ' d fe d is believed are the teal sentiments of the s " ni ' beription of pefioni I n most , i t ti.e county, although in same instances tilt) ? vfil have been'eljeled into the- e x 'nof a e°". ' - , pressto I not trary,opinion by sqeeious pretences. Let 13- L a ti• regard the interested clamour of many -an , , other psrts ~,.. - owners •and Capitalists, who oppose die IP - tr ' „ the: 0 , 46,11 . nd of its bin untonstitation al : SI '''' &iquld Itfulr.nothing from theni about th e COll ititlttion, if .the Tax did s o t touch, their ocl ', '/tWets:-- We want ito privileged exemptions (gir l ' 'Taxation in this country. Let us, therefore , Pru° / I 0 tett against the inquisitorial and oPll rci -s to . powers given by the late Property Ta x Arts c Cotmuissioners :and Surveyors as. they '-' ffec g Tradesmen and persons, of scanty .income; b., never let us forget, that it is the ethyl's% olliC!'. will eoel a rich Mitt. who lives like a lslg4ft rtiv to pay lice a Gentleman. . Feb. iii, I SIG. if ti 41 ".. be Scotch Jeri ttttrt last week tleci-e iljt! iikottettre of tit - of '. son w ho cc' . putitt, 4 pet. by an° 1110 Ct i fite,"file WWI and pes► being gtliko other, wiis nu signature tit nii►