The Sun. — London, England, 1816-01-24 00:00:00

.14 r 4 a SITUATION of the Bilvrisu EMPIRE, IN THE YEAR !RI( ; TIEING IN CONTINUATION TO:1110iP. OF TIM TV.AWS 1814 AND 1815 4{id►essed to the EMU.. of LIVERPOOL. • LET - rfit attnuary 1, nits. hFY nof t t.ittontia return this ' flay, k'alistomary to offer-to our friends and to our Ifeititaintauces ttie periortkeel .repetition of what ore, commouly Called, the, compl . ittlents of the tvason—our congratOations on any favourable tivvnts miry bave.mecitired in the course of the lirecetijng year; end, Our best tvislies for the coutinuanee of their fortunate eerier through the journey of life. • • 'l'o., you, my Lordloin . W6 i ngratulatiims on the . ,4 91k-, • , , pr!)11011119 situation lo i tr a t jcicountry, wi , ose affairs you have beeti.oloSlMtAnatlininister, will agsume a higher .tone and mane' cOmmantliog energy of langnage, than the minor considerations Of private life', and tlie iiitle interesting events .. of humbler stations, I shall have tO offer to you my most vineere anti heartfelt acknowledgments of the well. directed talent, and the promptly exercised vigour ‘e!)ielo have ,enabled you to effect, in so short a periotil pf . jinle, ouch a coMpletefultilincnt of the pi.odiations in my last * addresses. to your Lord fl,in. Oil the subject of the " Bit domitunt civile Aniongst the numerous events, which, in this c:Foribiovs and itnoable,worlti of ours, appearing . 4(1 proulke much pritua facie evil, have yet been ,uhimattly productive of great perinafient bond,'] lt o :'irv: w it Where to• select a tome promi tl eut or inStonce ttniti the second irruptio n o f t h e (:; n rori t o into territory. There - were many things to bc regretted in the mate of Europe at the conclusion Of theiwitr::in I .1; there were some tanbieh no mind of sound political judgment could yiehrits entiriand perfect aippro;),ltioit ; .46 .11,11 c nu fait bit,: des elutes avant dint/raper la raison." - The throne of Frauee %VHS too feeldystioporto to enable its lawful owner to exercise a due (Hs- , elimination in the punishment of guilt, 'and the seward of fidelity ; the abettors of rebellion walk ed abroad iu all the unblushing assurance of per-• sonal secority,und'held alokitheir undiminished heads in contemptuous defiance of their legal So vereign ; the niiiereantlSTq, .oul the treacherous tabcdoyere Were yet uoexectued, and the rest of the faithiesserew i remalned uudeuounced and no' impeached. Indeed, partly urged by overbear ing and iil:periouscircuitistances, aml - paitly, per by:a too gentle and indulgent dik• the Prench 'monarch seethed to have thrown hiniself and his'most-se , :ret councils into the hauls of those who were most able and most dieposed to betray. both.; and the wily- instigator pfNapuleott's nefarious plans of universal con (pest) the unprinCiPled Bishop of Amon ; and the relentless sprinkler of hUtUati bland. during the in`tiny-sl'ifting,seenes. of the revolutionary tragedy, the sanguinary rendre, were, to the astonishment nf (he world, chosen-to- act in concert with the illustrious and unimpeachable Ministers of the 'Ancient thronecof Europe.: But above all, my Lord, the great and leading error seems to have taken pl;tee in the mistaken treatment of the arch Rebel himself'. Every prin tiple both of justice mid expedience, required that the disturber' of the world, the invader of Europe, the usurper of his masters throne, the %'tle unprincipled and sanguninary murderer of D'Eughien, Wright, L'alm, and Holier, should be brought to, public trial, and exemplary puaishment ..instead of pet witting him to retire with his ill got spoils to the mock Majesty ()Finn European sovereignty, though only over " a pelly fortress, and a. barren sid and," in thelittle islet of Elba. And even Our 01%1 beloved country, high as she stood, at that time, in the scale olnations, as the unceasing opposer and check of the all-aspiring Tyrant—unconquered and ,unconquerable, as she Ayes - even then—unshaken by all his eftorts, and laughing to scorn his impotent attacks on her 'lleets, her armies, and her commerce:—Yet even Britein, my Lord, though now the redeemer of . , the puiitioal won Id on the plains of I,V,aterloo, the 'watchful preserver of the peace of Paris on the Jleigias of Montmartre; the guardian of contk Iranquillity at Cambrai, and the secure and incorruptible keeper of the Corsican Savage in his datt at,Snint Helenato what a loftier and more waiv h led Iteight.has site soared in the regions of Tame since the commencement of ,the hist. (tea , paign ; and 4c what halcyon days of peace and prosperity may she•not now look forward, with. m • ore rational anticipation of undilturbed enjoy. inent. • , , • . runependently of tire great principle of duty to soc;ety at large, nothing could have contributed • s ee Lettrrs, 9 ptid 10, tiAtvd :stet March, and 9th April 181.1.-I'ssupitteteet; No: p. 410, • • Has not our Corresp►uudent forgot to pre,4 tlAt letter. i II to this WUrd , standing at:present being 42 millions anti wards of which rather more than 21 -tuilliontk z , are provided for nut . pf - Rids already voted, anti_ the sum' now oiststanoling and unprovided fOr IS 7 20,774,7001., which in Five per Cents. t , th - e' present rate .will create about 24 tr - tiunal stuck (with a proportional increase for any part which may be funded in • Four or Three per Cents.) . The most difficult part of the present unfunded., debt to estimate, will be the necessary loan for • • satisfyiqg the outstanding demands for miscelbs.; neous services not yet provided for. What . this may amount to is not very easy topronouce with • any degree.of certainty ; but if we assume a bout 20,000,000, 1 should suppose that this stontThay . be fully sufficient, and •invested in Three pet" Cents, at about 60, :will 'create 33,000,000 more of stock ; and will swell the aggregate of stock debt to 860,000,000. So that, at any rate, we rutty venture to assure the readers of the Chroni cle that instead of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-five Millions, of which that faithful vehicle of correct intelligence, has so modestly infohned them they are to bear the weight, they may soothe , those exasperated feelings, with which they must naturally reprobate •t the wicked M:nisters who have so wantonly told unnecessarily saddled theta with such agrievous burrhen, by the comforting as suranee,-that it 'will oot ainonnt to quite Sc' much as the oddloo. And on this they mill have the Satislactiou' to find that a Sinking, Food is at work io redemption, the operative powers of whiZ:b have inerea‘sed from the year 1803, when proportion to the debt of tileat Britain, (I have hitherto been s p eaking with reference to that of the United liingdom),• was as one tivBZ', - , to the yeir.lBl3, by whieh.tinie it had• advanced to the proportion of one to 44. lint at that 0,14ew taking jilt . ° consideration the rapid accumulation of the Shifting Fandoind the heavy charge about to he incurre d by the new loans, it w as th oug h t ;expedient and equitable,, to.divide the lowthen with posterity, by•cancelling a considerable part of the redeemed capital, and appropriating the released interest to supply the charge of the loani• tot thac year and .of the succeeding Jones, and , thereby avoiding the iMpositiou of new taxes ; a measure certainly founded on justice, and dictated by.reason anacxnediency; tor. it Is. quite clear to, those who areaegto,inted with the state of the.. money market, that 'if by:the return of : pert K, tkc war charges had ceased at dog time, and the i progressive accummulation of. the Sinking Fund had ciatitined unchecked, a very Ain't period . (I• may venture to say five orsix years . at the IttinotY would loive rendered its operations so,:prejudietal, to the commercial.would,. by•taking such a quad.' thy of stock out of.the market, , as to retpiircflie, interference of the legislature for its rednetton: The measure iu question can, therefore, only be regarded as an anticipation of that. which must at at.y rate have been put in execution in a short: • time ; and anticipated at a moment when the ,ctm 7 ,, begin:flees were most beneficial, by the interven tion,ot a breathing time , fruits fresh •taxittion And let it be recollected with triumphant. pride by every true Briton, that •this ha; taken place hilt* concluding years of a tvat to onexampLi do*- . lion and expense ; when twenty two scuts ot,continued hostilities had swelled.the ex penditure of the country to the enormous amount of 114,000,000 Sterring per antiOnt,t aunt when the salvation of Europe had been effected. - 14 the unremitting fortitude and perseverance of this na. 'ion in . the,., support of burthem nn' other penpie could hart: borne. fur a tenth part of the time. : ; , , • , • I 'Let us, trust, then, my Lord, that the, good sense and patriotic discrimination of Eugliihmen. will enable thein to appreeiiite the mativei7ill those who, to pi'omote the paltry VieWs of thenl-, selves iiturtheirfaction, tvilt , ully misrepreseathe measures of Government, .ants the real situatioit of the country either in finance or general polities. Thank Heaven, my Lard; both the political and tlielinaacial state, of the British Empire at the opening at the new year, are such as t o inspir e a , just and happy confidence in 118 continued a n il inereming prosperity. And whatever temporary eMbarrassnient may appear to have taken place With respect to the interests of the landed part of the community, 'though certainlymach gene ral inconvenience,. had even- great individ u al d; s • tress has arisen from it, yet the consequences are only for a time, and must. be regarded but as the natural retrocession at a stream which has been sowing. With unnatural and overstrained . ra pidity, and has met with a strong and sudden check of tide. It is that which has happened al most. invariably cm the return of peace, after war of any length and extent. After the con clusion of the American war in 1783, the- same general canfusiati, the eatne , stagnation of the markets, the same failure of payments ; and even a still greater' number of bankruptcies were the conkccoenCe of the Sudden stop of tyeGovernment contracts, and of the demand for the supplies of war, lint what falloWed diversion' of theemploy ment of 'capital ihto new channels ; and an in crease of cOmmerce, of agriculture, and of gene ral wealth; which led us to the height of financial prosperity, and laid the foundation of these im mense resources which have enabled us.to pose'. cute, -to' its successful and triumphant termina tion, the must important war in which the coun try has ever been engaged, and have placed on the brows of Britain a wreathe of such unfailing glory as veils the laurels of Greece and Runic in deep and dark eclipse. A war, in the direction of much . you, my Lord, and your 'Colleagues, have - purshed aline of conduct so happily illustraiive of that doe combination of prudence and resolution' inculcated by Alachiavel. ita rerem administrationem prudentia tt heznatini. a tale tempera! see r,ineid essfidentiel ineautum, our cligimiess "4l4 non fererolino reiXeial." FALKLAND. Aaaivan-1 France, 2 Nia - 1;r - 1u - rd._ Due Gottenburgb. 2 flatnburgii, 1 Dublin. TRICE 01 Trits DAY AT r F STOCKS 'WELVE O'CLOCK. India Bonds, 6s. 7s. pr. Exchey. Bills, 4s. 6s. pr. Omnium, 15fia Ditto fur Payment, 16 1 5 Cons. fur February, 6ul 61 Bank Stock, .3 per Cent. Red.' 60if 3 per Galt. Con. Go!ii 4 per Cents. 75 y .sper Ct. Nary Ann. 89k RBi Haul:L. Ann. 13 3-ItStbs I COURSE OF EXCHANGE, TUESDAY, JAN. 23. ' Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight 37 0 . Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight ll G Rotterdam ll 10 2 Us. Antwerp ll 12Ex•ItIonei Hambnrgli • 34 6 2i Us. Altona Bremen .. 34 7 Paris, 1 Day's Date Ditto .~. . 2 VS. Buoideaux, ditto .... 94 40 Frankforton the Main Madrid Ciltiiis Barcelona , •.. . 34 • r Effactiee Bilboa 3si .. St. Sebastian's Comma oo •• • oo 34 Gibraltar Genoa . - 46-Venice Multi 4i:ll-Naples Palm mu o ' ll6 per Os. Lisbon 59 OportJ Itio.isitzeiru .. , ._ Dublin .. .... 10 i -C. uck. -. . . . 161 . 15•:r Cent. Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2 Pulltipi Gold, in Coin l.O 0 0 per Ots• Foreign Gold, in Burs 4 2 0 New DUI3II/ U0113 New Dollars .... o 5 3 Silver, in Bars, Standard .. • 0 0 0 lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, is minut►s after 2. 1 Evening, 3 minutes after e• Tll SUN. g9L741 QUIS DICILRE VALSOM /WHEAT? LONDON. IFEDNESD.I); J.d.VU.-IRY 24, 131 G. Only the Moniteur• of the 21st reached us this morning, and we believe that no other Paris Paper %vas published on that date, On account. of the commemoration of tl►e Martyrdom of, Louts:XVl. From this Journal we extract Lila details of theobserVanee of thc,solemnity in the'. Capital. The Will of the murdered King was Told in all the churches—a.:simple and touchitir ceremony :.7-• PARIS, JAN. 20.—The obsequies of .Louis XVI. and hii Queen, were celebrated to-dayin . the Church •of St. Denis. 'The. Dtike of Attgon, letne,, the Duke - at Berry, the Prince de Condi,* the Duchess of Orleans, and the Duchess of Bour. bon !misted. The Duchess of..Angouletne was . also present, ' , whose. grief on—this occasion Was apparent, to every observer. The Grand Deputation of the Chamber of Peers and of. the Chamber . of Deputies, of the Court of Cessation, of the Court Royal, o. the Municipal BOdy of Paris, of the Tribuoels of Oa fir,t Imtonce, and 'of Commerce, occupied the, Choir of the Church, in the midst of which was: placed the funeral decc;fation. " The old Servants of the King, appi•Oved, by. I their zeal and fidelity, came to pay thetrilnite Of their respect. 1111 that France could offer th,it wsi'S august, and xvotthyto repre s ent her, was t$ setubled at St. Denis. " IL was in the presence of thieAssembly that the:Westement of the' martyred King was, Rad , a Code for all Kings, and a - lesson for evert people.—... '['be same service was 'also perforated in all the churches of the Capital. All the Civil Miti tat-Y, and Itidicial Authorities met at N ot re name.. An immense concourse of the inhabitants filled the. churches, isncl, ev ery .- k% here a profo'untl. sileUct: , reigned wbile'the ceremony wits performed. Dur fl the the 'appearaitce of the Capital - 'was coiolkteut with the sentiments inspited by time so lemnities of the (waning. Tikkutieral ceinuannoraiiOn uf the Rini; was celebtpted to-dny is the Churches el the Re'. formed Region: , . . . , which were crowned with • such complete success during, the liiat'year. had the councils of those' %elm deprecated interterenew been followed, what • . must have been the consequence? the.brst m• ~ • , stalled; perhaps,";ali hollow, armed truce, under the rixiiie of peace with Buonaparte ; • • btu equally as extensive as a defe ns ive %vat'tor who. would have dared to disarm this country under such a predicament? and even this soon followed by un t.eiiiitted,untelenting hostilities 'against our military :and commeteial greatness. kur, with all his .faulti and all - his follies, we must give the Corsi :cat► credit for knowing where the chief strength of his adversaries was situated—in the °pule:tee ,atitt in the fortitude of 13rit.iiri. AO great as has been our expenditure, during the shalt but sloop • struggle which took place in the l as t campaign what is it, weihlrr.tl in all its consequences, to the cost and burthen, the inconvenience of a long protracted state of lingering defensive warfare ? The exertions of the British empire, -SO well itirected, and so. speedily put in execution, were above all praise ; nor is it possible, my' Lord,lor words to eXpreis . the satisfaction which 1, 'in com- Ilion with every real friend to•Eugland, feel on the ;wise, the firm, the mild yet'energetiemeasures of diplomacy, which your truly able colleague, the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has carried through, both at Vienna and at Paris ; his con duct is tar beyond the power of may feenie admire. firm to add a single ray of lustre to its radiance. — All Europe has,witnethed, and has rei.orded the brilliancy of his abilities ; and as the organ of the. British Cabinet; he shares the praise with those Ministers who'contributed to the originating of hie propositious. Unable to censure the principle on .. , Viticit the war was recommenced, or to tied fault with the mode of conducting it when resumed, the oracles of Opposition have rested their attack on the tai lure of your tinances;and the of the na tion to support the increased birthed it Oielt the, additions necessarily made to the annual.charge 4'4 - the' National Debt must impose on time peopie. But.iieie, us in every thing else, their"flatahave been equally void ,it truth, as their copeinsions have, hunt destitute of reason. A . &Leming Pa.;,. • per,* famous for the collection and pnblisoing Of tithe intelligence„, and. the wilful misrepresenta tion ot that which Was Otigin.tlly correct, has had the hardihood, very recently,• to inform , its readers (a grrat pot of whom are to be found in the little alehouses. about .toe metropolis,. tuul therefore not very competent judges of its vera city or its CO111.'CIIICSS): that according to the latest calCulatioh at the Bank, the amount of the Nationid DAt, funded and untanned, might to gether huestimatett at '1955 Milhous. Now the retil•lact•is, that the prob Able. it,i4rega te ui the tin.' redeetnetileunded Debt, and ot th a t whi e h.y e t re.. mains unfunded, whether in the tot in ot I.4;xelie (pm or ot outstanding and unsitistien de tuaitds., muy altogether estimated at between nine hundred aml one thousand miifions ; or, p'en. haps, at tite utmost, time nine hundred antstiny•hve millions, to which the Editor of the Morning Chru. nide has very voraciously and accurately added anti titer thousand ;. thereby rather more than thiubling the Whole of the Nationalllebt by a single stcukt of. his loyal and truly 'patriotic lien. The.(• bability is, that some pea sun, either better inform, tut or better disposed, bits iginally mentloned that the whole ot the Debt, atter the convemon of the nota't finding &mewls ,of every •kiud into Stock capital, Would autuant to nine hundred anti film y • five, or between that, and a thousand ma hout, which this willing herald .nnd eager pub, Ostler of every thing ditasterous or prejudicial to his country has . initnediately and wilfully misre seined, by converting the insjunetive or into the important copulative and. the' teal state of tbe,cuse is 'will appear from the following 'facts, founded. not Ott the hearsay the Chronicle, but on ollicialand-aitthentic.doeinnents. Uu the Ist Nov. 1814, the whole ibe:stock capitol invested in tbeditkrent funds on accouin ant the debt ot . Cheat Britain and Ireland,.and of the several leans to the Emperor .of Atistriai . to the Prince Regent of Portugal, and to the East India Company, amounted to 1029,000,0001. ; tint of which the-Commissioners for liipiidating the tional Debt had redeemed 291,000,0001. awl up wards, either by meant of Sinking rand,- by time sale of Land Tax, or by the granting of Life Annuities in exchange for Stock ; so that tic uu- redeemed Stuck capital 'on that day amounted to something less than, 7.38,000,0001, and. in the spring of 1815 a loan of 36,000,0001. sterling; (27,000,0001. for (Ireat Britain„ mid 9,000,0001. for Ireland), was contracted for at flat rate of 1301. in T hree per Ccios.' Reduced, 41/.. e per emits. 'Consols, anti 101.•• its Four per Cents.. making together 1841. of ()minion for, every sterling, and creating in.the whole 66,20,044 of additional stock debt. • Exchequer MI'S, and a small loan to make up the SUM of 18,135,589/..35. (hi sterling, were also funded in 5 per Ceuta. creat ing, 21,208,4021.;165;5tnek . capital ; sO that the whole addition to the stuck debt Witiii4t the last year has been 87,44840'21. 1 Gs; ; and the aniouist•, Of stock redeemed in the m sae period has been 22,522,1751185. 3d. leaving the actual stock debt within the - year at 64,9'26,226/.17S U 1 ;. and the total unredeemed stock on the lit Nov. 1515, at 802,773,53% 0s: ; and between that day and the Ist May, 1810, a further hiptulatioo to the amount of about' 11 millions may he ex . pected from- the•operations of..the Sinking FuOil; reducing time total unredeemed stock debt to about 791,0110,0001., And, on the other band,. to meet the expense of winding up the war Charges ) •and satisfying all : the outstanding demands Cu the Ckl-kSIDEIt OF DEPUTIES. " The Bureaux have finished the nomination Pf the Corntuision who are to examine the Projet of the Law relative to the Budget, The nine Bu reaux Lave efveh marred three Cortnnitsionerse--* They*? hitve named for their President, M. the Count Planelii de Lavalutte." The Yeti Papers of the preceding day, the 20tb;' are translated into our last page. Theyeoptalts some further assurances from the French Protest- ants, that they have not all beet' killed or obligedY to flee, no one knows whether but the Ultra...Pro testanti pf London ) , who keep it a profound:seer:o , r : They also 'afford us some curious information 're- - . sOttink the Trees of Literig,tshiell,'rnircAile'dictu.,- . have "continued unwitheresl in , the market placet , ;, of several Towns in France, notwithstanding Oa blasting tyranny of BUONAPARTF. The ISOUltl Ol,l i hOiVeVer,Milt not suffer them to grow any longer; aad they are s ordered to be turn up, root „aii( l bunch. So tuitch for these fanatical syinbeh„of ~ J ,