The Sun. — London, England, 1816-03-16 00:00:00

go LEA QtII DICIKE FAI.SUM AUI/ZAT-, • LONDON. SAfT UR Y, 1141 W!! Ic,1 c, 1816. We have this day the p!easure, which we only lament has been so long delayed, to present our Readers with the COUNTER• PETITIoN .of the Merchants, Bankers, and Traders of the City of, London, in favour of the Property TAX. - did we know that the honest t L entiments it • breathes were entertained by multitudes of the fir,t men in the • City, as well as thrtinghout the Empire, but it was scarcely to he expected Oa such a positive testimony iufavnnr of an ac; knowledgett heavy bortlien would b given., Thanks to the sound sense and patriotism-of onr Capital,.it'is given, and our only regret is, that from the,lateness of this, we will say , illustrious example, of devatednesa to the:grest.Caose of . Country, tt may probably not'be followed. by so litany declarations of the. same hint! as it other wise would hare been. PETITItiN. a T. the Right Honourable the Lords .511.441111 :111.1 'rem . • . , pont! or the United .Kingltoin of Great Britain a:4l lie ‘'' ': land, in f , arlianientassembled; and " the Iltninittlible the Commons of the United Kingdom ' of Great Britain and Ireland, in Pailiametit assemit.led. TIIE JUMBLE rEtrrioN nr . Ttjg MvitcHANTB 2 , D AN K tft,, fttiu THAI: KS 01' THE CITY Or LONDEIK, Slll:s . vent-7-1. 4 11 1 4 the first impulse of jour ,Petitioners is, that of gratitude to those Councils ahjcb, under DivineTio- Tiderice, have conducted the War to a termination to glori ous to the British /truts, and so honourable to the British Chafacter. , " That the War, though terminated, has left arrears which • remain to be provided for, and which cannot better be pro— ; Tided for than by a short donti nua nu of that system of • Taxation by which Vie War-was carried on. " Tbat a Modified Property Tax, upon a reduced scale, mt . penis to yottr Petitioners to be the most adviscable,Means of litillitlatittg those Arrears, because it presses leis severely than anyother Tax upon the Poorer Classes of Society. " That your Petitioners witness with regret the applic;ation of severe epithets to this' ax, which has been the principal Wane by which the Country has been enabled to preserve its uwn liltcrties, and to rescue the other Eurtopean Nations ''frinuihe greatest danger in which they were ever involved:, ". That a Measure ill deserves to be called tyrannical - which puts down tyranny ; or to be brooded as, unconstitutional, -,. which has received the solemn and xepeated sanction of _Par ': ..liatueut,and has been resorted to by every successive , Admi• ssistration since the Erst'iinPositien of the - Tax. • - " riat your Petitioners, in common with all his Majesty', sti44;veti, feel it a ditty by every practicable means, to allevi ate the borthens, by- a well foundctt system of economy, ' ,ltot ,they are also sensible that "taxation is the price which the Nation most pay.for its security," and that it would alit he b9t a fatal Emit., to refuse those Means of Petnliture• which, alone can enable us to maintain the proud ' Station which see, occupy in Europe. • A n d yogr Petitioners, as in ditty bound, shal ever pray," The following notice has been posted in varions parts, and the -City of LOridOn Tavern has been crowded all day with liberal and enlightened Ci . t tf.tu§, afkxing their names to the above _Wen- ITleaf :-• 4 ' The Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, in &your a a Motlifled Property Tax, and for a Litnited Period, ;ill Ile for Siguatores at the London Tavern, Bishomgate-street, ° till three o'cluelt on Monday Afternoen, the 13th March," Mre will not comment on this proceeding. Jr can bear no construction but one highly honour - able to the parties concerned'; for the motives of via with Incomes who :support a Tux upon Income cannot be mistaken. 'Next to a voluntary road butioff, it is the clearest evidence of their 'willing vess to hear their fall sha . reof the bitrthens of the Country,a.ad 11(3t,patrivtically,,toirturangue or pe tition it off the.nselves upon the lower orders of the people. A dissolution of Parliathent has been men tioned as 11 Cl lierit ' lll to which' Ministers durst not Rpvial . foi the public opinion Att tlliS gncstion ;r — i t is speci e s I)tehof not possible , to he tal.ewat til is time but whenever sl.ienertil Election 'Nies tt4tc place, we hope it will be remembered .that ,therir is a difference be,tween Cautlictrates.who have con- stinted to tagAliemselves taielieve tlie.people, arid :CandithkiEs' '‘‘.lit; have refused to tea themselves. for 'anything.: • A Dutch Mail - - arrived this morning with the following . intelliTence. The declaration of Prince 11Aartettnt9to ilittlay important. We rejoice to set there is likely to be no juore exchanies of territory'. Such transactions can only be excus ed on the plea of necessity, for they tend to unsettle the minds of men, and injure the gr , .i! tt►oral feeling of tits love of . country, o►► which Government • are must securely founded. " Sr. PETEMIII.IIIGIii Fin. 21.—They say th.it the Emperor will shortly' make a tour into the interior provfnees of the Empire. - Prince 1: Imlay ile Tony is gone, to Sloltilow, and the Austrian Adjutant-(seueral COunt Paar . is rived here.: The cold' is' itokv at` 25tiegt:e'rs of -BERLIN, MA8C;11 Dee!) courier, who Loss just' passed through - thii city, we lcaro tit a hi; Itoyal 11iglinetis the Prince of .Orange anti' his „young-Consort mw be expected in tl)ii city, 4t theentt of May or the hegioning ofjune, on - their way to . , " They wiite. from Munich .that his Nl. , .jesty the Emperor having; declined the . iirtoiloOil ok the' Cowl of 11.I'iiariatn remove the.negpciations .tween.Auitria and 13,traria. to St.: Petersburg!:, the Russian Ambassador at MuOich, 'COunt Zen, has received ocw in roc:GOO to et,ntinue these nrgociatiom at Munich, in common witb the Mi nisters otEngland lint) ' " BIitISSRLS, MAY 10.-I. , ftet6 trOM.CAlllbrq . say, that: they have there every reason to iieticve that the Duke 'of Wellington will 'shortly arrive there, and inspect the tieht wing of his_arniy,.and visit all the fortresses, which .are, put in the best state of defence, mid provided with fillOlCrOlii tiller}, ` and It at I lticie!ines is the depot of &c. alid.of . a very tine park of artillery of the reserve. The Freneh prefer tirti English 'and" troop's; but they do net iisoiMe their hatred of tht.Ger mans, and give AlMost daily marks of it. This has given.rise within a feti days to serious iluartel; the Departnteutstrif:, the' A.:l4ese and the Ar dennes, which ,a oempied by Pr tissian, troop. — The inhabitants comfilaiu otth e • con doecor the se troops, and the Prn.ssians say it .6 the rebellions - sPirit Of the inbibitants which accuses thou with rrot reason. However that may be, the strictest measures arc attopted'ori both sides*to punish such, as shall give occasion to gnat rels. " They write front Lille that the organizatiOn of the French troops of the line still proceeds very slowly, The several regiments in that divi sion have only their officers anti 6'611101 number of - Siihalteriti and Soldiers.. This Slownes i> at- trilnard to the extreme caution with ,which old soldiers are engaged. We shortly expect in this city a great many Orangers; partieuhrly -Russians and Engliih, of high rank. fIERLPI, MAticrt s.—llis Majesty -has' or 'dered, that. all the Officers of the Prussian army shall wear hit-kg - 1011g for three days, on account of ti,e lamented de'ath of General Count Bulow, of Dennewitz. " " To . tranquelize the inhabitants of the Royal . . " Rhenish provinces, the report formerly spread, • and lately renewed, that they will be ceded 'or " exchanged with another Power, is hereby,posi fr tiveiy contrailicte 12 His • Nkiesty will not se. partite from his t h provinces, the •brim- bitants of , 4l,ieh hart given so many pronfs of `" . their attacloaelit, hut will govern them with " the miltl awl pateenal sentiments which he tyn a flounced in his letters patent of the sth•ot April '" last year. a The orpnization which will take place in a " few clays will convitiee all the inhabitants that " repOtts like those above-mentioned van be eir - " culated °My through ignorance or bad designs. " The Chancellor of State, " PIIINCE lIARDENBURG.. Berlin, Mare', 5,1111t4." Tliese Papers contain long accounts of the cere monies at St. Petersburgh, on the marriage of the Prince of •Orattge, and also at the Haps on the WAILS. Aftht Vt'l , --1 11011110. 1)11 v.—ll:ranee, 2 auttenburzli, e ,rgh, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 public, 1 Wa , . - . . PRICE ,OF STOCKS . _ • T i lt s PAY AT xwt - :).,yE o'cLoctit. - .. . Minh Stott?, 'shut.' • llOl4 lounis.' par,- Is. pr.- -3 per - rent - li.cd: shut ' Exchelf. UM., 43. dis. par. ;$ per (fent. Vow,. qiik . Onlttittro. Ittil ; 4 per Cents. simt , .1/inn for rsyntent, April, 1911 4; N•rui. Nary Ann. 4011 ' . 1 Cutts. for Account; 6 2ii Aan,L-1......Ann. slid . , ... • . ' • % _ - .. . . COURSE OF EXCIIANGE, FRIDAY, Mnitcyr 15. ..-.' Amster:lant .. iiitt.i. at Sight ... ..Xliisttrdnio ' :Ditto, at Sight..... • •• s I I 13 - .11,,rt.4,1:titt ... , ....... , ,J . • .1117 2 11 %. A tit oil•ii. . .ll 17Ex.NIoney 1 bogilnitgli .Ati0,m,..... ; ..‘ .. .•• i ....... - _ —35 ti Us. 8 3licttv!il . , ii,iris, I Day% I)are ' . Ditto ' , - ' 2.5' 30 2 . 1.75. }Soon 414.4ux, ditto - • A '25 80 • }Valli: fort on the Main Madrid ' • Caiii2 11,,ceiona . . ....... .... 33 . ... . Iti'ma 314 .., . ~.. ::,igti.in'3 i 4. 1 .•. f ~,' tlihraftar Genoa 4 . 5 -- , --I'etilee 'lkl;ils.) - Patel .i.i., ' 1.i,b01l .. . .. Opo . rt , Thu .fallei, , .. 624 . . "i)ttblitt .. .... 14 —Cork..... 14 pet Cent. . - . Agiq of the Dank on liollanti...: ,2 Pit t turd (.'ld, w Coin', ' * Foreign Gold, in Bars -..,.... 4 2. 0 . New Depallloolis .. ... •.. • •• . . 3 17 0 . New Doltar• . (1 0 • . . il,rer, in flats, Standar4 0 0 0 ‘V.ITEtt AT LONDON UItIDGI TO-NIORROM. 1 ' 1 " , "i"; , i mitttlttil 'arta 4. 46 minute , after 4. THE SUN. same oceaskin. TIJCQUI4EN is expecte,i in town again on. TilCS (lfay IIeX.C.- Fier Alitlf.sTv pays great' attention to the arrangetneptli makiog for the eitabli,hment the Print:vas CIiAIALOfTRf WALSC, Several en tertainnwnts will be given at Buckingham House on occasion of the marriage. TIM SEN3E OF THE COUNTRY*. Every past brings us accounts frflrn ditYerent Irr . f'fes l'efativep the expression ig the. Sense' r z e Country - against the Income Tax ! . The term wants tiefinitiop. The Sen s e of the'Country is expressed by three organs. , • • , 1. By the Opposition in Parliament, manceuvr-- 1 ing to throw out Ministers and get into their places ; By a score or ,two of Newspapers devoted to-that Party, ,Or offended with Ministers, or courting popularity at tht slight expellee (to thefts) , of.principle, or Imin sheer ignorance, or, possi bly tin raminstaneCs) from Mistaken views 3. By a i fl is e r a blE mfuoi:ity of theatoisiest, most discontented, and factious spirits of every place, e.lto declare their opinions, while the opinions of (he mass of society arc reckoned to, stand for nothing. , Thus we•have strewn (see the Sox of Tuesday et . seq ) that the sensor of Liverpool, next to Lon don the most populous .place in. England, was ,F,pokew. by two .hundred independent Gentlemen : '*,at: the sense of ‘Varwickshire was spoken in a Pctition privatiily and unaot‘horizedly smuggled through a private,meeting of the friends of 800- NAPAKTE and libetty : that the sense . of Manches-' . ter was ,S'poken by sixteen hunched persons, of whom not one sixteenth paid :the Tax., while a eonnter requisition for not petitioning was sigued by above a hundred Geotlemen of the...greatest property and respectability': that the serteot Leeds was aptikeil by about twenty persons . paying the . and two or . three blotched of the mob: that -I .l 4e.scase , of. Chester was spoken , by.ltvo; huntireal -signatures of ~the same quality : Aliat the 'seise of dlasgoW,'Edinhargh , ,hire, Leiceiter, anka multi- j tube of Other places, watt sPoken the voices which _ are _usually raised to -rail. stl airist . nr embalm's' the Goicrnment, While nentsense `(cue sur pose is a „must call it) of these _places was ex— pressed -by,cottater petitions,. numerously signed b'' loyal- and patriotic ebizens. • , . We could spell this list, to the length of pages, and iheav in almost every cases that scarcely one of the Petitions which have been preented to Parlianient can fairly be stated to speal: the sense of ,the population or property -whence its title is derived: They might almost every one-bave been . . , rejected 1)y Parliament, as not being whac:they 'itorported :to be; With their definite articles • " titer at their bead and front. lint we shall' content ourselves with giving two new examples, a's:hich, we have received this day, of the manner in which the sense of the Country been obtained at Lcuth and Bath.- The sense rf Laiith, says , our Correspondedt, ,was spoken as follows . • At a Meeting held at:Louth- on' Saturday last, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the Renewal of the Propertyrar, there were present 52 GMalemea, 27 of whom pay nOlaxea at all ! ! !" Of the sense . of ,Bath another correspondent gives us ,this account • " Not one-tenth of the respectable part of the people of. Bath signed the Petititin against the Property Tax. No public ''tneeting was called. - Neither Sheriff, nor Mayor, nor person •connected ' with the body corporate, bail-any thing to do in the business, The Mover of this measure is the ,Shoputan of a BOokseller anti Vender of Quick Mettidines. aided by the Editors of a Party Newspaper, yrote to our two County Menthers,and posted their answers to him at the corners of the „streets. Thus fortified', the Petition was prepared - and exposed to; sigoatsres, of which it obtained . thos‘of persons;reatly to subscribe their names at all times against the GoVernment, and (without - a ball) ,of nut a for WhOcould‘not write their own names. .An immense majority of the persons who pay no Taxes signed the Paper, while an 'estimate may be formed of the propOrtiOn of those who do pay„tbst signed it, by the simple-fact,-that of the :Body eqrporate of thirty - only two pot their frames tollierPitition". The Wholeuttnther Was 2000, and this is called the Petition of the 35,000 inha bitants of Bath" ! ! We wish the opponents ofiNriniSters joy of time Hoax, OF Tlla couNTRy... The House- of Lords sat in debate until fire o'clock this morning, on the Marquis of LANS.. DOWNICS 111011011, disapproving of .our Expenditure, which ono division wus negatived by a majority of 70. The Message of the PRI is c¢ REGENT relative to the marriage of the Princess CIIARLOITE with 'Prince LEOPOLD, was last night taken into con sideration by the House of Commons, when a re solution pras unanimously passed for granting .60,0001. , per 4111111 RI fora suitable Establishment 'for. their 'Royal and Serene Highnesses, and that case of the dentis'e of the PatNcEss, the sum of Lt.),0001.' per annum be settled upon her LJslottid. BIRMINGHAM. Mt actt 13. W oLYSAHAMPTObi BA N . --Abaftd bell , of which. the fulowimis a copy, was at an earlytonr on Monday mottling issued by Messrs. Gtasosts and Co; B.inkers, of Wolverhampton Tas, treat attd incrosiug pretsure of the extensiie Iron Works wilt which we are connected, we eatt only avoid by sostecortiog nor paytuents ; we have therefore adopted thil miutul expedient as au act of dutytbat we Dwelt' the 1‘ t" , ve every keroon to believe that the ineouranoucs created by this step win be but tetupiratry. .c GIBBONS and Co. () M Bank, woirerhampton,.Mareti i t, 181(1) The severe and unexpected shock produced by the above bill, caused a temporary run upon the Bank of Messrs. Hottoits, MOLINtOX, and Co., but we are happy to annonnce that it tas sub si 4 ted. •and that the confidence of the town slid neighbourhood is fully atut completely ` . SHOCKING INI WIDER.. We are sorry to have to record .a murde r o ni f itt a ed m o o n st x a v t e ro tt e n i e o s i c t i s ay n . a . t e t t s . r e e n , in t; hid) was viii., house by she side of ShahhingdolBns:Al'‘i'voneto:l- 1: 1 ; widow woman, named Yorke, ,ti Oakley, Backs,, occupied by a respectable. ago' related to her, and an infant. It appears, (Irma the testimony of a Gentleman who has visited (11 ' evening, ,one Thomas Reason, ‘% ho place) that seven- o'clock ott the ,a the :orke, neighbourhood, and was known to Mrs, 1 .her; he staid till about 11;, entered the house, ,anti began e . ouvel"g' with young. vrono is t , s; i tte i j i i . e e t: plied she bad none, nor could he wanted money, ann. must liav v' e 'll :° 111 " 11! He then fastened the door and drew limp his pocket a large clasp knife, with which lie ettt her throat in such a' manner its ,neatly t the hea d.' bead from her body, and healer about theTlies with bar, that was. used to.fasten the `. 1 1 " ,„ ( r, v. . shutter, until she was 'quite &Ali. Tile •glti!' 71 was unable ,to get away, was next Ow oblc c * - 1 so era s iris inhuman ferucitY; and sifter inflicting rialent blows on * her head with the bar, he c",.. he have any there. her throat in_two places. Supposing them . 1 " `l"(l'•the assassin proceeded to rob the theh9"se and ineo Itivettisnitieu%setaipsosoringsirela,reh of money: , in a from the blows she had received, _was gone up stairs, with ditlicultylot out of toef arouse, and, though so weak from. the I°ls, of blood): made her way,t,, the nearest house, sow', three quarters of a suite (going through part t 3 30111eNalinattl fleetlrTegr.,le.c the wood and bye places, to avoid fictectioui/L1 fts soon as she entered the 'house she est.:la' s "! 1. .., 'ca.' assistance was. obtained from 0 . "„ : (1 0 . h. s t u ts r a t t ; cruel Reason !" told immediately I°l,. Ater dressing the , wounds of the. uulortutl'l; girl, her ' deposition (as far. as . c ould b e a°l with safety) in effect as stated above ; atid wlliv : dsrstand there are great hopes that „she %silk re-!. cover._ •Upon exantining the track the pog ) c ~.1 ad come from her own home to the forw,h"s i it appears she must have fallen 35 VCrol tilue b t, ll , *fainted 'front the loss of blood, ,Search was 01 '`' 1 ," wards made for the Jisas'sirti and %et 'are haP E P ,a I to . hear he has been apprehended, hating OF'lli t ' i ii , self in the chimney at his father's trou le n i i ..:,..r The, .-sinFe been committed to Avlesbull O'r'l l es t P r ic ie tl d cce a li t °ll o fil i t i bi r lee l l '4 lll% ,ti s s ice s re i t : r es in il f b o ce r tais l o ti ve ln i id ri i f l o ttt u as i g :fi tir. : lll74 g l a 4t i e:l* : sl i t n io: t irere e nlr n ag t nte to d stealfront r onl it, ia 0 i but no bill him, an d it • • - -that he*ltS was only on Saturday las t t ` -* I. •• •It issaid 1 .—"----------7. ss Cil l " . tle marriage of the !since , . 1 / 4 , solemnized it tO .I I At a_ late hour on ThOrstlay nigot' -nl its6 4. ' L c z a a ri w ro i t n h .b l o ' i r l i s s e l c . e ' LEO I_OLO m. i ,ste ' ii . received dispatcbes from- the , Duke of VTO L ', TON. ;Asti Colonel FULTON left town oti ThursdaY' o 7 , with dispatches for America. ./.., g 1 fie E ar ldom of MASSAREENIK, we in stating on Tuesday, has become ex.l'ietLetc:l3?:;ell4:: scended to his daughter, death of the late Earl, but the Viscounty !Pio of AiASSAKEENE. e of Yesterday the banking and agency boss! or Messrs. AUSTIN, MAUNDE, And Co. .1 sleeved lenri street, Covent-garden, we regret to state, • Theatre'. on Friday in the pgyment. , Mr.:JOHN KEMELE appeared it) the G ;Lott - 1.1 4 10 1/ Saturday in that of Macbeth, both l'ig uts turning to Luis resittenee, crowded houses. , . w as re . As a Lieutenant-of the Royal 1410 s „, fisil the present Viscooo. evening last, about-nine o'clock, over Shociti4 at Character tl, o o, w a i efilitio,z ::: Hill, he was stopped by two footpads, :‘` .ll° ',a,o l dreatilal imiirecatiOns, aelitatuled los ntoneY. ;tet t a Newfoundland dog that he had ; citi ,„ l ,l l e lit" se l, one of the rascals bit' the leg all" n i l" — i s liin sis' out lustily for me ; the other immeiliate.Y t the off; unfortunately no persmi being nti r 3 time, and the Lieutenant havisig but on e .(uill 'ainit obliged to suffer the fellow to escap e / muck el; his inanition. , -„,erl The town of Hothead) and adiacesit.Ptac;:-.000 visited on Monday week witbsoeh g st9ra ) c '' ,A M tier, lightning, and hail, as wits never witnes"l..co"tiiii, the oldest men in the parish, - at so car a et ! ... * .i.. the season : it cattle in a Mr. Coley, of -Whiplodu, .bad t he side of " Il id stripped in an instant ; another neigith°°;*„.3oll some Sheep troughs carried fulltwo' b o nfire? _t o A „friar the place whet e they stood, Doti br ,vers to pieces ; Mr. Bills,of the sanie place, 'sad ' 0 ~,fneCt • - apple-trees blown up by.the roots,, and ..--i - f every momeut leis house must fall.-- 4 .,„.,, We l 'South-west direetto;io •; On Friday morning early, as the ric '.... , - ,;: r.,( , , , , , ,,t g „ ), was passing along the road{. near Lng') the coachman SAW, Petti(or's Leicest er ` l :' ' li , and horses standing still, : ler the n ` found the waggoner lyiug,'dead - ton _.----** l fore-wheel and , on alighting .A 11,14:111. • 0 00 eiterda y. tn , at hit hot:win Soerset-etreet,P,;ttnintrsi Lady tho lion. Thomas Ore Powlett, of the La a s on Om DIED. 404 in the Exe Islan d, Exeter, Mrs. Mary Moun t "' • Wol a at the very advanced age of iO4 years. r . ear' ' Thursd.iy, ou Nlarli's Hill, 'i n hii 10 5 th 11,*bario lAte kioliovrar, unit fortuctly -of Warta:6od., thirii v. L ouly'a month since'. Prinstd for .1, 13. CAItsTA-uts, No. ~ i llt ot o a t- t 1,01:r.!-; and published by W. A. 1-CtilYrSt 4°Ads:iartlo t "suN.Orricei L it, ttart(l wilt" 0441 SUCUti, Ortitrecrs tt ‘ ous t be ad4re pia (pot. d „ •