The Sun. — London, England, 1822-02-16 00:00:00

,114 Wed reading of the Bill, the Hon. and Learned Member -took a share in the discussion, and entered into the subject. If so, it was really difficult to understand why the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was bound to keep this great discovery tv,!ited up in his own bosom. The Hun. and Learned Gen tieruln, n s o doubt, found relief from bringing the secret on that oceasi:.in to light. The Hon. and Learned Gentldnan hod also derlared that a return to cash payments had b?en the cause of creatin4 the greater part of the distress and untkr which the country was suffering, with re , iereoceLmt h to trede manufactures, and the agricultural in te,tsts. He (Mr..Hulisson) could not agree in that opinion. Tie difficulties of the country had arisen irons different causes. Qu the restoration of peace, the restoration of commercial in 6:rcuarse, and the renewal of the property-tax, it was impos -.:hie to prevent the revulsion which took place. Ads erting to Bill of 181:3, he might say he was one of those who was - firmly persuaded that in passim a measure necessary for the rest ration of the standard currency, due regard should be i;:i;91 to the preservation of the value of the currency. More had tA4n done than was necessary. The Right I ion. Member was who thought, in the Committee, that they might return to c.:.sh- - i iayments with as small a reservation of bullion as possible. Ir thought, with the altered value of the currency by the opr. rwoli of war, during the last twenty years, they ought to make t::e revulsion be felt as light as possible. It was almost im vorsible this country could return to the old standard without Increasing the value of the currency : Still he was of opi :tin that the present value was greater than might hare been ex;7ectecl. When be saw the exchange far the last two years ;:. - .och in our favour, he could nut but think the currency of the country had been kept strait and narrow. The absorption of geld in the Bank rright also hare teen to too great an ex tent. Seery million of gold taken out of public circulation and put into the Bank, was, to a certain degree, the cause of &stress in the country. An arrangement which might re itore Bank payments to the rank gold held before the re striction, would be most desirable. The object was to make he Bank give weight and currency to the gold they have in tbieir possession. The Bank, perhaps, had accumulated trea sure beyond *bat they ought to retain, and measures should be adopted to give it circulation. If 4,000,0001. came out of the Bank, whether it remained in the country or not, it would give the markets a turn, and assist all the operations of commerce'. In all the marketsof England and Europe, the circulation of metallic treasure would afford relief, and there fore it ought to be circulated. He might ask whether the issue of ten millions by the Bank would not benefit the . . country more than six millions. In the opinion of the Right Hon. Member it would; but, at the same time, he was not asserting that to be the best mode of assisting the country.— From the state of exchange in the money market and other .;ireumstances, the Bank might find it impossible to get fire per cent, upon discounts; but if they had agreed to a rate tdf discount, and extended their discount in a safe channel, the country would have found the benefit. This was really the question which applied with so much weight on the interests of Agriculture. The withdrawing a large portion of metallic currency from the world, produced not only distress at home, but in foreign countries. The Rt. Hon. MeMber came next to the question of withdrawing taxation. Hon. and Learned Gentleman, with respect to taxatio., Vad indulged ;n extravagant theories. Some of the rioposittons of his Right Hon. Friend sxere described to he visionary, but the vie•NS of Hon. and Learned Gentlemen were romantic indeed. It was said taxation reduced the profits of capital, but the effect of taxation was the reverse, it increased the profits of capital; yet the Hon. and Learued Gentleman declared that his proposition came from an axiom as old as political eco nomy. He never heard of the axiom till it was stated by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. With respect to the revenue, the statements were erroneous. The Hoq. and Learned Gen tleman stated, that the expenditure in 1314 was 84,000,0001., and that of the rast year Go,nooMool. In 1814 it was not 84,000,0001., hut the sum levied on the public ws 94,00,0001. At the present period a deduction was to be made from the 10,000,0001, as a surplus applied to the debt. The Hon. and Learned Cent'email had to consider the heavy chatges war had brought on them. It was preposterous to compare the sum levied by taxes in Ito 6, to the sum levied in a period when the country was just recovering from an expensive war. With an income of 56,000,0001. they were able last year to meet the expenditure of Government, a circumstance which proved the greatest economy in the public adminis tration. An Honourable Member for Essex (Mr. Wes tern), had stated that the expenditure could not be brought within 50,000,0001., but he (Mr. Hushisson) could assure the House that it would this year be within that amount. The Hon. and Learned Member had expressed great triumph over a !tight Hon. Friend with respect to the consumption of malt. -- The Honourable and Learned Gentleman said titz.re had been tt decrease. notwithstanding the increase of populatiOn, of one-seventh. That staiewent could not be True. Taking the average consumption during the last nve sears, there appeared to be an excess this year of si,ouo,ooo of quarters. On the subject of the consumption anti taxation, the Honourable and Learned Gentleman had Misunderstood the argument of a Right Hon. Friend, who dn: not deny an increase in taxation of exciseable articles, te..t said, if they took a general view of taxation, they would find -it increased with the population. The articles, tea, ruff. r, spirits, and other commodities, had increased in pro pen-tinn to the population, from 13 to 100 per cent. The Ifon. and Learned Gentleman stated that ail the tea con sumed in this country did not increase the demand for any rii l ,nglisb commodity. The assertion was a burlesque upon ; . olitical economy. Could any one reasonably suppose thirty millions could go to China, and no benefit accrue to British industry? If the Hon. and Learnedpentleman was addressing a mob in Covent-garden, he could not say any thing more absurd. Upon the whole, the cause of distress was :41 the altered capital of the farmer and agriculturist; and ex perience would afford a lesson never to tamper with the cur rency. In cotton goods, and iron goods, which were cheaper :n this country than any part of the world, the farmer and agriculturist might expect some advantage. The Hun. and Learned Gentleman considered the want of capital the great cause of distress, and supposed he could see relief in the ab rogation of the Sinking Fund. In that view, be must differ, and as allusions bad been made to his opinion, be would sap his opinion was, that the only true Sinking-Fund was that which came from excess of revenue beyond the annual expenditure of the country. Upon the maintenance of web a Sinking Fund would depend the honour and prhce of the country, — Did the Honotirable and Learned fie'ntle man think England ought to be the only country without a inkilig font ? Ail the nations in Europe had a sinking fund. He was most desirous to promote economy so far as it was consistent, and make all necessary reduction, but wiwri faith was Wedged to the public creditor, and the national itunour was at stake, it would he well to consider whether Tuatmutt lioneslycould allow the sinking fund :o be abrogated. i - fu could not bear it said tkat the sinking fund should be dis iJensed with. All the interests of the nation roust depend on 'the sinking fund. Without it our national credit must he im ljenched, and no man could say whether the country could make exertion in war. It gave support to public credit,which afforded the farmer more relief than the repeal of two or three millions of taxation. The score of necessity bad been urged, hut if the pressure of difficulties were great, they could not give up their honour, solemnly pledged to the pub iic creditor. The preservation of public ci edit was of vital importance to the country. What other pledge could be given for the security of private property. The public creditor held his security from the public power. The title to estates, and the most solemn obligations depended upon the same securities, and if public faith was destroyed, every engage ment, public and private, would be destroyed. Notwith idnitiling all be had beard, he was convinced Agricultural Ilistresses were of a temporary nature. If capital was em ployed in other branches of industry, agriculture would find its level. Withdrawing taxation would neither relieve, nor increase the present difficulties. WLen Honourable and Learned Gentlemen dwelt so much on the suggestion id a Noble Friend to advance money to particular indi r;duals suffering under agricultural distress, the Honour able and Learued Gentleman misconceived what fell front the Noble Lord. His Noble Fiiesid did not wean that Parish Officers should be managers of public works. Al; he said was this,—there are works on which Government .was ready to advance money, provided security be given. Oentlemen might say parishes would ',ever repay, but in some inciances parishes had paid. Others had nut. Bat there could • be- no inconsistency in relieving polishes : assistance of that description most tend to the relief of the farmer. If, however, be was to be told that every effort was hopeless, and that Par liament must break in upon pablic engagements, whilst the country was full of capital, with buildings to an extent never before kr,rm at any periAl—if this was ruin, "In God's nanst. tell ow," said the Right Hon. Member, " what are the signs from which I ani to judge of the increase of wealth, strength, and I•OWCT. I: the country is so Sittliaed as (GI enjoy 1!Ir, blessings of peace and the advantages of increasing popu . I,ltion, it is woctiery to say its situation is hopeless. ff:aiter all oor struggles and trials, we iIEC in a motnentiof despondency o destroy putilie credit, we shall, in the emphatic words in the-Speech front the Throne, •1 cot off the resources which hare raised us to the situation we have attained." . 1 1 will sit down with imploring' those with whom Ihave acted so long in public life, Hutto he time instruments of their own destruc tion ; intreat thew, as they respect en illustrious Indi- vidual, whose nanie has been wentioned—f would invoke them upon the opinion of the great Rival of Mr. Pitt, not to lireati down the bulwark which has so long protected the eoutitry. no rot become authors of your own disgrace. If politic credit is to he destroyed, let it he by other hands."— (The speech of the Right Hots. Gentleman, at the conclusion, was loustly cheered.) I.IIiOUGH/si Lxplaincd, that be bed nut been able, Last night the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, pursuant to notice, laid open the views of his Majesty's Ministers respecting the present state of the country. Those who expected to be sur prised by the proposal of extraordinary and sweeping measures must have felt considerable disappointment. The hope of Government,under present circumstances, is rested on two grounds. First, on the general tendency to improvement in the State of the Country, that system being persevered in which has hitherto been pursued for the reduction of the public burdens, and, secondly, but in a less degree, on the effect of certain measures applicable to the peculiar difficulties of the time. In the first division of the subject, Lord LONDONDERRY entered into a computation of the Revenue and Expenditure for this year, from which he concluded, that the ba lance in favour of the country would considerably exceed the surplus of five millions, which was pointed out as necessary by the Committee of 1819; and he expressed a sanguine expectation, on the part of Government,that it would in no long space of time be practicable to redeem- the four and five per cents., unless the present system were disturbed by reducing the revenue.—The reme dies immediately'applicable to present difficulties are—first, a reduction of the Malt Tax to the amount of a shilling on the bushel; and secondly, an advance of Exchequer Bills to a value not ex ceeding four millions, the application of which, in loans, will, it is hoped, relieve the farmers from the necessity, so severely felt at present, of bringing their produce prematurely into the mar ket, and a part of which will go to alleviate the distress of parishes, being lent on the security of their rates. It is probable that this plan, independently of its true merits and demerits, will occasion disappointment to the complaining part of the community, because an impatient sufferer is more inclined to be dissatisfied with the physician who applies his remedies to the ge neral and gradual re-establishment of his system, than with the dashing empiric who exerts him self to produce a sudden and striking but tempo rary effect by the use of violent and local cures. Mr. BROUGHAM very plainly disclosed, in his re ply to Lord LONDONDERRY, that in urging a reduction of taxes it was at least as much the object of his party to cut close the patronage of the Crown, as to relieve any present embarrass ments of the country. Sir FRANCIS etittnETT has engaged, unless the task shall L undertaken by some other Member, to propose a clause in the next Mutiny Bill, intended to " rescue the Officers of the Army" from what he considers the " base de grading situation" in which they are placed by the existence of a power to cashier them with out trial. The Honourable Baronet is, doubt less, aware of the precedent given in the year 1734, when Lord MORPETH, after the reading of the Mutiny Act, moved for leave to bring in a Bill " for securing the Constitution, by preventing Officers, tot above the rank of Colonels ofßegiments,from being deprived of their Corn missions, other a ise than by judgment of a Court Martial, to be held for that purpose, or by Ad dress of either House of Parliament." This would fall short of the views at present entertained, as far as we can collect them from the debates, yet Lord MORPETII's motion is treated by SMOLLETT as " an attack upon the prerogative," which " might have succeeded in the latter part of the reign of the first CIIARLES, but at this juncture could not fail to miscarry." It was in fact re jected without a division, though supported by an Opposition far more formidable than our days are graced with, who exhausted in the cause every topic that learning and ingenuity could supply. A Bill to the same effect in the Upper House, introduced by the Duke of MARLBOROuoit, was thrown out after the first reading. We doubt much if any thing that has occurred in recent times is likely to smooth the way fora similar or more comprehensive motion when it shall be brought for ward by Sir F. BURDETT. It is curious to observe how the same topics and even the same phrases are advanced at periods remote from each other, by persons animated with the same spirit, though not possessing, nor perhaps intentionally pro moting, the same views. When we hear Gentle men asserting that an officer has as much right to his commission as if it were his freehold, or that he can no more be deprived of it without trial than a man can be deprived of his freehold with out a cause; that to exercise the prerogative, in this instance, is a despotic practice,and that the sooner such acts of tyranny are put an end to the better ; when the cashiered Officer declares that if Par liament do not inquire into his case, they will annihilate the spirit of the British army, and convert them into a Corps of Janissaries, at once the terror and disgrace of the country ; that he will never cease to demand redress till he has obtained it ; and till then he must ever stigma tize the Ministers as a set of lawless and vindic tive oppressors :`•- it is impossible not to feel surprised at the striking resemblance between this language and that of CROMWELL'S Mi litary Parliament, when the army, in 1647, began openly to set themselves above the Com mons. A deputation of soldiers appeared at the Bar of that House (at the time when measures were projected for breaking the military force, by disbanding part and sending part to Ireland), and declared on behalf of the army in general, " that they did not took upon themselves as a band of JANIZAR.IEs, hired and entertained only to fight their battles ; but that they had voluntarily taken up arms for the liberty and defence of the nation of which they were a part; and before they laid down those arms, they would see all those ends well provided for, that the people might not hereafter undergo those grievances which they had formerly suffered. They com plained that some members of the army had been sent for by the Parliament, and committed to prison, which was against their privilege, since all soldiers ought to be tried by a Council of War, and not by any other judicatory, and therefore they desired redress in these and many other parti culars of as ingrateful a nature," Sec.—(Claren- 1 don's History ofthe Rebellion, B. x.)--Our readers will observe, that, while these patriots openly menace the House of Commons, they profess the same tender regard for the grievances of the people which is so assiduously displayed by the Reformers of our days ; in a very short time, however, after this declaration, they had seized the person of the King, impeached Members of Parliament, and were, in fact, the supreme rulers of the Country. There are individuals so ignorant, or so regardless of historical truth, as to say that it was not the power assumed by the Army, but the unconstitutional stretch of authority by the Crown, which led to the murder of King CHARLES. Those who hold this opinion would perhaps have received with much complacency the address we have just quoted, and might have felt happy in being allowed to sit in the House of Commons, after it had been purged by Colonel PRIDE, as they would at least have been secure, in that situation, against any stretch of power by the Crown. For our own parts we abhor, as much as it is possible to do so, the very thought of a body of Janissaries being created in this country, and therefore we protest against any, the slightest, curtailment of his MAJESTY'S most salutary prerogative as head of the army ; for we conceive the name of Janissaries to denote a self-governed military establishment, uniting po litical turbulence with soldierly audacity, de spising all controul but such as they may enforce among themselves, and a scourge and terror to the country because they are independent of the Monarch. We received this morning the French Papers of Wednesday. A private letter from Vienna, of the 2d instant, mentions the arrival of the long expected courier from Constantinople, with in telligence to the 10th ult. Orders have been given by the GRAND SIGNIOR to the Turkish Generals in Walachia and Moldavian° evacuate those Principalities; but it is asserted that these orders have been issued in consequence of the impracticability of subsisting the Ottoman Army longer in those Provinces; besides which, by concentrating itself behind the Danube, it will be supported by the fortresses, and thus avoid the impetuous shock of the Russian army, if the lat ter should pass the Pruth. It is, however, scarcely possible for the Russian army to take the field before next month, on account of the bad state of the roads ; and these accounts say, it is generally supposed that the Emperor Antx- ANDER will place himself at the bead of his troops, as his presence not only animates the courage of the men, but also relieves the Corn manders in Chief from too great a responsibility. The peace between Turkey and Persia does not appear to be definitively concluded, for the eldest son of the Schah still continues his incursions on the side of Bagdad. Napoli di Romania has fallen into the hands of the Greeks, but the Turks still hold possession or the citadel of Athens. The Pacha of Egypt has conquered the kingdom of Keartasan, so Well known for Us gold and iron mines. The Sovereign of that country fell on the field of battle. ft is reported that the express which arrived at Paris on Monday, from Madrid, brought intelligence that the Cortes have rejected the projects of Jaw presented by the KINQ, on the Liberty of the Press, and respecting Patriotic Societies, and that all the Ministers, old and new, have resigned, except Senor CINFITEGOS DE JOVELLANOS, the Minister of War. Nothing official has been published on this subject, but such are the reports in circulation at Paris. It is added, that, at. the departure of the courier, Madrid was in a state of great agitation. In the French Chamber of Deputies on Tues day, the first article of the law relative to the Journals and periodical publications was carried, after a long and animated debate, and the re jection of several more amendments. FRENCH FUNDS. Feb. 12, Five per Cents. Bank Stock 1550 f. c. We have received since writing the above, by Express, the French Papers of the 14th instant. On Wednesday, the KING presided in a council of the Ni blisters, the sitting of which last ed an hour. In the Chamber of Deputies, an amendment to the first article of the law respecting the Press, proposing that the Government should not have the power of refusing permis sion to establish a journal, if the application for that purpose were supported by. fifty Deputies, was rejected after a vio lent debate. The second article was amended by the Com mittee, so as to require that the first sheet or number of any periodical writing or journal, shall, at the very instant it is printed, he delivered and deposited at the office of the King's Attorney General of the pt ace where it is printed. The Committee also amended the third article, rendering a periodical • publication or journal liable to be suspended for a period not ex , ceedingone month for the first time, three months for the second, and total suspension for the third, in case its SPIRIT, resulting FROM A SUCCESSION' OF ARTICLES, should be of tincture to injure the public peace, the respect due to the religion of the na tion or other religions authorized in France, to the authority of the KING, to the stability of constitutional institution s , a nd to the inviolability of the national property, and its tranquil posses sion.—A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle says, that accounts from Berlin state, that the great Landowners and-=Deputies from the towns of Brandenburg have been asscmbkd at Berlin, to receive proposals from the government for organization of PROVINCIAL STATES in the march of Brandenburg.— The last news from St. Petersburgh was of a warlike nature, while those from Vienna were pacific. By news from Constan tinople, it appears dist the Janissaries having persisted in their refusal to repair to the Army, the Porte had been obliged to continue them in Constantinople, and to march off a portion of the Asiatic troops, to reinforce Ciirtuascrti 'kr) PACIIA, who has called for support to enable him to make head against the Greeks, who are successful in Thessaly. The Otto man fleet, destined to co-operate in the expedition against the j Mona, is arming with great activity. German Papers were received yesterday, the contents of which have been anticipated by the French Journals ; and last night a Dutch mail arrived with papers to Tuesday. A Committee has been formed at Amsterdam of a similar nature to that in Russia, to collect subscriptions for the relief of unfortunate Greeks, who have been obliged to leave their own country. The Pro ject of law fixing the new duty upon wine has been published and contains 59 articles, which will soon be taken into consideration. An important article, dated Petersburg, Jan. 19, appears in the Dutch papers. It is stated that the Servians, rho have hitherto been the most faithful adherents of the Porte, and to whom, in consequence, many valuable privi leges were conceded, have lately evinced such a hostile spirit towards the Turks, that the Divan has withdrawn all those privileges, and sent a number of Turkish troops to the Servian frontiers. Charlestown Papers to the '2oth January -ar rived this morning, but their contents are unin- teresting. The Cork. Intelligencer contains another nume rous list of outrages, including the burning of a house by the insurgents. Letters from Cork state, in a general way, that there is no real im provement in the state of the country, and that reports have been circulated that the insurgents design to seize some Magistrates or other respec table persons, for the purpose of keeping them as hostages for the safety of such of their comrades as fall into the hands of justice. An Aggregate Roman Catholic Meeting was held on Wednesday, in Dublin, Sir T. ESMONDE, Bart. in the Chair; and a Resolution passed, that both Houses of Parliament should be petitioned on the subject of their claims. The petitions are to be entrusted to Lord DONOUGIIMORE and Mr. PLUNKETT, who are to have a discretionary power of bringing them forward at any part of the Ses sion which they may deem proper. NAVY.--The Navy Estimate for tie current year is 1,781,325/.---the number of men 21,000. - We this day received a letter from Florence, dated the 3d instant, but we have no room for its contents till Monday. We learn that THE SUN is constantly taken in 'at the Gentlemens' Reading-Room in that city, and in great request. It appears that our Daily Extracts from the LONDON JOURNALS are highly gratifying to the natives as well as to our countrymen. Indeed we have received similar assurances from many other parts of the Continent. On Thursday night at ten o'clock a Cabinet Council was held at the Marquis of LoNnotv- DERRY'S. The Ministers continued in delibera tion about an hour. The late High Sheriff, Sir Josh SHELLEY SIDNEY, Bart. has generously contributed twenty guineas to the re lief of the Poor Debtors confined in our County prison, the the benefit of which they are receiving at the present tinie.— (Kent Gazette.) - - - - FEMALE SPIRIT.—Last Thursday nl Tttt, as Mrs. flew, wife of f,rmer few, of fleavitree, near this city, was sitting up with her maid -servant, after the males of the family were in bed, they heard a noise without nmonz, the poultry, when the maid sallied forth with great resolivion to i;e'e what was the matter. Led by the noise, she ascended talks or cock-loft; and finding a man there, attempted to seize him. The fellow descended with all speed, the girl rol!owing him. By this time Mrs. Thew came armed to het s,:ivant's assistance; and a seuf9e ersued. Mfrs. R. receivtd several blows, and the mar. was wounded in the arni, but escaped. Theji knew him, however, to be one Ashford, of lioniton's Clist, and he was secured next day under a Justice's vh.mtnt, and committed for trial.—Another man, whoni the 'girl called Digby, stood at the door, on the watch,. with a turkey under his arm ; but, upon seeing the woman, ran off.—A warrant for his apprehension was issued Also.—(Exeter Flying Post.) ANCIENT BEAUTIES.----When I see some of these ancient ladies supplying the bloom of youth with rouge, and using all the arts of making themselves still appear as canC.itiates for attention from the spectators, they remind me of a circum stance which has often met my eye, and caused me to smile on the read, viz. tee motto on an old and very ruinous building, " The New Inn." The claim of old materials to our notice is in both Cases equally ridiculous and unjust. The broad pavernent,s in the public streets have of late been in an unprecedented filthy state. Several persons have been informed against for not having the pathway swept before their doors, which should be done before ten o'clock in the morning, otherwise the party who are gvilty of neglect are subject to be fued. , 0,,, , - > 3 / 4 2 ~ i,..f , t) ‘‘ Q - . -- S -- .:-:- _,, - 7•___. - " _ - ', 2,-,_-:-- CV‘ st ~,, , .45, -- it _ __----- ...„, h s.,, ~,,,, f l, t e , 1 ~,,„; i.,,, -_R_ GE N -- IAI 4I 1 '' .<,.,.4.4,..... N_ x,,,,,, thrones illness, to attend hS3.pissue,.upaur.4* ..linsaus,iun on the Right Hon. Gentleman's (Mr. l'erl's) repeal the Bank Restriction, consequently, whatever he 'night have thought of it, his silence could nut he argued as an approval of it. He had been down one night, when he canne merely into the House to hear the statement of the Right Honour able Gentleman. As to the eon-oil:try which it had been said he had unfairly drawn in contradiction to a principle as an cient as the science of political eceno7ny, he should only say he had argued that the en eater the namber of capitals en gaged in a particular trade, the et...seer the diminution of profits. This was the only inference he had drawn in re ference to this sobjeet. Mr. HUSKIS,SON spoke in explanation. Colonel DAVIP4 ruse, amidst cries of " Question!" and contended, that neither the House nor -the country would he satisfied with the miserable boon proffered by the Noble Mar. quis—the• abolition of the Malt Tas. He should, however, reserve himself for a future opportunity to remark upon the speech and st,l.-ment% of the Noble Lord. Su far from in juring public credit, as argued by the Noble Marquis, he (Col. D.) insisted that the application of the Sinking Fund to the exigencies of the State would only tend to establish that credit upon ,1 firmer basis. Mr. 111.7.A2 intreated the attention of the House to the few observations he intended making on the statements of the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Huskisson.) The Hollow able Gentleman here followed the statement of that Right Hon. Gentleman, which he characterised as unwar ranted by facts, and remarked, that the observations made by him upon his (Mr. H's) Hon. and Learned Friend's (Mr. Brougham (speech, were not in reply to the speech of his Hon. and Learned Friend, which the House had just beard, but to that made nearly a week since. The Hon. Gentleman next remarked upon the statements of the Noble Marquis, a fair specimen of which he said was supplied by the half-, ay list, which amounted to 650,0001. in 1817, and which that No ble Lore! said would decrease yearly, and yet it was now upwards of 900,000l.—(i-iear.)—Since that year, the expences had gone on increasing, and instead of leaving the promised surplus of four millions and a half, ;is promised in January, 1821, there were now only 950,0001. in hand. The Hots. Gentleman next contended that our alleged commercial improvement was deduced from erroneous calculations and returns. The Hon. Gent!arnan concluded by stating his conviction, that the country could neither he satisfied nor relieved by any re duction of the taxation short of from 7 to 10 millions. The question was then put, and the Resolutions were ce.r ried without a division.—The Papers moved for were pre sented, the othrr Orders of the Day disposed of, and the House adjourned at HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE 0: THIS DIY AT T 3 per Cent. Rect. 7Bk. 79 3 per Cent. Cons 7 Bll 4 per Cent 9 94 98ii 5 per Cent. Navy Ann. 1.041 ii I+lOH WATER AT LONDCY Morning, 37 minutes after 10. STOCKS ELVE O.CLOCK. Bank Long Ann.... 20 1 16t'n India Bonds 745. Exclieq. Bills 5 6 pr. Cons. for Aacount N BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 1 Evening, 2 minutes after 11. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, • SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 182'2. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Marquis of Chandos, from Stowe, Bucks : Mrs. Milner, in Parliament-street, from her seat in Yorkshire; the Hon. Robert Smith, M.P. from Wycomb Abbey, Bucks; Mrs. Row. ley, at her house in Chesterfield-street, from Suffolk. BATH ARRlvALs.—Lady Gardiner and family, Lady Martin, Honourable Mrs. Beftie ' Honourable F. and M rs . Lumley, Sir A. and Lady Ho o d, Sir P. and Lady Hales, Sir J. Gifford, Sir R. C. Hoare—Adm. Dawson, Adm. Otway, (len. Popham, Major-G en. Kerr, Lieut.-Gen. Browne, Capt. Aubrey, Captain Browne, Capt. Boyer, Capt. Dashwood, Capt. Da cre , Captain Huntley, Captain Hayward, Captain Lyford, Captain Pemberton, Captain Williams, Lieut. Eyre, Lieut. Summers— Rev. Dr. Davies, Rev. Dr. England, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Best, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler, Rev. Mr. and Mrs Poole ; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wiggett, Rev. Mr. Bell yard, Rev. Mr. Bloxarn, Rev. Mr. Cruttwell, Rev. Mr. Hume, Rev. Mr. Ireland, Rev. Mr. Mitchell, Rev. Mr. Rowse, Rev. Mr. Bayer. DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CUMBERLAND, BERLIN, JAN. 29.—We hear that his Ro al ilighnets the Duke of Cumberland will go next spring v.') England with his consort, and there is every reason to suppo! , ,a that the Royal pair, various differences having been arranged during the King's visit to Hanover, will now permanently settle inLoisdon, only visiting the Continent occasionally, and that an addition will be made by Parliament to the Duke's income.—(Nurem. berg Correspondent, Feb. 3.) Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave a grand Dinner at the - sion House to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, several other Bishops and Dignitaries of the Church, and some private friends of distinction. The Earl of Lonsdale went through the operation of couching yesterday morning. His Lordship was as wall afterwards as could be expected. Great hopes are entertained of the recovery of his sight. Lady Owydyr had a grand party ,on Thursday night. - - ISlAseatrEnant.—One of the most brilliant entertainments ci the above kind of which this metropolis has been the scene, took place at the Italian Opera House on Thursday night ; but want of room prevents us from entering into t'le patticulars this day. It was well attended, and the entertainments - were excellent. ROYAL NAVY. His Tilajsty's ship Bathurst, on a voyage of discovery, ar rived at the Mauritius on the 26th of September; and his Ma jesty's ship Cygnet, from St. Helena, on the 22d of October. Ibis Majesty's ships Hyperion and Glasgow have arrived a: the Cape of Good Hope from England : the former on the 30C-1 November, and the latter on the 7th December. The remains of Sir Thomas Lavic, K.C.8., late Cariain his Nlajesty's ship 2pencer, were interred at Stoke church by his own particular request, in the same grave' with his frier d and companion in arms, Captain Montgomery (of the Theseca, 74), who died in 1797, in the 26th year of his age.—(Plynioath Journal.) M ERCANTILE Sill Pl'l N(•', &c, PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the 13:1- ton, Champion, from Cephalonia. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Wind S.E.—Arrived off the port, the Dart, Cock, from St Michaels for London, out ten days. FaLHOUTH,FEB. I4.—Wind S.—Sailed the Henry, Quick, for Smyrna; and Fortitude, Butcher, for Barbadoes. The American brig Eunice, Rice, from Antwerp for Salem, which put in here 23d Dec. has been condemned, and will be broke up. The Dutch ship, De Vrykeid, Rcnses, from Amsterdam to Surinam, which put in here the 11th instant, has been fount. very defective in her upper works, and will be obliged to dis charge her cargo to repair. Ilaltwicir, FEB. 15.--Arrived the Lord Nelson packet, with a mail from Holland. A green painted boat, with a blue and white flag painted on each bow, and marked on the stern " Nlacclesfreld, Poole, John .Nloore," has been picked up o 1." Bewdsey and landed here. DEAL, FEB. lb.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Arab, Brigham, from Columbo, Madras and Isle of France ; William and Thomas, Lane, from St. Michael's ; Betsy, Blackman, from Trieste ; Eclipse, late Newton, from Malaga; and Moffatt, Oldham, from Calcutta : sailed the Ist of October, from Madras the 20th ditto, Cape of Good Hope. the 16th of December, and St. Helena the 2nd of January.; left at the latter place the Dick, Harrison, for London. Came down from the River and remains the Dublin packet, M'Nice, for Dublin. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, FEB. 15.—1 n a Convocation on Tuesday last, the Rght Hon. Robert Peel, D. C.L. of Christ Church, and one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, was unanimously re-elected one of the Representativ es i n Parliament for this University. In the same Convocation, the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor no minated the Rev. George Rowley, D.D. and Master of Uni versity College, to be one of his Pro-Vice-Chancellors, in the place of the late Rev. Dr. Hodson, and he was immediately in vested with the said office. The Rev. William Michell, M.A. has bee instituted, to the Vicarage of C-mpton-Dundon, on the presentation of tlie Dr. Michell, Prebendary of Wells Cathedral. LAW INTELLIG ENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. DENT, CENT. V. MASON. This was an action against the defendant as the author of an alleged libel, which was published in The Observer newspaper in Sept. 1820, purporting to be an account of a trial at the Ste. fordsnire Summer Assizes preceding, in which the plaintiff, an attorney at Stone, brought an action against the defendant, his articled clerk, for criminal conversation with his xnfe, the alledged libel imputing to the plaintiff that he himself had had a criminal intercourse with his sister-in-law. The all rd liable had been sent by the defendant for insertion in The Ob server Newspaper, and it was proved in evidence by the Editor and Publisher, that the publication of the paper on that day amounted to 20,000 copies. Mr. SCARLFTT conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. CAMPBELL the defendant's. The case went to the Jury under the Learned Judgfis direc tions, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff--Damages • Tut THEATRES.----W e have only room to state that the new Farce, Love in humble Life, proceeds very successfully at Drury Lane Theatre, and that at Covent Garden, the musical Romance of Montrose was performed for the second - time last night, and was well received. COAL-MARKET, FEB. I. Ships vt Market. sold Price. • ' 3.3 Newcastle - - 21,1 -34 s 43d to 419 iod 13 zi;tindaland - - 339 Od to 439 tid MARRIED. On the 14th instant, at Hadleigh, by the Rev. C. W. Cran ford, the Rev. Charles B. Tayler, to Mine, second daughter of A. D. Lewis Agassiz, Esq. of Finsbury-square. On the 12th instant, at CliertFq, is the county of Surrey, by the Rev. Win. Corbett Wilson, jun., A.M. of Trinity Col lege, Cambridge; Charles Corbett V, ilsori, second son of the Rev. William Corbett Wilson, of Hardwick Priors, in the county of Warwick, to Mary, the third daughter of the late Anthony Benin Esq., of Hensinghain, Cumberland. DIED. On the 14th instant, after a few lays' illness, Robin Run. then, Es q . of Vid's.place, Herts., in the 82d year of his cge. Yesterday, at her residence, Siniti:-street, Chelsea, in her 81st year, Betty, relict of Captain_ Loftus Nunn, late CornptrolLr of his Majesty's Royal Hospital at Chelsea. On the 30th ult. at Dawlish, in the 23d year of his age, of a decline, Henry Verney Jackson, Esq. of Jesus Coll tlie , Ox ford, only son of Henry Jackson, Esq. of Lower Skeuy, near Swansea. Printad and Published, for the PROPRIETORS, at the StrlN arms, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRSt