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. I: v,cut bid: ;uai, , Nttiltillf#l / 'T ' 7' ,-R. r 0 r;" ' I WYS , - ---,, le . "%b, • ... . ~.... . - ~ .-.- . ' '",.X --,' " . ,•i.'.. ....:;., ' • .....i. ‘ --- i - t. ' '-- ... ' %.....' .. , ... 2 ... .• . - , ..r.... - - •'")::: !, ' ''* . . • 0w... • ••••...rm00m.....••••••••••........./....1. W............11•Mr. Ali ~. r, ; ~. 4 5f 42 r 7" • 7) !ign: IS'irmßEß. 91 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1822. PRICE SEVZNPENth, FOR THE SUN CONTRACTS FOR BRITISH IRON , Navy-Qifice, Jan. 17, 1822. T HE; PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COM NISSIONERS of HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY do I ' er e4 give Notice, that on WEDNESDAY, the 13th Fe 6"ary nest, at One o'Cloch, they will be ready to treat with `' er suck Pe as may he willing to Contract for supplying _ Ma • "Dock les,y several Yards with LONDoN, 11, C. 14, 16 - 21. To the AGRICULTURAL, COLONIAL, EAST INDIA, SHIPPING, and MONIED IN rEREsTs of the UNITED KINGDOM. from his government and his people, they did not less feel the shock of that final stroke which separated them for ever from a king whom they loved as a father. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. IRISH •DISTRES4. Lieutenant Coucit presents his best respects to ,he Editor of Tut: Su x, with the subjoined As ronomical information : Eptiott-=I am much more grieved i#t the apathy with which the PUbliii (to my very greit surpriSe) has re c eived the proposition for a. tuti scriptioh to reli6'e the 'Wants of the Irisii7a . sautry, than at the unjust suspicions, and rather . intemperate asperSiOnSi cast upon me by yaw:fibre and ihtelligetit; but prejtidiCed and Violent,"Cbr respondent Sir IlAuctuiwr LW; AMEETING of MEMBERS of these seve ral BRITISH INTERESTS is intended to hr held at the CITY of LONDON TAVERN, on the assemhling 01 Par liament, for the purpose nit IN the CAUSE of the present NAIIONAL DISTRESS, and of discussine and devising a Remedy; and particularly for the purpose of ascertaining whether our national ignorance of the mighty resources of the British Empire is not the principal cause of our national difficulties, and whether those mighty resources cannot be beneficially brought into action by a wise and com prehensive system of Commerce, founded on principles of reci procity of benefits, and combined with a system of finance, founded on self creating and self-supporting principles, so as to give profitable employment to the whore of our capital, shipping, and people, and the to render a numerous and an increasing population, with a proportionate taxation, blessings—instead, of what they now are, a curse. With the knowledge of sneli a system of commerce : and finance, the inevitable tendency of which would he to remove the present distresses, and to carry the power anti prosperity . of the British Empire to th pitch, e.highest the Meeting will lie made acquainted; and, as all British Interests have one object only to promote, it is intended that the Meeting should consider the expediency of petitioning Parliament to appoint a Committee to ascertain the value of each and every British Interest to the State, with a view to the imposition, on rival foreign products, of protecting duties, which snail equalize, in the British markets, the burthens and privileges of Fo reign and British Producers, Ship-Owners, &c. Under such an equitable system, commerce might he allowed the freedom of air; and the inrerests of every class of Britons, being se cured Irani undue preference and unequal competition, would he permanently secured and rapidly advanced. The Manufacturing Interest at present possess undue pro hibiting protection ; their machinery is untaxed, or is at least very unequally and inadequately taxed as compared with ma nual labour ;—a large portion of their labour and poor are paid by the Lauded Interest, through the peore-rate, for which the Manufacturing Interest repay no equivalent. In addition tin these considerations, it may be added, that their manufacturing from foreig n in lieu of Colonial and British India cotton, is a loss to t he Empire, amounting in the whole to about twenty millions sterling per annual. The Manufac turers, therefore, cannot he considered as an entire British Interest, a great part of their capital being employed on foreign product ; nor can they he considered as having senti- IlleUtS altoget:«er congenial with the real interests of the pire. In inviting them to. attend the proposed Meeting, therefore, they will be considered as present in their real character. General Merchants, as well as those trading exclusively to foreign countries, although both amiable and wealthy as men and gentlemen, are, still in their mere mercantile dui racter, only factors for others ; and, in their dealings, are necessarily regardless of country, or of the cost of production or products, provided tire customer at the end pays I hem their factorage, or a profit WV the adventure. They are also, how ever, invited to attend the proposed Meeting ; and it is put to the candour of many Merchants themselves, ee hatter, as - our unwise laws have invited, and do invite, them to invest their capital in foreign loans, forests, and ships, or in fereign con!, hemp, flax, cotton, tobacco, and rice fields, or in the speculation and factorage of them, thereby alienating British capital, and as they are cow or about employing foreign in lien of British people anti ships, to the great prejudice of the latter and of the Empire,—whether their attendance can be considered as that of a real and entire British Interest. This question I leave them to determine. - It is also wished to be understood, that an Interest supported by a slave popula tion falls very short in its value to the State, when compared with one that gives employment to a free population : but I entreat them to consider, that the measures for which application is intended to be made to Parliament are founded on the That the profitable employment of our own, and not foreign people nor slaves, constitues the wealth and prosperity of the British Empire. That the agriculture of our Empire, when duly protected, is the root of and propelling power to all our -other branches of industry; and that ultimately all o u r other interestseelvance or r. trograde with it in an equal ratio. That our exports are the mere payment of our imported articles of consumption ; and that our general consumption can - only be increased by the profitable employment of the great mass of our people. That in consequence of our Empire requiring alio.. two hundred millions of additional people, to bring its resources " No English sovereign ever better deserved,or more fully enjoyed, the attachment and venera tion of his subjects. It would be useless to enter upon any detail of his many virtues ; they have become too familiar to the people, to whose hap piness they so essentially contributed, to render any such record other than superfluous. His con sistency, his sincerity, his perfect simplicity, his gentleness to those about him ; his firmness of principle and purpose, approaching , as it might sometimes seem to pertinacity ; his conscientious regard for the rights of his subjects ; his sedu lous cultivation in the highest station of the humblest domestic virtues ; • the exemplary regu larity of his habits ; the spotless purity of his • life; above all, his deep, fervent, unaffected piety, which, without harshness or fanaticism, pervaded and directed every act of his life ; the praise of these the most inveterate partisans of faction have hardly ventured to deny him ; and they compose a character which, found in any rank, we might pronounce rare and beautiful, but which, when we meet with it on the throne, preserving its purity and proportions, amid all the temptations incident to that arduous eleva tion, we do not hesitate to affirm becomes great, and we might even say original. ".There is no station so humble, no circle so restricted, in which the virtues of the good man will not prove eminently useful ; in proportion, however, as the post we occupy is conspicuous and influential, the sphere of their operations is of course enlarged. The personal character of the Monarch can never, therefore, be a matter of indifference; the example afforded by the late King would at any period have been extensively beneficial ; but its coincidence with the crisi during which he reigned, may be said to have been absolutely providential. In too many in stances the fascination of the throne has been sufficient to throw a veil of factitious splendour over the vices of those who occupied it. It might almost seem that formerly Princes were considered as exempted, in some measure, from the obligation of those duties of decency and morality by which the vulgar were bound. But it was the fate of GEORGE the Third to reign at a time when men's minds were carried to a con trary extreme ; when station and rank were viewed with a jealous scrutiny by the multitude, and were so far from affording a protection to the frailties of their possessors, that men sought ra ther in those failings a pretext for the demoli tion of the invidious distinctions themselves. Under these circumstances of popular distemper, it is not too much to say that ttee Monarchy de manded all the aid derivable from the personal respectability of the Prince to bear up against the hostility of the political fanaticism of the age ; and the genius of a PHILIP or OCTAVIUS might have proved less efficacious for the salva tion of the Constitution, than the simple light, of that perfect exemplar of private virtue, with Transits of the Planet Mercury ovet the Sun's Disc having been generally announced by Astrdnomers for the years 1815 and 1822, • Lieutenant Joinc:COuc 11, of the*Aoyal Navy, is deSirous to inform the Public that no Transit could happen in the year 1815, Mercury being too far advanced beyond his Ascending Node, when passing the Sun's centre : and that thert will not happen a Transit in thiS year, because that Planet will not be advanced sufficiently . near its Ascending Node when pas Sing the Sun. But a Transit will happen in the year 1832, May 4th. Total, ingress 4d. 221 i. 35m. total egress sd. 2h. Gm. 305., con sequently, visible in England, commencing in the forenoon of the sth of May, Civil Time,—North Descending. And there will happen another in the year 1835, November 7th, not visible in England, because it commences two hours and fifty minutes after sunset,—South Ascending. Lieutenant Co vc If is the more desirous that the above should be communicated to the Public, becauSe Astronomers were put to a deal of expense anti trouble in the year 1815, in going to. the East Indies purposely to witness the phenomenon, and were very much disappointed. Chesterrnan Place, Jan. 21,1822. RFZITISH IRON, consisting of BOLTSTAVES, SQUARES, FLATS, SHORT BROADS, and PLATES. 4 ForM of the Tender may be Jern at this Office. No 7 "ckr Will b received after One o'Clock, on the day of ,: ° . ;'"'y,",tor any noticed, unless the party, or au Age-lair». '.l4i,attentis. I assure you, Mr. Editor, that I ain.neither (4- • A. true born Paddy" nor ‘‘' a Jesuit," but in truth What I hate represented myself, " A TRUE BORN ENOLisIIMAN AND A FREEMAN OF CORK ; 1 2. v aut1 that, though under this respectable signature, have thought fit to Conceal my own humble. iden tity', I have no motive, and, as far as . religion and politics are concerned, can have no motive but such as Sir IlAuCoula Lass .hilnself would gladly avow, for joining my friends in that ap peal to the PUblic; which you, Sir, so proMptly and benevolently seconded. IlAacoußT LEES challenges me to refute his opinion, that " of the many thousands who have at various times and plates appearOd in 'arms, and who necessarily must have been the most demoralized, and most necessitous of those starving peasants, not a man of them even asked for, much less carried off, - either money, .plate, moveables, liquors, or provisions of any kind."' Sir thincobwr is always in too much haste when he sits down to write, or he would shew a little more reflection and candour. There .are, I dare say, two classes, or rather parties, among the Irish peasantry ; the one, if Sir HARGOLIRT likes, an armed, murderous, and rebellious band, whose object is not plunder, but.revolution ,; the other, a peaceable, suffering, and imploring mul titude, for whom, and for their wives and children, I .ventured to solicit relief from a benevolent Public. It is iu behalf of the latter, Sir, that I addressed you, without reference either.to thr objects or the crimes of the former. To: Sir .11 A RCO V AT's question, therefore, I am not obliged to reply ; though I could shew that in number , less cases of outrage the object of the tnarauders was nut the acquisition of arms. The murder of Major Cows, and the robbery by which that foul deed was accompanied, furnish an instance. - The statements in the Irish Papers,--the me lancholy forebodings in private letters from Ire land,—the testimony of persons who have re cently visited that distracted country,—the fact, that the Chamber of Commerce of Limerick. ha% k: thought it necessary to order a quantity of pota. toes from, Scot-land, to alleviate, in some degree, the existing scarcity, and in some degree to avert the -approachingfamine,are the grounds on which my friends and 1 thought that the aid of the be nevolent was required, and on which w.e pre sumed to attempt giving an impetus to.the public feeling. We can only regret that our...well...in tended effort has hitherto. been unavailing. .1 Th e construction which has been put upon our .con duct, we can forgive. I am, Sir, . . Your obliged servant, . AN ENGLISIIIIAN AND A FREEMAN OF CORK. , 1 1 ' 6= '!/ Tender must be accompanied by a Letter ad ed to the Naro . Board, and sinned by two responsible .L 'e4. " l 4, engaging to become bound with the Person tender -7) in the Sum of 30031, for the, due performance of the ntratet. U NITED FRATERNITY OF ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. HE ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL ,in ho- A / A nour of the BIRTIIJIAY of the i , e 4 ,,STER of ENGLAND, his Royal Highness the DUKE oUSSEX, will be celebrated at FREE mASONS' HALL, London, on :MONDAY, the 28th January inst. 11 ,, i ckets, Fifteen Shillings each, to be had of the Stewards, 1(4 at Freemasons' Ii A 7, until Friday, the 25th January 4 , after which date none will on any account be issued. By Order of the Board of Stewards, H. LEWIS, Secretary. DEVON AGRICULTURAL MEETING. E ANNIVERSARY of ITIS MAJES rir ll Trs ACCESSION to the THRONE will be celebrated Y a PUBLIC DINNER, at the CITY of LO NDON TA ,,ERN, on TUESDAY, .lan. 29, 18 32. . Sir WILLIAM CURTIS , Bart. and Alderman, M.P. in the Chair. STEWARDS: Sir. W. Curtis, Bart. and Ald. George Bridges, Aid. M. P. • M. P. W. 'flitimpson, Ald. M.P. s ''' C. Flower, Bart. and Ald. M. P. Lucas, Alderman S' tr Walter Stir ling, Bart. Thomas Wilson, Esq M. P. ,N 4 William Blizard Samuel Scott, Esq M. P. • X I" Francis Dessanges George Jenner, Esq uhu P. Atkins, sl• Esq m Thoas Jackson, Lsq 41 uvs C. C. Bell, Esq David Knox, Esq .I( , ) l hnßlackburn, Esq 1 Willian' King, F.sq C,i,aries Barclay, Esq I Peter Kendal l, Esq • `h ulnas Bainbridge, Esq • • 1 Germain Lavie, Esq F elix Booth, Esq 1 William Mellish, Esq t, -reliz Cl a y E sq Andrew M'Kenzie, Ecri llt . 0 , o ) I.l,,arrington, Esq Christophe r M a g r a y , Es q llliatu Curtis, Esq John l';;xoti, Esq \William Clay, Esq John H. Pelly, Esq LI , Croft l' 'r. - 9 William Pratt, Esq ,• A. Curtis, Esq Joseph Pu lle y , Es q q ,, , 41 , Coope, Esq W. M. Raikes. Esq Jo hn Corbett, Esq V. F . Riv a z , Es q r t • H. Clarke, jun. Esq C. R ichardson, j unior, Es q o„,.: Hugh Davies, E sq Thomas Snodgrass, Esq : 1 % Dimsdale, Esq It. Twining, Esq i "gb Edwards, Esq .1 . W. Unwins, Esq ( , (4) , 1,1 Henry Freese, jun. Esq Thomas Wilkinson, Esq (n o s • . . %,,„. !tel Gattskell Thomas 'Wilson, Esq n 'lliaro Greases. Esq John Whyte, Esq Fr ederick Harris, Esq T. W. Hetherington, Esq jrtileriek Hodgson, Esq Oliver Hatch, Esq i Haines Esti William Holden, Esq 'nu MiA, Esq Dinner on the Table a Tickets, Two Guineas each .t 6 o'clock precisely. to be bad of the Stewards. This Day was published, In One Volume, I emu. (price is. 6d. sewed) , GRAMMAIRE tie la ITA LIENNE, suirie d'un LOURS de THEMES. which our late King illumined, and, as it were, consecrated, the crown he wore. " Respecting this portion of his character, there will be, we believe, little difference of - opinion. In estimating the features of his mind we have Par G. ROIADOVI. Sold by R. Hunter, S . Paid's Church-yard ; and at the Au -I"'s, No. 38, Great Puiteney•street, Gulden-square. Where may lie LORENZO, an Italian Novel (price 3s. 6d. sewed) ; a Poetical Translation of Milton's Conies, Lycidas, Allegro and F enseroso, and of the Lament of Tassu, by Lord Byron, with art answer by Leonora. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,' )3 Y:1.11r. SOTHEBY, at his House, N 0.3, ‘VELLINGTON STREET, WATERLOO-BRIDGE. 'STRAND., nti MON DAY. January 24, and following Day, at Twelve o'Clock, AVery SELECT COLLECTIO N of BRI TISH PORTRAITS, by Delariten, Cecill, Lombart, t i stracke, Faithorne Glover, S. Pass, Marshal, aughan j Loggan, Blooteling, &c. &c. including the very i 4 rveontents of that celebrated Work, published by comp .l3n Holland, 1614, and entitled the BAZILIwLOGIA ; con- Tling.of the Effigies of our English Kings, and the Notii 1Y and Gentty, &c. of the iEra of James i•, many of them t ,.!markable fine Impressions. A very interesting and Unique kadlecti on of Equestrian Portraits of English Kings and ( P le ‘ns printed and sould R. Walton. a M.. „ern Prints by %Voollett, Heath, Scott, Burnet, Sharp, &e, ele gantly framed and glazed. r 'tu be viewed on niday and Saturday and Catalogues tPriee Is.) had at the place of Sale. 11110 CESS to PREVENT MILDEW in every KIND of C ANVAS, made either of HEMP, FLAX, or COTTON. ESSRS. BROWELL and CO. 23, Alder maubury, having had their Invention honoured by a iProUgh examination of the Society of Ship Owners of Great jitaiti, and Mr. COCK, its ecretar, having on the Itth "ctober l ast actin ti nt ed the m, '' That the Committee (front the evidence laid before the m) are perfectly satisfied that the Invention possesses the valuable quality ascribed to it, andconsequently that it is of great importance , to Ship witers in general ;" beg leave to acquaint the Shipping Ilierest, that Sail-Cloth of various hinds, which have under "tic their Process, may be had of Messrs. Chalmers and IdolAane, Tower-street. Each Bolt is marked by a ;" stalup with a Crown sort ounding the litter B.—The luw . 11t. ice of SS. per Boltlor I : 3d. per yard) occasions an expellee n ot exceeding in any case 5 per cent., fur every Ship of what upon the whole cost of the Sails. • THUDSON'S TOOTH POWDER AND TINCTURE. HE above Discoveries, if attended to, vill • effectually supercede the necessity of a Dentist ; they r e sure remedies for all Disorders of the mouth ; they nut tass e l y cleans e and beautify the 'l'eeth, but preserve them I : O m decay to th e l a t es t p e riod of life ; they are an antidote the Gum-boils, swelled face, and the tooth-ach ; they remove scurvy from the gums, leaving theta firm and of a healthy • Pt r e ness; they infallibly arrest the progress of Caries in the eeth s refresh the tuouth and sweeten the Breath ; they both Posses s the same virtues, and may be used alone, or together, but the Tincture acts more speedily in fastening loose Teeth, ,nloving the Scurvy, ; and it is an infallihle remedy for t in- g oth-ach,.at:d prevents a relapse ; they are so perfectly 10cent that a Child may take the contents of a Box of the p owder ; and tke Tincture is an excellent Stomachic; price 2 s• 9d. each. Also, HUDSON'S TOOTH BRUSHES in sets of three, made on Sciantific principles, price 3s. and in Ivory, ;S. 6d. , The f o ll ow i ng A gents are appo i nted r. Atkinson l•s_vholesal e Agent) 44, Gerrar,l•strect, Soho-square ; Sanger, . 1 2 0 0 11 ; Chandler, 76, Oxford-street ; attie, 57 ; lUgge, 35, d -street ; Howell" and James, 9 , Regent-street ; Taite, tornbill ; Prout, 929, Strand ; Barclay's, Fleet,rnarliet ; and most Medicine Venders and Perfumers. As mistakes have arisen to the Public respecting' the Tbu i• s t. articles, th e P u bli c are respectfu ll y i n f orme d, t h at M. Chemist, Ilaymarliet, has no concern with them; 2" :Ott' genuine without the name and Address is !united .41 the label. into action, eeery man, when duly employed, is a positive gain to the State; bet, _when, deprived of profitable employment, is a loss to it, on the other hand, of about fifty pounds per minute ; and consequently that 'the consumption of every toreignnrticle, (even thouglisuch articles were bestowed upon us as a donation) provided we can produce the like of the foreign' article ourselves with otherivke unemployed people, is dearer to us than if we paid such of our own unemployed people for its production fifty pounds per annum per man. That n large taxation can be supported only by a - large in come, that neither the quality or cost of things are State ques tions, but belong solely to traffickers, producers, and consum ers, arid that all that statesmen have to do is to ascertain their value to the State and protect them ,accordimgly. The time of meeting will be announced iu a future adver tisement.—The Gentlemen who attend it are. requested to be pi spared to approve or to dispute .the accuracy of the above propositions. The Editors of Newspapers, and other publi cations, are invited to insert arguments in opposition to these principles, provided they do the same by the answers. Those who understand the fundamental rules on which the propo sitions are grounded, as well as those who do nut, and yet feel a lively interest in their success, if found to be tree, may learn funk(' particulars, (if by letter past-paid,) on applica tion to JOSEPH PINSENT, . .22, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London. P. S. No Englishman has completed the discharge or his duty while one means remains untried of averting the approaching fatal crisis of his country. THE ANNUAL REGISTER. A. new volume under this title has just been issued by the RIVINGTONS, one of the oldest and most respectable Literary Firms in this country, and whose publications have been invariably characterized by a strenuous attachment to those principles inThurch and State, which have placed this country on its present unparalleled height of political and commercial importance. This work is introduced by a candid and well-written Preface, which states some new arrangements that appear to us, as far as we have had an oppor tunity of judging of the whole, as constituting a general and striking improvement. We shall re sort to it on future occasions for matters that we are sure will afford amusement as well as instruc tion to our Readers; but we shall now confine ourselves to the commencement of its opening chapter, which presents a character of our late KING that at once gives a true portrait of that excellent Sovereign, in his public and private capacity, and holds forth such an example of IVlo- NA►tCIIIC4L WISDOM, - VIRTUE, and FIRMNESS as ought to be followed by every Potentate o❑ earth, for then every Government would be secure, and every people happy. " The opening of the year 18420 was di,tin guished by the terminatio►► of the longest and most memorable reign in our annals. GEORGE the Third died full of years and glory ; and, though a lengthened period of suffering and per sonal humiliation' had latterly abstracted him hardly the same materials or, ,opportunities for forming an accurate judgment ; and, to say the truth, this consideration is of very secondary im portance. We do not know whether the occur rence of extraordinary talents and energy in the Sovereign would.not in our state be rather incon venient than useful. The powers of the late King's mind were not perhaps of what is con sidered the highest order, but he was confessedly endowed with a sound, vigorous, practical under standing, which commonly led him right in his judgment of men and things;- and often, perhaps, as far as ordinary, affairs were concerned, to con elusions ,more accurate and safe than might have been, arrived at by intellects of a finer temper. In his application to business he was regular and steady : and the reports of all those at all quali fied to judge, agree in affirming that he always betrayed an intelligence perfectly competent to the proper comprehension of the subjects which were submitted to - his consideration. His education had been rather neglected ; and his reading was supposed to be neither exten sive nor systematic ; but he was far from de ficient in information. Ile had cultivated a habit of continual inquiry in his intercourse with others ; an, intercourse, we may observe, which from his general frangness of disposition, included a much greater variety of classes than might have been expected ; and in the course of this, his mind, aided by his natural acuteness of observation, and an uncommon retention of me mory, had acquired a mass of various and useful knowledge, such as perhaps has been possessed by few persons in his station, and which, from its practical nature, and connection with men as they actually exist, was, perhaps, of all others, the kind of information that he was most likely to turn to good account in the exercise of the duties of his station: " In the ordinary habits of his life he was eminently simple and uniform; he had not a taste but was characteristically manly and ap propriate to the character of an English gentle man. It has been truly observed, that even his amusements were patriotic, and the interest which he shewed himself to take in agricultural process and experiment, was not less honourable to his taste than it was useful by its example ; which, it is probable, co-operated materially in maintaining that love of a country life which still happily continues to distinguish our landed pro prietors." A Meeting of Owners and Occu ..Is of Land in the County of Devon was held at the Hotel, in Exeter,'On Thursdal last. Upwards of 500 Gentlemen of gre,at respec tability and landed property were present. ROBERT Hushr, • Esq. (the late High Sheriff), was called to the Chair, and opened the Meeting in a few words Colonel DRAKE (of Ipplepen) stated what he considered the cause of the distress :—The transition from so long a war to peace, • and consequently the advantages now possessed by other nations, we having before enjoyed a monopoly ; the quantity, of foreign grain in 1818-19; the return to Cash Pay ments before the nation was in a fit state to receive it ; the heavy load of taxes which the war brought upon us; the reduction of wages as the consequence of the great reduction of labour ; and the increase of the poors' rates: Col. Drake then said that he should, with due respect, .submit what he considered as pro- - bable remedies :—A fair and proper tax on foreign labour, coming into this country in the shape of foreign grain ; for why should not foreigners pay towards our taxes, if they have the benefit of our money for it? He proposed the follow ing Resolutions :- Ist. That it is the opinion of this Meeting the distress of the Agriculturists of this country has, during the three last years, been very severe, and is still alarmingly increasing. " 2d. That this distress has. been chiefly occasioned by the importation of nearly thirty millions of bushels . of foreign corn, duty free,. in 1818 and 1819 ; by the enormous amount of taxation and' parochial rates, as compared with the prices of all agricultural productions; by the undue presture of that taxation on the landed interest ; and by the too speedy return - to a metallic currency. - ' . • • . - " 3d. That to stay the progress of that distress which the Agriculturists are suffering, and which is rapidly .spreading among other classes of society, it is the opinion, of this Meeting that all descriptions of capital, however invested, should fairly Participate in the general onus of taxation ; that the most rigid economy should be observed in the public expenditure; and that all the productions of the soil of the United Kingdom should be protected by efficient duties from the import of similar commo dities duty-free." The Rev. HENRI' BARKER seconded the Resolutions. Dr. TUCKER (of Ashburton) began by saying that the Gentleman who opened the proceedings had stated six causes of the existing distress s—The first was a transition from war -to peace, and that other nations, almost exclusively, enjoyed the benefits which peace should produce ; the second was the im portation of foreign grain ; the third a'return to cash payments ; the next,-our heavy taxation-,and here, when he had got hold of the monster, he treated him very mildly, gently, and deli cately ; though the monster 'was like the " Old Man of the Mountain" on die shoulders of Sinbad the Sailor, who, if they did not shake him off, would drown them ; the next, was the reduction of wages, and the increase of poor rates. He then proposed his remedies, the first of which was, a further tax on foreign grain ; but he had not gone far enough—he had not , stated what a fair and proper tax was. The Gentleman who seconded had told them, that no great benefit could be derived from a reduction in taxation ; a greater mistake could not have been made, and had he compared the difference between the 'ex pence of governing this country in 1792 and 1820, he would not have ventured to make such an assertion ; in the former year the total charge was 7,714,5901. and in the present, 19,159,8071. But so long as they were willing to pay, the Government would be willing to receive, instead of bringing, down the public ex , 'lances to their pockets and purses. It would not he amiss to examine a little whether our taxation could not be lowered. In 1820, the Army Expences were nine millions, and the Navy seven millions ; but touch neither the army nor navy, and a reduction may still be effected.—Mr. Webb Hall, the Secre tary of the Agricultural A ssoc i a tion, who had never learnt even the horn-book of political science, and whom the veriest child may confute, had told them that if they could get an ad ditional importation duty, all would be pleasant and easy ; but this was a scheme as wild as that of the wise men of Goshen, endeavouring to hedge in the cuckoo without laying down the roof. , Their only remedy was in reducing the expe nditure of the country to the prices of the agricultural produce; for if they ' continue twelve months longer without such reduction, they • would be in a worse state than what they are nosy. In conclu sion, Dr. Tucker proposed that instead of the present meeting . entering into Resolutions, they should present a requisition to ' the Sheriff for ceiling a County Meeting to consider this great question and apply to Parliament for the remedy . Ile would go a little further, because Lord Castlereagh had said that the County of Devon gave him more trouble than all the rest; he would recommend separate Petitions from every town and village in the County; these, supported by our County Members , Must have weight. Dr. Tucker then stated his motion in form for convening a ('ountyMeeting. CA LMADY P. HAM LYN,' Esq. seconded the motion. — lie conceived that protecting duties were of little service, for it was in vain ' to bring their goods to market if there were no buyers. The Rev. T. CLACK thought the best course would be for the Chairman to prepare a Requisition. Colonel CUTSIAFFE said the Meeting could confine itself to a Petition to Parliament for relief. W. SANFORD, 'Esq. said, that it was desirable that so great a County as Devon, the second in extent in the kingdom, should come forward'and express its opinion in a body. One class of men ought not to be sacrificed to the interests of another; and if Agriculturists were expected to lower their rents twenty and twenty-five per cent. funded and .mortgaged properties should be reduced in the same proportion. The Honourable N. FELLOWES wished 'to know from whom the Resolutions were supposed to come • were they from certain individuals in the neighbourhood of 'Exeter, or were , they to he supposed to represent the County of Devon ? With ' a few alterations, they would have his concurrence ; but he thought the weight and influence of the Resolutions would be increased by emanating from a County Meeting convened by authority. Sir THOMAS ACLA ND said, that he came there with a ' disposition to hear and be informed on a subject in which he felt himself deeply interested. By a cousiderable portion of those present, a County Meeting was desired. Deriving what little consequence he possessed from the freeholders of the county, it would be strange indeed if he attempted to lessen the , importance of a County Meeting; and he was persuaded neither the Sheriff nor any other Magistrate would_interpose to prevent ' them from assembling. ; The Hon. N. FEITIOWES in the absence of Dr. Tucker, . thee. proposed " That a Requisition be signed by the persons ' now present, and be sent to the'Sheriff, requesting him to con- L vene a County Meeting." The motion was carried by a large . . MPJOTIty, Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, for his impartial '. conduct. I The Requisition was immediately prepared and signed by 1 e i n te ire s ) oli s t e t n io t n , s; including and,w I m of a t n he G or e i n g a n e u m il e th h e av i e 'r s o m Po c e e er he a frd d , S h ec nis e t r, been signed by Lords Rolle and Graves, with many other highly respectable and distinguished persons. FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITO any of your readers can give information on the following subject, it will he highly gratifying to an Inquirer who wishes to know more of the Olden Times, and be news to many inhabitants of London : Ilow many years is it since Divine Service, or, as it was then called, early prayers (at five or six o'clock in the morning) has been discontinued in the Chapel or Cut under St. Paul's ? About 25 or 30 years back, the service was performed only once a year ; many persons, no doubt, are alive, who remember the.above ; the leading desk covered with embroidered red vel vet, or cloth, but in great decay, was visible at that period. The Chapel was dedicated to St. Faith. Your obedient servant, A BIT OF AN ,ANTIQUAINAN. London, Jan. 22, 1822. WESLEYAN MISSIONS.—The Annual Meeting of the Queen-street Branch Missionary Society --was held in the Great Queen-street Chapel' ou Monday evening, JOSEPH BUTTRWORTHi 'Esq. M.P. in the Chair. By . the Report made at the meeting of Missions, conducted by the Parens Society, it appeared that the Society have extensive Missions in the West Indies among the Negroes, in Ceylon and Continental India, in West and South Africa, New South Wales, Van Dieman's Land, and other parts of the world. It was stated that the Society employs in this work one hundred and ,fifty Missionaries, intlq pendent of Catechists .and other subordinato agents ; and that the number of persons con nected with them in religious society on the above Missions, is upwards of 28,000, who, for the most part, have been converted from Pa- L;anism. The number of , children taught the principles of Christianity and useful knowledge in the schools connected with those Missions, and superintended by the Missionaries, A was stated to be in the island of Ceylon . 5,000.; in the West ,Indies, 4,227; and in the island of Newfoundland, 987. The contributions to . -She Parent Society were last year upwards of 4 2.6"0/. being upwards of 2,0001. more than hatibeen raised for these benevolent purposes iil any 4. for mer year ; but still leaving the general' treasury considerably in advance owing to the extent-of the Society's operations.