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WIAZARD and CO. hope to be as Fortunate NEXT TUESDAY;as they were in the Last and Pre ceding Lottery, when they had the pleasure of dividing the fol lowing Capital Prizes , viz.— 15,900 £30,000 1 , • 6,054 X15,000 15,902 , .21,000 1,16,427 5 000 , . _ _ THE LONDON JOURNALS. effective * Sinking Fund, extedsiVe r .retrenChmenti in all .the . branches of ..our expenditure, and a large, immediate, and progresSive reAticti'on or our taxes, are tlie . othefs. in these there is- ng . ,-- ther prejudice nor delusion. They are-se..lu they are felt, they ,can be proved they'ar; causes not only adequate to the effect, but pe7. ,, (patient in their nature. Any rise founded upol , . them is therefore natural, iloCaitifi - eial..;",i,t almost inevitable, and' cannot fail -to be lastiits.4. Capitat—k7so,ooo EXTRACTS 'FROM THE DAILY MORNING ~PAPE:',:S, _February •- . _ Lives insured With this Company are allowed to pass Iry flea from one part of the United Kingdom to another; and , alio, in time of peace, to pass in King's Ships and Packets, or other decked Vesitels, between British i'orts and such Fo ftignPorts as iie between Ostend and Havre de Grace, both incltided, without extra premium, and without being stib itsted to the inconvenience of applying for the special leave of the Directors, as heretofore required by the usual condi tions of Life Policies. By Order of the Board, JOHN GREY, Actuary. Among the Purcbaleri at,tl;eir - old-est4blished Uffides, 93, Royal Exchange, 26, Conillill, 324, Oxford-street, • Corner of Swallow-street. The ter,- Fir;t. Prize drawn £so,ooo.—The Scheme contain: pitais,—and not Two Blanlis to 'NEXT TUESDAY will have is 5 of .C 20,000 , 7-79 other Ca r a Prize. ..IVEXT TUESDAY the -DIU:TING. of the 1 1 1 Present much-approved STATE LOTTERY will com mence. The Scheme contains SEVENTY-FIVE CAPITAL PRIZES! FIVE PRIZES of £20,000!- [NEW .] Persons insured for the whole term of Life will participate Periodically in two-third parts of the prolits.of the Company, by additions to the sums insured. Rates and Conditions may be bad,, by applying at either of the Company's Ot.sces. A liberal Agency is allowed to Professional Men effecting ANTI-MILDEW PROCESS. IN addition to the number of EXPERI, MENTS in favour „of. thjs InVention, made tby orders from the Admiralty and Nary Boards, In all parts of the World, and by Ship-owners and others in the Mercantile ser vice, the PROPRIETORS have received the following valu able Testimonial:— " I have to acquaint you, that in Augnstlast I had a Main sail repaired of Canvas, one Cloth of which had undergone !'oar Process, with others of the same make and number, an. prepared. The Cutter has completed her voyage to and from the coast of Africa; and the same Mainsail continued - berit the whole of the voyage, Nom the middle of September lsit, to the beginning of February IBM The Prepared Cloth has not suffered by Mildew ; and the adjoining Cloths (not prepa re,) are materially injured. The Cotter's first Gib, which Wlk repaired entirely with your Prepared Canvas, does not Alt.twany symptoms of Mildcw. " 0. B. WALLER. " Feb. 18, 1692. Master of Cutter Trafalgar." • N. 8.---The above facts :ire also certified by Messrs. WAL XER. and CO. Sail-Makers, SW, Wapping, where the Sails toay be seen—three pieces of which are in the possession of tROWELL and Co. at their Warehouse,. 23, Aldermaubury, stamped by Messrs. W. and Co. BEAUTIFUL HAIR. THE effect of a beautiful Head of Hair on the Countenance has been at all times a theme of ad miration, and the Proprietor of the following article has the Mtisfactinn to appeal to most of the Nobility for the truth of the assertion, that ATKINSON'S CURLING FLUID, or VE GETABLE HAIR OIL, is the greatest beautifier of the Hair ever invented. It clears the Dander from Children's beads, apd givei their Hair a peculiar beauty. It makes the Hair, if has or dry, soft and glossy as silk,and gives it such sti ength ,nd elasticity that it retains the Cull dining exercise in the dance, or Promenade, or in damp weather. It prevents its turning grey or falling off, and is well known to Medical Men, for its superiority in regenerating its growth.—Price 3s. 6d. Caution.—As it has been counterfeited and imitated by nuri3erons ' needy speculators, the Public will _please to ob serve the Proprietor's Name and Address distinct on the - _ N. B.—This Caution particularly applies to the Country, and to Foreivt Merchants. Also, ATKINSON'S VEGETABLE DYE, which changes Grey or Red Hair to a permanent Brown or Black ; price ss. And ATKINSON'S AMBROSIAL SOAP, made by a new Process.—lt is much milder than the common Soaps. It Counteracts their pernicious effects on the Skin. and makes it loxoriously soft; white, and even; price Is. Soldby the Proprietor, Mr. Atkinson, Perfumer, 44, Ger - l iirrst""' Soho-square ; Gattic, 57; Smith, 116; Rigge, 35, d-street; Grange, 196; Frith: and Langley, 45, Oxford street P...yley and Blew, Cockspur-street ; Johnston, 65, Cornhill, and most Perfumers. RIVINGTON'S ANNUAL REGISTER. I' his Day was published, - 1n One very large Volume, Ociavo, piice 11. 4s. in boards, THE ANNUAL. REG . IS I.7ER ; or, a View - of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Lear 1797. a s,* This Volume will be found to contain a more full and ''accurate narrative of the events of the year 1797, than has hi therto appeared. Much care has been bestowed upon the lt, c count of the Dom e stic Proceedings of Great Britain and -I rattce ; and the history of the struggles, negotiations, and ) utiigues in Italy, has been composed from new documents of u nquestionable' authority. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 62, St. Paul's Church 7T, and 3, Waterloo- place, Pall Mall. f - ss * The Volume for the year 1798 will be published in a ;* months; and that for 1799 is in forwardness. The " dum e fur 1810, in continuation of the Second Series, will 4 1)l eir,,on the 30th of March. 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Afte/ dinner,' the farmers, who were not able to find room at the Swan, came from the other market dinners 'for the purpose of bearing the discussion which was expected, as to the causes, extent, and remedy of the present distress under which the Agricu . ltural body suffered.—The following toasts were given from the Chair : " The King, and may he never forget his own words, viz. .‘ That he held his Crown in trust for his " with three times three. " The memory of the injured and lamented Queen Caro line," in solemn silence. " The" Royal Family, and may they never forget the priti_ elides which placed their Family on the Throne of this Kingdom." Mr. WOOLDRIDGE then addressed the Meeting. He said, that it was needless in him to take up the time of that company by any statement of that with which they were all too fully acquainted, namely, the depressed state of the agri cultural interest. He saw with pleasure around him a great proportion of the farmers in that part of the County of Sus sex, sonic of them from thirty miles distance, who were all more or less suffering under that depression. It was natural for men so situated, to feel great anxiety for the fullest. in formation on a subjtct, in which not only their personal in. terests, but the prosperity of the kingdom, was involved. It was with great satisfaction, therefore, that he saw near him a gentleman whose name was known to them all—whose writings were in the hands of the farmers of the kingdom, and who, perhaps, was the individual best qualified, as hav ing foreseen the distress, to point .out the remedy. It was unnecessary, after this description, to.say he meant Mr. Cob bett.—(Lood applause).—lle rose therefore to propose th e health a that gentleman, thanking him for the honour of his company that day, and with the hope.that he would take the trouble of delivering his opinions to the company on that most important subject. • The health of • Mr. Cobbctt was drank with three times three. _ _ Mr. COBBETT, having thanked the meeting for the honour they had done him, said, that he would by no means hold out a hope to them that he was able to perform the wish. that the too high opinion of the Worthy Chairman had as signed him ; but that he would endeavour not to make what was called a speech—one of those things by which the Arch- Impostor had so largely contributed towards producing the present ruin ; but he would endeavour to communicate to the meeting sonic really useful information as to matters in which they were all so deeply interested. In consequence of the public announcement of the fact that he had been invited to attend at that meeting, a writer in a Brighton newspaper bad sa.d, that "Cobbett was not wanted at Chichester, for that the Duke of Richmond and Lord Selsea had not raised their rents during the.war ; and that, therefore, the farmers in the neighbourhood of Chichester were not in distress, and wanted no Cobbett to talk to their on the subject." He (Mr. Cobbett) was ignorant as to the facts stated in that letter; thase who rented under the two Noblemen, best knew whether their rents had been raised during the war; hut, supposing the fact to be true—supposing their .rents not to have been raised---yet, if these tenants believed that they could not pay the rents of the year 170, .he (Mr. Cobbett) was sure that they need " Cobbett," or some body.else, to shew them their error. and to save them from ruin. That the prices were lower now than before the war, he spewed by referring to Returns from Greenwich Hospital, that the prices of Flour, Wheat, and Cheese, were higher in the ycar'l79o than at this time ; and then he asked—whether, with the present increased . burens, it was possible for the farmer to pay the rents of that year ?—(" No, no, no!") — He had, on a recent occasion, shewn the error on which that liberal Nobleman Earl Fitzwilliam, had acted, when he so generously reduced his rents 45 per cent., and he would now, in illustration of the question, mentioma similar error into which another great and respectable Nobleman (the Marquis of Stafford) had fallen. His Lordship,iii order to reduce his rents to a just standard, in order to obviate the exits of fluc tuating prices, and, of course, fluctuating means of pay ing rents; with this laudable effort in view his Lord ship had settled the terms • of a corn rent with his tenants, which terms were these—taking ten shillings a bushel for wheat to be the price adequate to the paying of the war rent, and supposing a farm to have then paid 4001. a year rent, the same farm (wheat being at Sc. a bushel) was to pay 2001. a year rent; and, if the wheat fell to 2s. 6d. a bushel, it was to pay tool. a year rent, and so on. Nothing at the first blush could be more fair, more honourable than that; it was on the part of that Nobleman repairing the injury inflicted by the paper system ; restoring in his, opinion the balance of justice broken by the shifting of the 'currency. But, though he had heard and thought the fact very probable, that Mr. Huskisson had been the adviser of that measure, he (Mr. Cobbett) was convinced that the saes sure .was .founded in a great oversight of those who advised, and who adopted it. If, indeed, the whole of the outgoings of the farmer consisted of rent, then nothing could be more completely just than the voluntary offer of the Noble Mar quis ; but every farmer knew, not one out of the hundreds that then did him the bottom - to hear, did not well know that "the rent formed but a comparatively small portion of the out goings of a farm. To have made the arrangement of the No ble Marquis practically just, he ought to have taken all the other outgoings into view—the outgoings occasioned by the addition to the taxes and rates, which.were very nearly as high in nominal amount as they were during the war, and which were, in fact, nearly tiller times as great in amount as at that time. The taxes going out silently-in the form of wages, poor-rates, hills to agricultural•tradesmen, and for ar ticles consumed in the farm-house, were twice in amount that of rent; and therefore these should have been taken into ac count by Lord Stafford, and if they had been, he would have found that the farmer, though the rent were settled according to the price of corn, could have little or nothing left to pay any Tent at all with.—(Hear, hear.)—Now all these observa tions apylied to the case of tin tenants of the Noble Duke and the Noble Lord before mentioned, who, admitting the fact, of which he knew nothing, that these tenants were still, and always had remained at the tents of 1790, could not now pay the rents of 17P0, except out of the capitals, which must in time. be exhausted, that is So say, the ruin of these tenants thirst finally conic.—(Heat:, hear, hear !).—We had, howester, now beard broached the monstrous doctrine that taxes do not eause'any - part of the distress,-that taxes never ;ould be op pressive to the tamer and that doctrine was pressed with an eagerness characteriStic of perfect desperation.—(Cheers.)— • It signifrednothing tildt all mankind had always been of a di f fereut opinion—it signified nothing that the Agricultural Coals inittee had said fliAlii:Ce4 dial produce distress t it signified' , nothing that common- ssoise cried albud against the prelims terrotis assertion. Mr. Ricardo, Marquis of Lonetouderry, Mr. Vansittprt, and Mr. Huskisson, did now boldly assert, that taxes weremet the'cause of the distress, and that the repeal of them would add to the slistress, rather than produce relief: There needed to men of sound .onderstanding,stich . as those to' whom he was then addressing himself, no areinnent in answer to an assertion somonstrOus ; but he would roeut ion a siurie fact, which he would throw-down as a challenge to the trill'e of these wise economists. On the day of the Meeting at Epsom), Mr. finiowleS s of Thursley, pot into his (Mr. C.'s) memorandum, stating that a farmer had `'few days before taken , g 4 imartersmf.barley to a maltster at Godalmiug s and ie exchange had , carried home four quis s tass s of malt and eijtht shillings. Now - had_there been- no - tflf• oil. the malt, he would have taken home in exchange for his harks, the Same four quarters of malt, and sight pourols instead of eight shillinga.—(Continued eliters:)—Need it be asked whet heethe eight pounds . womld not !lace gone further than the eight s - shillings in'enabling the fat veer to pay rent? And need there lie .One more word said to confute the doctrine now pressed on tile Country by Mr. Ricardo and the Ministers ?—(No, no).—it being* so ; evident that the taxes were the great cause of the 'inability to pay rent; it being so evident, that when the capi tals of the present tanners were exhausted, there would be no rents at all • it being evident, that having absolved the capital of the :fanner, and the rent of the landlord, the Go vernment must next go to the tithes;—all this being so evi dent, it would naturally he asked, how it came to pass that the landlords, the greatest of whom really filled the seats in 'the two Houses of Parliament, were so blind to their own in terest as not to reduce the taxes? . To account for the' seem ing insensibility, he must state what it gave him no pleasure to slate. 'These landlords had but too many of their other interests to attend to besides their estates. They were in faCt deeply interested in keeping up the taxes. He disliked being; on an occasion like this, personalin his observations, but at the same time, unless he spoke out his mind freely, he should be wholly unworthy of the honour that the Meetinghad done him. Of the Noble Duke of Richmond he had never hear l d any harm, and hal, during the few hours be had been in his neighbourhood, heard a great deal of good—(hear, hear!` ; but he could not but know that the Noble Duke was a large re ceiver of taxes. Of another Noble Peer (the Earl of Egremont), of his generosity, his goodness towards his tenants, his hu mane disposition, of his gi eat consideration for the labouring elasses—(Cheers)he (Mr CO had heard a great .deal ; he firmly believed all he - hait heard, and he himself could, from his own experience, if it were necessary, state a strong proof of the candour, liberality, and frankness of that Nobleman; yet he (Mr. C.) must observe, that it was perfectly notorious that'some members of the Noble Lord's family received, and had long received, large sums of money out of these same bur densome tares. That being the case, the feelings of land lords were-divided; they naturally wished fur rent, bet they liked the taxes too—(A laugh)—and they were, therefore, disposed to listen to and believe those who told them that time and patience on the part of the farmers would give them both.--(Hear!)—'There was another person couneeted with that part of the country, with regard.to whom he did not think it necessary to be so very ceremoinous, he . meant'Mr. Hoskisa son.—(Great laughing, and eagerness to hear.)—That Gentle man had, perha es,no verygreat landed estate of his own,though he had a Yerylarge one belonging to the public unsler his ma nagement (hear!) the rents of which were a wonderful thing', if there were time to notice them. But Mr. Huskisson was in the actual receipt of from fiall' tc six thousand pounds a-year out of the taxes; lie, besides, had lung had settled on him a pension of 1,2001. a-year for life, whenever' he should be re ceiving less than 2,0001. ayear from the public in some.ether way,—(hear,)—and with t bar commendable feelingof conjugal tenderness which became an affectionate husband—(a laugh,)' —had provided for luturityaud his relatives, by securing to his wife a pension of from six hundred to a thousand pounds (he did not then recollect the precise amount, but it was included within the sums he had nientioned,) to commence from the day of his death.—(continued cheers.)—Could the Meeting be atany loss to discover a reason why Mr. Huskisson was so blind as not to see that eight pounds would have been better than eight shillings to. the. Thursley farmer, and to that farmer's landlord ?—(1-lear,.hear, hear.) — And here he begged them to mark the 'change in Mr. Haskisson's way of thinking as to taxation. That gentleman was an advocate fOr the Corn- Bill in 1;315, and upon that occasion lie said, that " While the present taxes remained; the people must be content to cat dear bread." Now, however, he said that it as-as good to have cheap bread; and good also to have high taxes—(Heat, hear!) He (Mr. C.) expressed, in - 1815, his concurrence in ()pinion .with Mr. Hu'skision, who was burnt in effigy at Havant for the very saying new. quoted. But , he could not now agree with the man who contended with all his might for the pre cise eoutiary of that .which he contended for in 1815. He next proceeded to shew (in somewhat the same manner as at the Epsom Meeting) that there was every reason to believe that toe prices of farm produce must yet - fall very'consider ably. He hear adverted to the Ministerial pamphlet, ascribed to Air. Courtenay, and containing the proposition that prices must rise, because they did not now yield sufficient to pay the,. cost of raising the crop. The cost consisted of wages of vari ous sorts, rates, taxes, traiesman'sliills, and interest of the farnier'scapital. TheSe were all paid dailyand-hourly. There was no annual audit fur the Tax,gatherer.—(Hears)—No, no, his silent hand was unceasingly in minion to take from the .farmer. The rent and - the farmer's profit consisted of what might be left—they were surplus, and tint cost. But, to cut the matter short, what was the conclusion to which that doc-• trine of political economical 'necessity would lead ? Why this —that if 101. an acre additional rt.." were now put on, prices must rise to meet that addition.—(Hear.)—Hence they came at once souse into the mental mire of the great Corn Bill Qnack, namely,thatit was high price thatscaused the increase, and not large quantities of currency that caused high price ; so that it was not time assignats that caused the French loaf to sell for a thousand francs, but the high price of land and other timings that . caysed the asSignats. Prices must rise, they said, because they were not, high enough now to enable the farmer to pay rents.. Faith, there was no must in the case --nor would time brilliant idea of Mr. Ricardo he found to be more true, that the laud would go out of cultivation. Do, I pray you, Gentlemen, 'said Mr. Cobbett, pause a moment to contemplate this piece of matchless absurdity. Do, I be seech you; ask yourselves what you ate to expect from the wisdom of men, who, with grave faces, - can state to you that the throwing of land out of cultivation is necessary to relieve the Farmer and the Landlord ? Oh, no ! land would not lie thrown out of cultivation. The people, let come what would, must:have and svpuld havelood and raiment—the land must be and would be • tilled—the present farmer first, next, the landlord, and next the parson, might be stripped naked, and lints stripped they mutt he, if t he present 'faxes continued to enforced;he tort the land would still be tilled and the people fed', though the farmer might be, in fact, the tenant of the Gorernment. Mr. Western, the Member for the County of Essex, has said there must be a struggle be tween the landlord and -the fundholder, forgetting that the fundholder comes not in the open field, for there his defeat Was certain, but coming as he does by the silent hand of the Taxgatherer,he makes the revolution in:property, without giving the landowner the chances of a struggle. Far from his (Mr. C,'s) wishes would be a state of things which would in' all human probaliilitrovetturn that Porn of Govern ment under which their lot efathers had enjoyed's°. much free dom arid renown—(Cheers ;)—but his conviction was, and he solemnly declared it Ofore that most respectable- Meeting, that unless those reductions, were made, to the making of which a Reformed Parliament only could he adequate, this kiugdom could never again' iee pro'sperous and happy days— (Cheers.) He concluded amidst the loudest peals of appianse, having begged permission to give as a toast, " Energy and prosperity to the County of.Snssex.7, Mr. Cobbett retired from the room in a few minutes., and 'the remainder•of the evening Was spent in a more particular , consideration, of Ilmt important s question, as it affected the in dividual interests of the. Farmers assembled. • . . "The City of Chichester Wai in the Inornlicg aroused by the circulation of a number of hand-bills, tending to chew the impropriety of listening to " Cobbett, who had su often called the farmers jolterbeads." • . [MORNING CHRONICLE.] A Lisbon packet ? . which left the Tagus on the ' 12th instant, arrived yesterdaY. The 6th had been observed as a - day of national festivity, be ing the anniversary of the . King's Coronation. Great rejoicings had falken place, the forts and shipping fired Royal salutes, and in the evening the King attended the Theatre, accompanied by consort, son, and the three beautiful Princesses. He was received by a select audience 'in the most enthusiastic Manner, as is the case now where ever' he makes' his public appearance, so much is he endeared to the people by the sincere regard he has paid to their welfare, the firmness with which he upholds the new institutions, and the Cordiality and unaniinity that 'prevails . In every department of the Government. The King had applied to the Cortes, requesting them to make 'the necessary arrangerneiits for the conveyance of the remains of his late. mother, Queen Mary 1., from the Convent of St. Josedeßiba. Mor, where they are now deposited, to the Convent of La Estrella,. built .by herself. This ceremony was to take place on the.2oth March, the anniversary Of her death. Five Deputies to the Cortes, from . the Province' of St. Paulo, had arrived at Lisbon from Rio Janeiro. The chief discussions of the Cortes have been on the subject of the new Pro ject relating to the Oporto Wine Company, and, a continuation of the Articles of the Constitu tion:7-4 Decree has been . published relative to the sale of wine of the Alto Douro, which states, that the whole quantity of wine, of the first qua lity, .is 54,569 pipes ; of the second quality, 11,214 ; acid , •adding those in the magazines of Douro and Porto, the whole is 137,1134 pipes. It is allowed to export to, England 25,000 pipes, to be selected 'from those of the first quality, at the price of 45,000 real per pipe. • [MORNING HERALD.] There are various accounts from the Northern countries of Europe. An article from Stuttgard is somewhat of a curiosity. The Courts, it ap pears, of Vienna and Berlin, required the King of NV irt emberg to restrict the liberty of the Piess in his dominions—tO which requisition that Sovereign magnanimously refused to accede, alleging that he acted upon- the conditions laid down at the Congress of Carlsbad, and would re ceive no new instructions. The Austrian Go vernment is occupied with " a grand Administra tive project,"—the re-establishment of the Jesuits " in their ancient splendour," with supreme do minion over education ! This project, it is added, has been hitherto retarded by financial embar rassments. There is scarcely any thing new from Constantinople—if we except a paragraph in the Journal des Debuts, dated Vienna, the 6th. This paragraph states, that an • English 'courier had passed, on his return from St. Petersburgh, whither he- had been charged with an important note from Lord London derry to the Court of Russia. 'his note, it is said, pressed - earnestly the preservation of peace, but declared that England would, in case ,pf war between Russia and the Porte, observe a strict neutrality—reserving the right of sending rein forcements of troops to Corfu, and .a stronger naval force to the Mediterranean. The Divan is stated, for at least the hundredth time to be sending two formidable ekpeditions against the Greeks—the one to the Morea, and the other to Epirus. But in the mean time the Greeks ap pear to go, on with scarce any opposition. The reported pacification between the Porte and Persia, and the death of the N:sian Prince, are vehemently denied—and it is added, that the answer of the Schah of Persia to the English Mi nister, on this subject, was evasive. [MORNING POST.] An, important -discussion took pldce in the, House of Commons last night, ,on the motion of , . Lord Althorpe on the State Of the Country. One of his Lord Ship's principal objects seemed to be . the total abolition of the Sinking Fund, and the application . of the five millions of our surplus revenue to the immediate extinction of an equal amount of taxes, leaving the whole of the Na tional Debt unredeemed and unredeernable. In fUrtherance of • this. Plan, he moved, a resolution, calling upon., the , House to declare, 44 that the reduction of taxation proposed by his Majesty's Ministers is not sufficient to satisfy the just ex pectations of the people," - Mr. Robinson elo quently combated. the arguments of. the, Noble .Lord, and after victoriously proving the import ance of Maintaining public credit, and of being satisfied with progressive reductions, both in the expenditure. 'and in the taxes, :moved, in amendment, resolutions conformable to the vote originally passed _upon the subject. Mr. Tier ney 'contended, that to raise 'the funds to an artificial height would not prove ,ultimately beneficial to the, country, : as their fall would he certain, whenever the propelling impulse should cease to operate.' This arginneuf is - sound in itself and the position undeniable ; but neither are applicable in the present case. Should the funds attain a great elevation in consequence of what is now passing,: that elevation would nei ther be,nor could justly be called " artifiCial," An 44 artificial" rise is that which is produced by causes inadequate to the effect, but rendered operative at the time beyond their natural power by' extraneous feelings or' circumstances, such:as prejudice or delusion. Now the steps by which our Funds may mount are clear, sure, and sub stantial... A flourishing revenue is the first ; an Last night, in the House of Commons,. ficr: Althorpe moved a Resolution,that the redustio , prOpOsed by Ministers are not sußcient .t.(l.:Sa'tisf2 the just. expectations of the People:: His Lord ship's motions hare seldom been'*ery sucCEs.?rui. and therefore-be probably had not raisecl.his.g4 . - pectations of success very'highin the present iv stance, .There 4:ertaiuly are persons who the proposed reductions insufficient ; there. cr others who think theM too great; but we ay inclined to believe that the people,, propor!: ; - speaking,_ will be best satisfied to leave the settlernent of this point to the discretion of his Majesty's Ministers, who, they are well sured, will make every exertion to foster and im prove the'resources of the country.--The great object to which all enlightened men now direct their wishes, is the reduction of interest on that stock which forms the heaviest burthen on the State in proportion to its capital. Such an at , tempt would not and ought not to:be made, un less Government were Ivell assured that the proper interest of money in England was ConSi= derably below 5 per cent. The very proposal, therefore, on their part, is a gratifying circum stance ; since it proves their confidence - in the real energy of the country ; notwithstanding the severe temporary pressure on a partictilar class of society. And NOT TWO BLANKS to .a PRIZE. CARROLL,-in requesting the attention of his Friends to the `advantages of the Schente,as above enumerated, cannot help noticing, with peculiar satisfaction, the success which has Always distinguished his Fortunate °aces, No. 59, CDIVE - lILL, and ti , OXFORD STREE't; where he Sold in the Last Lottery, 11,48 f; ...... a Prize of ‘30,001 4 tB,CC2 And in the late Lotteries, no less than FIVE ...... —Prizes of. -Csomo FIVE A:20,000 . &c. &e. [THE TI M E.,] We know tot what course the proposed coma-' munication between Ministers' and the Holder, , of Five per Cent. Stock may take, nor is it mucli worth the while to speculate on that, upon which the lapse of a few hours will bring us certainty. We must, however, guard ourselves against tl:e imputation of objecting to the project of ho nestly reducing the interest of a portion of the national debt. Ministers, no doubt, hate th, right of frankly tendering to the holders of any species of stock their principal, or a reduction of the interest upon that principal. That - which we 'reprobate in Ministers is their attempt to reduce: the interest, when it_is known to all the world that by. their obstinate adherenCe to an extravagant expenditure, 'they have not 'one• guinea in their coffers to discharge the principal. Ministers ought, we say, to reduce ,the interest upon the Five per Cents. ; but then they ought (as they easily might) also, to have money in their. pos session ready to discharge the principal, to those who refuse to accept the interest at the dimi nished rate. Instead of this, what do they do now ?. They have not one farthing by them to execute this desirable project upon honest terms they therefore attack the holders of the Five per Cents., as the sturdy beggar did . Gil Blas,— with a threat. CIIIUTISII PICESS.] Several Petitions were presented in both Houses. last night, representing the miserable state of the agriculture of the country, and 'praying for relief .by the remission of taxes. It. is very certain that the hopes of the people in every part. of the Em pire have contemplated an extent of reductidnlar greater than the pittance which Lord London= derry has promised to deduct from - lhe malt duty ; and if to the expression of such hopes were objected the necessity of maintaining a : Sinkilig Fund of five millions, the ready answer would he, " diminish still further the expenditure of the - Government, and give the .people a proportion ate relief." The siiicerity . 'of the wishes of Par liament to afford 'relief to the distresSes of the country was tried 'last night in the House of Con*: mons by Lord . Althorpe, who ~ urged the 'expe‘-- diency. of reducing taxes to the amount of at leas't . five millions. The Noble • Lard, in pur suance of a previous notice, moved ti declaring that the reduction in the. -amount 6f taxation proposed by the Ministers ,of the Croln does not satisfy the just desires of the country. This resolution, as an avowal , of a matter of fact,' could not be safely contradicted ;_for if the wishes' . of the people were collected individually upon this questiOnOhe friends of a further reduc tion. in the taxes Ni 7 olll(Fwry far outnumbey the willing contributors to the . Sinking Fund. TUT REFUGE FOR THE'DEsmuTx.—Yester-: day the . Friends and Supporters of this Institu.- lion celebrated their Anniversary Festival, at the City of London Tavern, illiihopsgate-street,:bis Royal Highness the Duke of YOR', lil the Chairy supported en the, left by Lord Sidmouth ;, we also noticed amongst the :company .Lord"Ex mouth,Sir'Claudius Hunter, Sir Charles Flower y Bail. Alderman Atkins, &c. with several Gen tlemen of the Church of England and the Jewisla persuasion. In the course of the' evening the Report was read, from which it appeared that Since•the opening of the- Refage at' Hoxton icr 1806, 1014 females, and 451 males bad been ad mitted. During the last year .115 males and 116 females have been admitted into the Institu tion, and the riuMber' restored to . society with good characters, and .sttpplied. with the means of getting their bread, amounts to 112; and there are now in this .Establishment 60 females and 5-Bmales. ci ir 'ks