The Sun. — London, England, 1811-03-09 00:00:00

We bare lktsea fo! sptoct -tirpeAtlX.l7d.3. to laY be fore our reitiers. sc;tne extr'aEtstifrio s is'a er g vitluable pamphlk, la lel pnblrs 0 Y,`. , le A V6sy Olthe[State of !hi:44 1 61i; a"Ad'af the Meihures for the list. ViSql:Yeansiiifilligesti:d "by Lord Gate's - Speech ii the Lords ) 11 the 13th of Jut.e, Isto." 'ft' w e ll - kodwn,' indrred .00NAPAIITR has .publicly avowed, that lie now rests his g'eat hope of ultimate success against us. ii tLi upon the failure of our finances, and many personw i'Pottlyy, whOse tro-anS of inftiii.matign great, have elcirressed • cdrisi it... Table a pp . rehen-! Aio e ns upo n the subjeci. Ou "i r Reade rs there; ; we are su re , read with pleasure th e observa-,' ~.t-tiona of a Gentleman upon the state of our finances, 'whose further publications have ' eiinced his 4iiimate Anowledge of the t.ub'pEt. ,~ I ;.; - - ''',• .. . • . " In :which direaing our mitnis to thetlifEculticis und e r the country at this moment labaursi,"...Lord Gre y.conceives that we arc in the first place na turally urged to advert to the amount of the pII'AIC Illienditury ,;" I 3 t and. be is struc k with the' exofhi f7 of its incr:ltse from the peace establishment ''fl7ra to the war expen.lture of 1810 , Lord G''4 'a statement of this increase was probably in tended as a s.l ane t of orator i cal inn oduCtioN to hx lbe atio n of his hearers. Lord Grey clearly did not . • t o.t'at , If; aimuaiit a fief like this as a prow' of our dallger, or of 011 r ifl CClTlpete)ley to the exeriimia re quired of us ; he is well trware that it is only by a " 14 1 4 r/sou of our expenditure with our revenues, arid Kith the resources from which those, revenues te.supplied, that any useful cOnelusion• Cr)zi be dr awn, But he loolis, it' seeini, - en'a failure of those • t'otittes,; he is " appalled" try. "oar taxation; by. 'e grievous . and oppres6 ve nieons ~by which - our I. !ethiti ia collected. ; and; " above all, by` thdliftif, Jul siaterTivor, „,,,10,.. by thes4,trolt.iqtria4elY'cpti• ,• ~,, , vertant wilt, such nutters, ibrif-in'Alita equtirsflitsl: "iriti has arrc at'i beigift'b . c - i'oild -.Wfilbl ilreeklidr Pm well. be .carriccl ; that it has been.e'fne(lll&ral7 l'inn,d to its fullest reach ; and that it has ricttely.'at "ell its utmost limits." This " awfutatala"P47 ,2 .1314 vt'e aleti a struts;; sensation in the co u nt s •and . utlserves an attentive consideration. • It is roast iri liejestiug, in its bearing 'upon the general siate of -43 cnuatry, and I hasten. to•sepal<itc that, iron', 11,'e Ixtebb.tr.revonstbnity of tbci• 1 1 4int•ters.. For ' t'eat amount of °nr taxation the pieseth Ministers but in a small degree accountable.; that they n 4 ve bnt lit,ll,e' inCrensed it, is iii fad one of the chWfges 'adduced against them; - It 'is' true t ha' they hart; kstopled mea%nres for enfiirdirg iv more iiectl- T ate and ~speedy . colleo len. qt.. :OW,- tki"o',l •1'14‘11.i.,,'1r 11(kne tliscimtent has been oceiiiirO)ed therisby. - 4 t 1,1,1.1) heWever, be 'fairly eOrii't ti6d, iii 4 ;(4011r- 11.:rAt ,"e aliment of - call coot rthutitisvWi tig 'fi iied by the rt i•it i sl• Htnte,..it is The duty 4 •1)1404;e0.1( ve GoVern nt°io Like care that the quota of each Aft l i , iiiitil • g PIIIIOU:Iliy pH', but u.at-the enforcement of T'''Pllnduality ts•adyantag.•ous tolheindit idual. , • The lquietni:n.l of the day-. of paymeot, is likely• ; .to (1 ilini sti t he power, of ,pay by ettcouriging.an Indivi(tl44l•o 0,64 i,,,,i t:,x t„ttui.!••:tctilation of his t"'-nas; and 'an .•arrear of exiath.g-• taxes naust cal/se- new impsasitions to fail witty . isorelised haidilli • ' P. • • . 1 ., r„1.;". in tro(!.o('.lic , n .of .71 More algid system of • -nit:dißl (I)uy necessarily occasion an unusuai Pressure- in thk. , first necessarily ; and the Govern . mans 1„,, not lost sight of this obvious Inconveni trice, St . ;: ... , , .Lps itArt: beelll,Sakell for mitigating.the al . , seged evils, and remnving whaever of rigour was .e.tinecesary In the due e4,11ce.,1i0% ; and (ag will be g_t'en licreitl4) • 'this •utiumat '''pres , iii . e 11: - heo , o rflon the motives which hav,;hntfueed a iemplara'yy• 1 rbearance from ,impositig new lattrthetes, • • . ' mild 4111 confident that such forbeal:anse Al 4 not been t r tL iti 'red neecsviry by the causes' 'to - Whidlilit: is •at . il u , Li ted ly, Lord Grey. It I - have formed a correict ' of li• ground s of the opinion ~ ‘, l ticli he quotes, eve!Ln frnibtled ttimil three considerations, , tat, Itlat s:tY hr3i.cli of taxati , ,ii has been' largely inc ~n i c e, 1 702 ; Qdly, that o,ie important duty is adu , all In a statcOl decay), And 3dlY, that the attempts laenalie of late et.irs tosarry throngh Parliament low 4 lit(idoelye' taxes,have been peculiarly urisuc tellsfill, • . , • ' - • ' t • . llioklmitiing the tea set forth in'tlie first considot , , , ri i , 11, I ti.isagrce widely as to the conclusion drawn IF 11l it ,) far from considering it as a propilif sr: sexhaust iorr of nur Tesourres.. I Urge Iftthitf aft' : t h,, Q ,'ng, on the other hand the' sin-6st pOge'Of thvat,t remaining competency, lA, 4,pia4CllYltinte',': 0.4 !_eeetY Principal article of reienne,has beef iaitl.!: "'lee,' wice, thriCe, or more, shietiidcprinthi'tic&, a t b . I el of the late war.. If it can be sliew ft that these •"" il lan, f enerallY speakirig, halve riot produced tin ther e , .. -- iK. n revenue, corre.pondingtor ovally Cor ' .11:thrit4t1eling With'the inereaseot taxation-, I will ad -10 _',l.n't a te,mpprary, inent»pctency in the arti.?le . .4 further increame may it is• . fairly be deduced'. But . la g, n o t iaen. ?? - . 4.- thtt the revenue., ,previously exist . th e Ilt, , "mu-Iva to llouriah under the- weight ot 444 ire the - 11)1 8 . is true in the aggro site is g t ile iniuei ' I padetails, MI ' . k ring the late wet, . as we all well remember, irtOnrse was had repeatediy fins` p r oductiv e to every one of' the joh3.._ most.Bources of revenue, including those sta te of''lL_ Initnediately atfeaerl by the internal Ili ur f o " e c e . ceu ttlry,-. and less liable to the fluOna to the dutiet'gr) commerce. Atldttions, were rr.ede 1)144, 1, 0 ,,,„„ 8 "Pow wine; tea„ stigar;-thbaceii,-.#;ttt, • all rertieto`b" 41?) CarriagtSi 110 USkli and s ort We • t iPett e ve er ow regularly. Mr. Pitt'svasNoiitedi ilsniiing t ' T ie (kt o a 'l'm 01. increase, that; he was ex 7 ~,1 enientac_4 untry---that two end two, in frill4ti , e . l i u n_s,'•do . not puke four: iet peisons. benuts:'‘l4vt.l.ctit finance must well know that the „ye wtt4 ~,1 5. .`',1 n ‘.4s expostd to rhele it:plated 'trials. its . 1,07„ Z.P:r(latlai v t• at the close of 1110 war than at -11,,tillytti4(-)tilleleniient. The weight' of • the new bnr tl'e nere,,t "' t ar ce, and the celerity' with . ll' h w : 0 di m ; • `.--, were rene,...l • —.1.11,n. 1 ,, i , r iiwki, oceasHmed a temporary • (1-„a i tt . ve it o fire ' `,.•new taxs aeldrn became pro "Peo pie a t 3 inghtsentA al the increased Pliec, ii t 3,% reUlAted'aloir 4:0118UIT1yI101) ; but tt, helt7l may say invariably,, rreevert4 in opt, or two} , rata. ;Without ft,iloWing,the particular arti cles,. it may be sui& — tont. to observe., that . While, as „has 'been inated, the taxes iikh existed.betore the war had increased in prodnee, the . additions, made to fhem exceeded, at the end of the war, tbe amounts at which they had severally bean esli= When 'Mr;Pitt increased the rate of an existing tax, he grounded his estimate of the produce of the, additicin, upon the produce of the existing ,ttix, ger:, nerally upon an. average of three years. To prote 4 thept.ire, that' the increase had not affected Ahe.old -fax, 'or, other' words, that the consumption was ; not ditninishe the new one, it was sufficient to Sfiew that the new tax was produdive according to the estimate thus formod. Ido not pretend to say that this 11 as unitormly.the case; but it was the case in the } greater, number of instances, and, what is most important, it was true on the whole. The . additiona made to the tevenue, for the purpose of meeting the new charges imposed during the late war;: produced more - than the estimated amount. This is in itself conelu , ,iee, in , proving that at the commencement of the present war, nosymptoms of exhaustion had appeared. The pre.ent war commenced with an addition, in the shape of .a war tax; upoti all the.pt incipal arti cles of customs and excise, This immense addition, coati ,g at once, had tor a tiine the etled that might have been expected ; the increase th: re,b) ucc,,sw ed, in th prthlut:e hf th total (perwanent ,and,temporary) did not immediately ooritsroil -3,11 I, :the est!nta:e; The deficiency, howe , et, was .temporary. A ,petmanlnt addttion was aku tntdd in the years of the war prior to 1807 ,o ti.sess ed taxes, the stamp duties, severel of tiw cusipin duties, sal , tea,, and other duties ut ex. ise.' Ttiese gave also Oren - upon the whuie ptuductivebeyorid the ,estimate. From this pvriod no important increajte of taxation has terkrn place. It appedrs then fur a period at eighteen years,, the vwiotis mu es adopted tot incrOasing our revenue have been vturat:y Auccesstul; that Inge and repeated bin. hi.tis have -been, impised, with 'oin.dinfiitiishing like power by which they arc sus- X feel conlidor Inn ivery parson coNersant, jet J titian( nwill acquiesce in tbe.eor're6tness of my fasts ; 1 ,will non•aptinpt to season upon.. them philosophi cally (nori . ndeed has it been attempted on the other .side) Inv' 1 build upod them a praelical confidence, that tht , ,re still remains in the reventte a capability) consideranle twension. There is nOw reason fun - Apprehension, ,which has nut existed during the whole period oi and whit h did not 'on many occasion, exist in a ntueliiiiver degree, 'The Minister, in 1/93, could not fro-oly haa fote,een tits immenseadditions which he' should b e ena bl e d tomake the Ilevenue, he would not, when prolam in the separate additions upon wine, t, a, or spirits, • have ,k milted to prediOt,that he would, hi the course of the war, be enabled .ag lin and again to have re. course to the same expedient: ‘'There was in' fact, a period about the middle 0. the war, when a vety, general apprehension prevailed, and some j Di plums appeared of a financial tailute. The dithehlty-wils met with new expedient, / and iu twoyettra the alt- prehension and the symptoms bad disappeared) Let hits who is averse-froth &axtzeiat dtitalls; and has been accustomed to consider the taxes only as they-aired the price of article, of his daily corisump. tion, call. to mitht (for instance) the repeated • taxes upon wine, lie will probably reconnect t Pitt has ruined the wine trade," and, " the middling classes are beginning to think ale," were - common expressions in the year 1795, ' when a new .talt!of ten pounds were laid upon a pipe of port. But does he find tint! li , has since drank lesS wine, or that he meek with ale at the fahles'of his frtends? And 'yet he may also remember that Mr. Pitt vetittired to impose leo potions more in 179Ci.' And:hat in 1803 and 1804 succe s sive additions were, rtain made to the tax, and consequently In the pr,ce of wine. - . That in the course of the contest with nonce, wine should have again become a re.ooree, no.tnott, probably would hate ventured hi t 700: to predi , -.1.- 7 \Vine . had then reached." the uttutlL !huh. of Ahoti ;"—and so it bad; if we are to un.letstand by the, expression, only that at that Mottieut the all iele was not an available, or at least not an adVilable object of taxation: Without further details, .1 would wiilt the prig: and consumption of every article itL guneral nst iO be in like in3ntier'cons'ideied. It wilt be found that . upon no imi.ortant article [bete eluiptom of deertasing consumption. I cannot therefore' resist the ennvinion; that the only iontid,nian upon Which the (I.!sponders in fitiance ,r , .!st. their Opinion, is cipite oriNob,t;;;;li and:that the appeal which has been made 40 the h,s tery of our taxation within 1.8 years i.ught to pm duce a conclusion entirely opposite to that which Lord 'Grey has adopted. [ 71 be cora:med.] The report of a pßip'rial b.!;:ql .t un c l e by BV6NArARTE, io give the Unitedt gidies t.K) ships 'of the line and in trig3te,i, it go to war with this Contitr'y,- . ls not very probable. %Chew it two little in the way of linortAt'AitTv's generosity y first the .get t nig° the ships, and next the conveying them to Anielic4. l'ne people will rejoice to leant that Sit 4 Sins S'Y I Tit IS 9gain itbout to br appoint. dlO 3 command ; ,it will, of cou'rst., Ott frit as a fresh asinrance of national glory arrd advantagi., that he is again to bo afloat witii a powerful beet, to second the dittates of his intrepd split and discern. in mind. We re ret to state the clew!) of that at(iive and . ' aide Geneial MILLLIt, **II() St) alky led. a eivision of the Portuguese Militia. He was buried at Oporto on the oth ult, with utilitaty'hor.ours. A vt-siel is armed 'at a S6otclt port, whlCh' Charleston on tire sth ult. with a cargo. As she had began to load before the sect of Febtuiry, was permitted to complete her cargo,.but tit) Britist► vessel.- was to be ullOwed after. NAVAL •11. EMS. PLYMOUTH,. MARdir 6:—fiat back by contrary %ituis his Majesty's ship leis MARCH 7.—Put back by contrary winds, and wiAr the loss of liter fore-yard, his Maj...-sty's slip , Marlborough., of 74 guns. Arrived his Majesty's ship HerO,Of 7:1 gnus, trom BaNue Roads; and Orestes . sloop_ ot war from a cruise down the harbour and anchored in the Sound tile Ariel sloop 0( war. Sailed ‘a. cute' tor NlorlAix . .. - • CI4ATHAM, MAlta down the Riyer, to the Nore, his Majesty's s 1,401) 13e110 le and Urgent' .. R :r gim-brig. 'l't►e Leopard, of 5o guns, is commissioned at flits f ort by C.ipt. Dtt.i.orr, bra troop-ship. DEAL, MARCH 8.----Last night; after post, the Geprge, ERA NKLIN, drove oa shore on the Brake Sand, but wils soon got off by the assistance of the boatq from hence; and i 4 gone into Ramsgte with the loss of anchar and cables. The wind iy still so high that we can have no eomifinnieniien with the shipf.iiig in the Do ns, i.rtr. they all ride it out well. Five e'CloLk.—Quite moderate, and the ships u:I sale. LISBON MiLIL, Lisnotr, Fen. li.—Nub a WOrd'al new's. 'We are 1 toId'BUoNAPAIITE has Colletied a large force ... at Bayonne, which may. enable the enemy to keep,, their footing in Portugal, &la not get possession of Lisbon. Some tCrl. ws; skirmishes are all We hear of. A party of 11us.6rs have taken about a —scote 9f Frew:lam:a and their officer ; they have been sent, herr, and state, that occasionally' the French e 4 horse liesh. 'A Mr. GAANt 'lately placed himself with 80 Ordinauzas on the heights 'tient* Futi.)ao, through which tio F,reh.ch troops were to pass, and irt pertet 4 ..t safety killed 220 of them. Olditranzas are neither troops of the line nor Militia, but the inhabitants, assembled' With pikes, pokeFs,, — guns, Btc. There are gaatekeepers among them. Fan. i. 5.-011 the 12th instant artived . the packet Al VI all it), from Rio bringing letters doWer to the 2cl December. ,By„ them we have the great satisfaaion of knoWiliii, that ltts Serene: liighnesi' continues to enjoy epod health, as' ell us all 0,4 august Lundy. The marching, of the national guards of 'Fi ance, on account of :41 otleusive . war, theeeonseriptiun of 40,000 men fnr the sea ice, met leo i troe fur the land, itnikates some project of BUONAPARTE against the North or the East ut Europe. The war on the - Pettinsula Will, thereibre, again. he slaeltenecl on the part ut the Ftench, as during the time -of tho war Austria. • God grant that :in this epoth, may draw better results from it, and know how; t tcl improve 'itch happy opportunities, titan we did after the ever memorable battle of Talavera! In as relate, to the 'recut ting el 40,000 malinel,.and those which BUONAPARTE is piocuriog from the North, we hope they will meet with the Same rale attended the combined squadrons el France. and • Seam at the bottle of Trafalgar. A.:(tt.r a long interval, the periodical Papers from Astatn Galtieet hav'e reached us. In these ht ipripalities the war continues to wear a favourable aspect for the Spanish cause, . notwithstanding the ounterous ditlicelties with which the Aetutians Wye to struggle for Wint of provisions, tnoney, 'Some petty attacks take plactealmost every day, but on the '2Bth November 'these was a battle of more colasiderable importance As the setsol. Papers are not complete, we ate without that one in which . the first official tepott relative to the said action is con rainvil,' but we have a Second tiflici.ll despatch which is sufficient to inake'us Japanned with that battle. Pesicript..All accounts cbitfirm the great lass wlifell the ellen - 1y b:is sustained anti this instant I tsi iiituriued by 1 - A4rson of respattabilily, that flan) Tretuto more than goo wounded have been carried away dining I.lle thy ) that by the rbad.of Joao, they colledUcl upwards of eighty men. The troops are .ulready united, not fail to again press upon the etiemy. Second Postcritt.-- 7 1ii the. moment I was di#-' patching this account, Ireceived information from a Subject worthy 01' credit, stating, that theErench . ,calculate their,loss. ut 600 men, in killed, v.'rt.Anded, and primula, CATALONIA, NAlta A r nithe Occorrene hot vvk en our ArMy and that 01 the Enemy, in the int n ity 01 un the t6th ;11g. By Ad', ice' w bleb the (~etinial Chief ad in terim of -this army received the day bcfnie yoster. day, that the eneintes who had marched from Ileoti, in the direction of Valls, did not exceed 6000 in fat,try rind 300 cavalry, lie was determined to march Lirtmliiikpiasewitli the divisiona' he had in it, iti orders, at tile r,:ime, to Colonel SAng.cilii.i) 4 9 bt ruddy to auack tali Otte, c.Tvision under Lis; com mand, io combination with In tle.night . of the day beforc yesterday, the van guard of the . enemy's army marched forward to Pla, where they found and attacked SAR:FIELD, who maintained that attion; the particulars of which f are already!known. the General in chief • hoped for the trio,t happy restilts,lind again repealed his orders, - that early yesterday ,the eventy he attacked by the forces of all our divisioos.—Qum troops,. who were the preceding night plowed in aid settled point, coininencedtheir attack ,at the a.sigiie . d iiiiFill=gkord and . parties of the ltd 'Ontiiit - General opening their tire. The,,order. of our soldiers %t as so good that . they Compelled .the-enemy to . throw themselves into V.t]ls and "fire (rota the windows . of the 11 , )uses. Oar 4' troops were now going to open their lire through- exit the whole - line atill commence a general attack, ,; . when the General in Chief received infortnationfrom Gen.SmisFigt.D, saying, drat he was positively certain ,the rnomy were bet wean 14 and 15,00() strODZ, commanded by .Marshal MACDONALD ; that hesicits, a reinthreetnern of a column at infantry and 600 horse wete on their march from Lerida, %souk' shortly arrive at Momblano, and that in front of his d kion was posted a much more n umerous one, which occupied a large extent of ground, formed in orler of battle, and that at the:same time he observed the enerny,had four strong columns of troops to repel any ,attack, whicl), according to appeataitees, wen, , to ',his. l'hOugh the General was iikewts3 convinced of the trith of this information by other advices he, received at. the, Lune instant, he was not •entirely able 'to restrain the ardour of the troops, be at the same time Wistud,to save tbeiti from a' disgrace, as he observed tins enemy pretended to sly and retire in disorder to.a , strong position they bad on the ether. side of the valley, inviting our troops to thii point, hoping by bete means to deceive our troops and draw them forth r `into ataion. At. the same time the most . strfB• orders Sven, given throujb the . o.hole line, that too person should advance exce,.pt the. recenitoitring parties and the ad. vaticed -guards, thee and' all others di,ttnetly per ceived the butiierous* force of the ettemy,, who aee,tig his intention frustracd, at .d that the plan of hit. attack . must be varied, resolved to . attack immrdiately., and gtve orders that strong. columns should march to the right and Witt to surround . us, at :the :.atite time th It a very roes one pene.trated . by the centres, The Com. manderin Chief, - therefore, who, was anxious to preserve..this brave army for the salvation of the country, and was therefore unwilling to expose it .ill tout well founded hope of success, resolved to retreat in good order, and in eschell'ons, occupying successively advantageous positions, from which he kept up a brisk fire on the enemy, and convinced ,him' that our troops, though inferior in nunitirr, era much superior in - valour; and', equal, The retreat was ell'Oled in the bestorder without the loss of a singe trran,.and'it tilay be asserted with truth, that in this a4lion the enemy LEd not dieplo much ability, for ati-we were so near and so much inferior in numbers, they' ought to stave exerted all . their -:military talents, and . prevented any' one of us ,frotn , returning to this pine. Ge.peral •FAGRIII, a' Neapolitan', was wounded in. the action sustained.. by Don Poo SARSVPLD, in which we know.'that - a gr6itt number of pi i,on .ers were talien'frnin t h e enemy. We can likewise Oil, in, that, in the action of yatcrilay, they lust more than 200 men in killed, wontided, flntl pri. Mustc.- 7 -The third performance of the Vocal Concert under , the dirretlion ot.lVessrs. kiAttatsora, BA lITLEMAW, and GREATOR EX, drew a very :tamer. ous and elegant andiencv to the, 11.1novei ;square Rooms last night. The.:selettion was in scelksii,:okis. Several beautiful Gleeswernyerfortned 'with actintr• able etfeet: -11Anutte sores '."' See f rom t h e t il eat Grove" Was highly applauded for its chaste Skil* I.licity..-- , CATA LA NI Wll9 eticOred an 'E i t she led on " The Horse and his Rider " With veat spirit and energy. Mrs. BIANC4II and BLLLA my disting - uialiell themselves; 'the Misses Si t A p p c ,/ . fOtillW very ably in a duet tbr two' hail's. 'Mid ' , •stliole was worthy , if the able Professors by whom t Concert is conduaed. 'Atha ToWsey, .night-constlb!e of Christchnr4, wa!, conyitted in the peniliy of 401. and tt.r wiUttliy . so6ring.a tietertw . to escape who had t7t:en placed in his custody by sfSerjeant of th,.: Gnarl I, Roberts, the person who 'was lately td en u oo t charge of forgery nud confined in Newgate, has bcen 'removed to it Siursq.jaii,.prepsratory. to,riie cart. ing on .of hia in! tor litgivivarrobbery. This ib thy 33111 C man who contiived orakc; so trysteritos 'est:Opt:from Cold-Bat li-tioidi prison. COAL. MAttiiiiT.- MARCH 8. • :Ship, at Market. Ships so l d. Price. NeWCII4II.O • . 411 . 4 8 3. Ct.!. Rs •ci SolidialApd . . 4 • 4ie,S. td, t ,,, cd.