The Sun. — London, England, 1817-09-08 00:00:00

PAI•EIL TRAM ,, , OF IRELAND. From The (Ccrk.) Seuthervi Repeater, August M.] The following is a Daft of - the case svhieb has been made for the consideration of the Irish Go vernment, on behalf of the Paper Trade of this country. It was drawn up wider tlx:• instmetions of the Paper Manufacturers of Ireland, 14 'tlieir Counsel, ..VII-, 11*.txt4v-: 7 -, - That this interesting Morrill:tante is, and has been - u i p pressed by a weilit of neproductive la,XatiOP, to which at ;anticipate its s e r..edy extitietion. - lbw the decay of this trade was. considerably influenced by the nature and weight of the duty imposed, may he inferred from the facts which follow: The duty on Paper was first enacted in 1798, the dzity _on .the paper engine e,as next enacted in 1799, and the latter duty still further increasod iii 1900; and that during the pe ,thsa of these three enactments, the paper mills adjacent to Dublin were yedticed to half that number which they had attained in 1795. • • That during the See years which followed these enactments, no new mill was erected—no suspended one revived—and yet foi the forty years preceding these enactments, the paper mills adjacein. to Dublin had incr ease d to the ratio of two mills ter every three year during that period. That at the cOmmeneement of the•e enactments, the paper engines of this• Country amounted to nearly 150, but are now less than a third of that number. That there is no other manufacture which, in proportion to its extension, could produce by its taxation so little benefit to the revenue, or, by its encouragement, so much benefit to the country. That the Value of every manufaCture is compounded of tiro quantities—nameiy, the value of the materials necessary fur its production, and the value of the labour employed on the Material. That there is no other manufacture in .erimpol'ison, with . paper, of which so little of its Value belongs to the material; and so much of it consists in the labour, which converts a material, otherwise worthless, into its state of perfection. That for these reasons this manalacture ought to be an object of p irtienlar encouragement in a cOuntry disiniguished fur poverty-anti population. • That the suspension of a - paper engine withdraws food, on alt average, ft not less than 400 persons. That if as we believe) 100 engines have been suspended, since the commencement of these duties, that suspeosion must have added to the class of pauperism 40,000 individu a l s , and injured the revenue, by th e decrease of taxation on the numerous articles, which so many 'persons most have been thus disabled from constimieg, whilst the taxation for the year ending 18 t 5 did not produce to,uioi. That any possible improvement of the revenue on this ma- TinfaCteer can be no counterpoise for such a calamity. • That could the trade be revived to that degree of anima tion which it had attained individuals in its infant state, a-Jorge portion of these 40,000 would be restored to that comPetence and- self support, which belong to the em ployed classes of -the industrious, and the misery of the people proportionably relieted, and the various sources of taxation le-opened, which this over-burden of taxation had thus closed. That the number of engines which survive, still give sup roil to nearly 10,000 persons, and that these too must be - added to the class of mendieity if relief be refused to your memorialists. because prudence - must compel them to relin- Trish a trade to which they are now only bound by their ha bits, and in which they have seen, since these duties aummeu ced, twice their own number pulled down to ruin. That if any manufacture 'were more suitable to Ireland •than another, it might fairly be presumed to be that of. commodity whoSe exclusive components are labour and .rags. _ hat this rising manufacture was crushed in its infancy, by taxing it on a principle of analogy to England, an analogy which affected to equalize, but operated to,destroy all equality of pressure—lst, because our taxation. set off at the very paint in which it had aceuninlated in England, up to the sear 1795, and the Irish manufacture was 'Attired, in its in fancy, to carry the same weight-which tbeJkitish manufac ture had been inured to support, and was enabled to r stislain, by a lenient procesi of gradual taxation, during a lofig pre ;ceding- period , of growth and prosperity. And Idly, because _the capital and contincree of the sister country, with the age oilier establishments, and enterprise of her trade, had no 'corresponding - countervail, in a country unaided by must, if hot all, those advantages. That whilst this principle and nominal analogy appro priated to Great 13ritain,the neirhet of the world, fair policy might have so modified it, as to leave Ireland in possession of 'ter home market. That the imposition of an equal &ay in both countries, on paw:: by the pound weight, brought the British manufacture into the Irish market, under advantages not to be resisted, 'because the opulence of England supplies a finer material, and a demand for paper of a Goer quality; whilst Ireland, from her poverty, and the absence of her gentry, supplies a ' coarser material, and a demand for paper of a coarser qi;a lity ; and yet this taxation rejects all distinction of quality, and the powr country with its coarse material and exclusive deniand for the coarse commodity is eqqally taxed as the opu lent' country with its fine material and general demand for • coarse'and tine, and its admission•to the market of the world, and its protection against the world. • - • That the coarsest paper subject to the first class duty is equally taxed as other paper which is ten-fold its value% That a smaller duty an the pound weight in Ireland would bare been equal, in proportion to the price of the commodity, to a greater duty in the other country, because averaging the vice of paper manufactured in the bulk in both countries-the Irish is but hall the price of the - English, and yet both are eipsclly taxed. . That for an additional reason, a smaller duty in Ireland iv,infd have prodUced in proportion as much to the revenue as a greater duty in England; because England has a drawhack on her export equal to her duty, and as she has a considerable export, a large portion of the duty is thus paid back to the manufacturer, to encourage him and cherish the trade; for, of the duty which the revenue receives in England on paper, it can only retain the difference betweew the duty and the drawback ; but this is an advantage which can nevtr operate in Ireland in any considerable degree, because, though in point of law, we also have this drawback, yet in point of fact we have not the export, and therefore the legal benefit of tills drawback is to us a nullity, and the difference between England and Ireland is this, that in England the revenue of what it receives can only retain the difference between the duty and drawback, but in Ireland it retains all that it re ceives, and from our manufacture, so disproportionate in its • price to that of England, all the duty is absorbed, and no thing is returned. . l'llerefore, the revenue would gain more, by a less duty of Ireland, t ban by a greater on England. _ Tuatfor thesC rcasons this manufacture, though nominally taxed eqaally, is substantially timed unequally; but were it taxed in a just analogy to the value of the manufacture, and interest of the revenue, half the duty now paid in England on-tile pPnutl weight, would. give in Ireland a fair level to the tax,, and increased profit to the Exchequer. That this principle of analogy, which was the pretext for this tax, is thus clearly an unreal analogy; nor is it even a nominal one because ire have a tax in addition, which Eni.7,- land never had, and to make the analogy even nominally when their pound weight duty was imposed upon us, oftr en gine duty should have been imposed upon them. That by the lion-discriminating o p er ation of the pound weight (boy, the distinction of quality, so necessary for Ire laa'd, is avoided, and by the tion.iioposition of an English Eugine Duty, that necessary restraint on quantity is evaded Great Britain, by the first, has an advantage through the law, and by the second, she has the advantage of evading the law—by the first, the more favoured manu f acture is here admitted, and by the second, the contraband manufacture is not excluded. Thus the enactment of the .English pound weight duty, 'and the non-enactment of an English engine duly, combine to extinguish this trade in Ireland, for the first, in respect to our struggling manufacturer, secures th e predominance of the British trader, and the second, in respect to our solvent trader, secures the predominanc e of the British smuggler, and time compound effect of these two causes of enactment and non-enactment is this, that in the market, the fair British trader undersells the f a i r _ . Irish manufacturer, and the British smuggler undersells both. Finally, it is sehinitted, that if diffusion of eilneatioli in I fe kod he an ohjcia of jUsteOco:iragement, it must counter_ act this wise :tad I.) , nevOlent policy, to tax paper, the mate rial of education, to a third of its valud, and that the saute cau4e which has so nearly destroytsd the manufacture so in tercstintz and iiiipottant tq the pursuits of industry and edu cation, which so swot must convert those edifices of indiutty, itt which st.e have •entharked our hope and fortunes, into other tousttnueuts .nat.ional-decay, this cause of this-ruin, which: it not coirceted, must soon .convert the thousands whom we feed into idlers and paupers, this sane cause must alike-ope rate to obstruct knowledge, ;sad decrease revenue, as it does to rum your Memorialists. We received yesterday and this morning the Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday last. From the former we give extracts in our last page. It will be seen that there is another obscure al lusion in them to the state of Lyons, where we are told the intelligence of the approaching ar rival of MARMONT produced the best effect. This phrase can of course, only mean that considerable discontent existed at Lyons, and as it would seem also, at Grenoble, to which MARMONT'S command extends. Our Readers will, of course, recollect, that not long since there were great disturbances bosh at Lyons and Grenoble. With respect to the former place, it was main tained, on the part of the Government, that the tumults originated merely in the high price ofprovi- sions; nhilst it was strenuously urged, on the other hand, by the Ultra-Royalists (as they are called) and their Party, that these disturbances were the result of a deep-laid and extensive conspiracy against the Bourbons. The truth probably, as in most cases, lies mid-way between the two extremes It is clear, that the discontents at Lyons cannot be solely attributable to the high price of pro sions, the appointment of ,Aittrimotyr, and the obscure paragraphs inserted in theJournals,plainly shewing that the discontents remain after all as signable cause,on account of the dearness ofarticles of suilsistence, has ceased to operate. Th e r e must, therefore, be some political motives operating to produce that state of agitation which appears to exist at Lyons, and they can only be found in something of the nature of a conspiracy, the ex , tent of which, however, has probably been mitch exaggerated, in consequence of the subject hav ing been rendered a party question, and dis •euss'ed with the greatest bitterness and warmth, The Government have certainly been :obliged at List to acknowledge, that the spirit .prevailing at Lyons and Grenoble is something beyond a mere tumultuary impulse,' on account of the high price .of wain, but it may surely by sviae Ana tenient ItlCasnics pl"'eVelit 0115 spirit non brea s icin g out into open insurrection Tile American Stinadron in the Mediterrane-an vsls- spill in the Port of Naples on the (JO% It. is now•said, that the Duke of WELLii•liztort was to review, on Saturday last, near Valen ciennes, th e Eugliit, Hanoverian, and other troops, and that the King of Prussia was to be present. The following are extracts from the Journals of Friday : " PARIS, SEPT. s.—Some of the German Jour nals assert, that Lord Strangford, the new English Minister to Sweden, is expressly commissioned to demand of the Court of Stockholm the adoption of a system less rigorous towards English com merce. " The Prince de Talleyrand arrived the 27th ult. at Toulouse. " FIVE PER CENTS. " Wednesday, 63f. 65c.—Thursday, 681. 65c " LEIPSIC, Auc. 24.—The nagociations be tween the Prussian and Saxon CoMmissioners, on the subject of the arrangement of the respective relations arising out of the flivision of Saxony, have been carried oar for some time with the greateit activity, according to formal orders received by the respective Commissioners from the Courts of Berlin and Dresden. They have now adopted the system of concluding separate conventions, respecting All the objects on which they are hither to agreed. When the whole is concluded, these separate . Conventions will be converted into a general Convention. Several Conventions, re specting financial objects, have been already con cluded. • " There is also a report of new propositions exchanges made to our Monarch, and of a forma refusal on the part of his Majesty. This, liciw• ever, we do not believe. 'rue Count de Dillon, French Minister to our Court, has proceeded with his family to Carlsbad. " ZURICH', Auo. 20.—The Deputies of the Catholic Cantons have again assembled, to take measures in order to obtain the restitution of the Swiss Eecksiastical foundations at Milan and in s Lombardy. " Madame de Krudcner, who, after being con ducted to Constance, re-appeared in the environs of Schaffhausen, has been conducted by the Police Officers. of that Canton to the frontiers of Upper Swabia. " VIENNA, AVG. 25.—The Emperor and Em press arrives! on the 17th inst.. at Clausenberg, the seiit of Government in Transylvania. " CONSTANTINOPLk, AUG. I.—Two Couriers, from the Paella of Egypt, have arrived here with intelligence of a victory obtained over the Wecha bites. They are also the bearers of several sacks of ears cut from the vanquished. This' victory is not of great importance, but it proves that all the reports of a revolt at. Cairo are without foun dation. " The English Ambassador, Sir P.obert Liston, has returned to this capital from London." • A Hamburg!, Mail aritived last niglit, by. which we have further accounts, and in tome respects . contradictory (particularly as compared, with the narrative in the Paris Papers) of the origin:of the riots at Breslau. It will be seen brat' an Income Tax has been introduced into Hanover. The contents of this Mail ►gill be tot ad in our last page. Sir THOMAS BERNARD, it is said, is now visiting lie several Salt Mantddetories, «•itlia view to ob- ain such a knowledge of facts as may enable him to advocate a repeal of the SALT DUTIES in the next Session of Parliament. It is said also that this Gentleman expects that then such repeal will actually take place ; but from all the inquiries wt)ich we have been induced to make into 'the matter, we h ave not . , the,slightest reason to be,. lieve, that the views of Government are at all altered on the subject, or that there is any inten tion to propose even a modification of the Salt Duties, in the present financial State of the Country• There was an account of av Insurrection at Lyons in an Evening Paper of Saturday last, which excited much conversation and Maim throughout the town.. We have inserted the - article in ano ther part of our Paper, but as the French Jour- nals are silent upon the subject, the report seems to have gained little credit. After the intense agitations of a protracted war, and the. varlets of important and interesting events which Recom- patsy it, die return to a time of peace temlN to produce langnor all but tie trai li ng and manufacturing parts of tire community, and therctote at sneh thilES it seems to have been de eme4 l necessary by the Conductors of poli tic Journals to " elevate and furprite" oc casionally, by reports calculated to draw attention to their cOlunin. Citii:Xents ttri HICIII that the are less credoliius th A n !Let used to be, ;nid conseittently receive tho , e (Rents with caution and distrust. We presffilici however; that in this instance the Editor has bet'' ithptised tikni altogether, or that if there was a il foundatiiin for the rumour in- question, it 0 5 grossly ekAggerziteil bx, his correspondent. VISCOUNT SaiNiouTit.—lt is with much plcE sure we learn; that this Nobleman, in the coolie Of his tour, has reteii , ed the sathe diaiks of public respect at Worcester, Eyestrain, and Tewkesburp a's did so much honour to the Corporatiol' and City - of Hereford. It should lie observed, that this Nobleman bad no pCPaot►al Connotioll with any of "these places', slid that the tfibute of esteem and regard which he received Was pal(' to him wholly on public grounds, from which jC may fairly be inferred that the measures of that Administration, of which his Lordship forms so distinguished a part, are gratifying to the CountrY in general. A Flanders Mail received last night couttins th following article : ` 4 BRUSSELS, SEPT . 4.—We reported in oor ot the Ist, the conclusions ot the public affair between the Duke ot ‘VELI.INGTON and Editor of the Journal of East and West Flanders. One of . our Papers gives to-clay those of the Avon 6 (Counsel) VAN HOVE, for his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON rpartie against the said- Editor. This Avoue . required that the 'Fri,. burial shOuld be pleasertto condemn Sieur GvtsJ 'LAUME DEBUSSCHER pay him (without, how ever, believing.the_reparation proportioned to the offence), the,sum of 10,000 ...Dutch florins, as &v. wages for the facts on which the action is found ed, his Gracereserving to himself to dispose of the same sum. as be shall see good, according to the . determination which. humanity shall dictate to' him he demanded fiirther, that the "sentence slibuld be printed to the number of 2,000 copie4, at the expellee of tii - e said GUILLAUMF, DEBUSS;* CHER, to be posted up wherever his Grace shall think proper in this kingdom; lastly, he demanded that the said Sieur DEBUSSC(IER be condemned la the 'costs." THE Ktr.slTG'S licavrit.---Yestertlay the follow ing Bulletin was exhibited at St. T,lmes's Polar? of the state of the KING'S healtli p to the Nobi lity ? Gentry, and Public at large " is indsor Castle, Sept. 6, 1317. . . " His Majesty has passed the last month in a s tranquil and comfortable state. His Majesty's 'disorder contihnesunaltei; cd,.bOt.his r Majesty's health is.good. ' : ' "H. H.ILFORD, ".1. WILLIS, "I‘l. f3AILLIK, " R. WILLIS." " W. HELIERUEN . . . . On Friday evening the PaiNce REGENT, at. tended by Mr. WATsort, left town for Brighton, and arrived at the l'avi;ion on Friday night. Royal Ilighne,s is expected to einhirk in the Royal George yacht on a cruise to the. Isle of Wight. Saturday afternimn the Royal George yacht, the Hon. C HARLES PAGET, awl the Ineon stain. frigate, Sir JAMES YE°, s , tiled for Veriv.hton to attend on the PEI NCE REGENT. An e X Feta.* lion prevailed at - Portsmouthr o;) Saturday atter-- noon, that the' PEINcE REGENT would arrive in that town yesterday in the yacht.- A saline of 21 guns, will anirounce this event, should tire yacht appear it) sight with the standard flying. Lord , EXMOUTH, it is said, is appoltittd C 9111.• mander-in-Chief at Plymouth, in the room of the. late •Sir JOHN DUCK WORTH, Bart.; Mr. GRIMES to be.hi . s Lordship's Secretary.--(Press) FAGEL, Ambassador front the King of the NETHERLANDS ) is daily-expected in town hum the Continent. We -are hippy to• -find that • the garrison .amt town of Gibraltar' remain perfectly healthy ;' the letters received yesterday are of the 14th ult. The communication with ;Spin remained . perfectly 'free. Froin the strict quai : antiime enforced, th, , im i was little fear entertained of the fever bein i ; iu :troduced frotn - M , Tiers. • The LOED LIEUTENAN T will shortly quit Ir e -. land: The greate r • part of.. his baggage Is as con. veyed Co the Custom-1-I,uuse all Moziday prepdratoi - y'fo its being shipped for •Eitgland.— tiis'ExcetLExicv, as a proof his desire to -courage the trade of Ireland, takes tvich hilts 'two OE three: thousand_ pounds worth of Irish , , We are sorry to learn, that the account, given in our last, of the death.of the. Dowager Marcito-, hess of SLIGO is fully eontirint.A. . _ -We are thuch Concerned to state, that as Mr. EIC:SKISSON WUS Oil his return front his antituil Sur veV of the New Forest, on Pitirsday afternoon, between flavant and Enisworii, the axle-tree of' his carriage broke, by which accident the vehicle tviii overturned, and the right raw of L'S"• KISSON 'sc.vercly-fracuirvd. • ‘A . enthi welt, Wilt) accompanicci hint, escaped unhurt. The eit.zeiss of Chichester,. Who are greatly attached to their Repreentative, nianitesteh the utmost concern 011 . hearing of the accident. Frnm the 19th to tlic 27th August twenty-three packet-hunts have , arrived at Calais from Dover, with 692 passtugers ;' aod t weinv-eight pocket ()oats have from Calais to Dover, contain irt. 44.4 . person. Yesterday Thanksgivings were offered ttp in the different Cloirch<-s and Chapels of the Metropolis tar the favourable state of the weather. The General Court Martial, which assembled at. Portswouil l oil the 4lb instant, for the trial of Lux.F. ALEN, C. B. of the 55th itegimetit, has been called on charges exhi t)i:ol.• against that. ()dicer by Major-General • BAYLY—but supposed to he at Iris express desire. The Lientenant-Co,,ritel appears to be unassisted by. any legal advise, an Oil - leer of ins Regiment attends for the purpose of making notes of 04' proceedings. PRIVATE COIIItESPONDENCt. PAR'S, Sari. Mini3try have eititsed the publication of a pamphlet, el " Guide to the Electors." It is intended to prepare their minds, in a ministerial sense, for the enduing elec tions. This pamphlet is written with great mo deration, and has for a motto, " An sit aliijuid in nostris.conciliis, liceatque inter abruptam con . tumeliame et &forme obsequilim pergere iter pe rirtrlis The publication of a pamphlet of Benjamin Constant, on the elections, is an r,,nneed. Chateanhriand i who has returned to Paris, likewise, is preparing a itew political wink. The history of the Session of the Chanibers of 1816, by M. Fiev4r, is to apptar in a few days.. It is said that the financial sitnation of France is disrussid by him in that Ivor); with great sagacity, FRANKFoRT, AUG.' 81.—The cbaucellor of State, -Prince Hardenberg, and the Princess his wife,- have arrived here. M.' de Schankman, Prussian Minister ofi, the interior, and M. de Bo gen, Prussian Minister of war, have been at Co bleat z for ten days past. They wait there his Prus sian al4j r sty. These Ministers have met for the purpose of arranging on the spot several impor tant points regarding the administration of the ' Prussian Provinces on the Rhine. CONsT4NTUNOPLE, Auo. I.—The news of the disgrace of Kiaja Hey, Minister of the Interior; is confirmed. Tire Grsnd Seignior has : deposerl him as incapable of the duties of his office ; but he ;s rathef.the victim of public discontent, procee& ink; from the dearth of provisions. The price of bread has now fallen in consequence of the exer tions of Government. NEXT WEDNESDAY THE LOTTERY WILL BEGIN AND FINISH—ONLY i,900 NI T NIBERS—FORTIVHOI.7- SAND POUNDS MAY BE GAINED BY ONE NUM BER !---PRIZES ALL STERLING MONEY. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed on Saturday Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE.—The School for Scandal : Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Munden: Lady Teazle, Mrs. Davi son. After which, Past Ten o'Clotk, and a Rainy Night. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYmtatieT.--Teazing Made Easy: Prin cipal Characters by Mr. Terry and Miss Matthews. 'After. which, The Actor of All Work. To which was added, Ma trimony, New THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.—The Elec tion : Mr. Baltimore, Mr. H. Johnston ; Miss Charlotte Freeman, Miss Kelly. After which, Fire and Water. To which was added, My Uncle. MAILS. Am:wk . :D-1 France, 't Flanders, I Hamlnirgh, 9 Dublin, 2 Waterford. DUE—i LiShrill, i Guernsey and Jersey. PRICE Or THII DAY AT ry Dank Stick, shut 3-per Cent. Red shut 8 per Cont. lions • 79 i 4i 4 per Cents . 5 per Cent. Nary Ann. 1041 I STOCKS tveLvr. o'ci.octz. Bank L. Ann..... ..... India 80nd5,... 72s. pr. Exch. Bilk, ißs. 21s. Q.ss. pr. Cons. for Octoher, 801 i 80 Areraze Price of Brown or nascorad,l Sugar, enmputed fro?►► the. Returns made in the week euding the 3d day of September, 1817 : is sas. Ofd. per cwt. ' 11rGt3 wATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE To-Mouttow. Uurning, 59 initiutes after 12. I Evening; 23 minutes after THE SUN. •OLEM Qt 7 1 .5 DICERE rALstiv AUUE:IT• LONDON,,. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1817: L uce, til e bo 1 7Prci ' ! lend! 0 04. : C OT k en `l t 444 0 P "%L. and p , den pa Illa il at e `JEP] 117 'itei 'liAtu tr)- (ifty I.4ll tilit thie. tiro te r pat to,) In 114 1141 411 %NIT r, ‘Atil(it The Cn►~~7 l?'oce (Pee - e s t n ,)/th, to!) ; ( )rtin PA L a tedi Yi, hill kith Ahnu Lire latm c At Pi, 1 110111 E, (6 T. secutul - I) zAi X jib We ; e Ti tl) e 0 1 , f r • i nter day 4 Lt, flt( % Vo w Whit