The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-08 00:00:00

FINANCES OF SPAIN.

The following Decree has been issued by the King of
Spain for the regulation of the finances of that kingdom t.„
In order that it may be known and calculated beforehand, by th,
year and the month, the revenues of the State, and that an
cut,
and proportionate distribution may be made btlween the dill
' obligations or the several departments, and that the expenditure
may also be regulated conformably to the income, and public and
private means, after having previously heard my Council of 11,1in4,,
ten, I have decreed as follows :
Art. I. Each Minister shall make annually, under distinct bead,
of disbursement, a Budget of those of his Department.
2. These Budgets shall be sent to the Minister of Finance, or
the latest, by the first of November.
3. The latter Minister shall make such observations on the said
budget as he may judge proper, and with a statement of the tut
revenue brought to the Treasury, which he shall have previoasl
called for from the Comptroller.lieneral ; he shall transmit them isl
the Council of 31inisters by the 14th of the said month of Norm,
ber, at the latest.
4. This Council shall examine the budgets, and make the
changes and retrenchments which may be desirable, and shall after
wards sendation. them t..) the Minister of Finance to be submitted for
myapprob
5. The budgets approved by me, shall be communicated to the
respective Ministers, to the Directors-General of the Treasury, ass
to the Directors-General of Disbursements.
6. These budgets shall not contain any provision for unfertiese
expenses. For these my Council shall set apart a sum en Nag
fur all the departments, but this shall not be touched without in,
authority, given on the representation of the Council of 31in440m:
7. All payments not comprehended in the budgets shall be We
gel and inadmissible, and the authorities who shall hare made
them, or the ordinance for them, shall be solely responsible tor the
reimbursement to the Treasury.
8. In order that the funds brought to the Treasury may, be equine
distributed among the obligations of each department, my Coosa
of Ministers shall, in every month, make a general distribution
of
the sums which the Treasurer-General will transmit monthly to
each department.

9. And in order that this distribution shall be made as closely
le
possible, the Minister shall cause to be transmitted, on the 25.11 or
each month, by the Comptroller-General of the public revetaa,
statement, by province and by class, of the net revenue paid into the
public chest in the preceding month, and another of these expected
in the cutrent month, explaining on what such caleulatims ace
founded , and lastly, a statement of the produce of the last mouth,
compared with that of the corresponding month in the precedingyeei.
10. The .Minister of Finances shall, besides, transmit by tile
Comptroller-General of Disbursements, a statement Ppecifying the
sums which were to be paid in the preceding month, those winch
have been paid, and the causes of the deficiency, if any, which
may remain. _ . .

I. The documents specified in the two preceding articlesdull
be sent to the Council of Ministers, witlt the obmervations which
may have been made on them by the 31inister of Finance, and the
•Council, on inspecting these documents, shall proceed to the dittri.
button ordered in article 8.

12. The differences between the receipts expected and thous
actually rcalistd, between the payments made and those which
ought to have been made, shall be adjusted in subsequent distid.
buttons in such a manner, that at the end of the year the receipts
of the Treasury and its payments shall be balanced.
13. The system instituted by this decree shall commence front
the Ist of next January.
14. A clear and simple account shall be kept by the Minister of
Finances of the following items :—The sum remaining in hand,
and the surplus of the contributions of the preceding year ; of the
revenues of the State, specifying their different branches; of the
actual sums annually sent to the Treasury, and likewise of those
received by separate departments; of the expenses of colkctioa
and administration, and only on the distribution by budget, sad
by the articles of the budget; in such a manner that the stale
of the Treasury may be instantly ascertained, and that of the
payments on the budget of each department.
15. In order that the accounts may be kept with exactness, usl
the details which have been set forth, the Minister of Finance shall
cause to be furnished to all the departments the whole of the data.
ments. and all the necessary instructions.
Given at the Escurial, Nov. 14,1825.
(Signed by the King's hand.)
To Don Luis Lopez Ballasteros.

LITERARY GLEANINGS.
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FOOTE.
Got ss were the mimic powers of Poore, they were
inferior in attractron to the charms of his conversation
ler ktoneess of his wit. The latter were so potent as
FoltfCrlle even the predeterinivation of Dr. J oIIN SON
9, obe pleased with them. Strong as his prejudice was,
Paim not bear up against she broad humour of the
s"-hib Aristophanes. The account of their first inter-
,, is
.;iven by Boswell. Dr. Johnson related it himself.
9, first time I was in company with Foote was at
cisserbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I
*Nenlved not to be pleased, and it is very difficult to
Jo a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner
,ley sullenly, affecting not to mind him ; but thc dog was
wry comical, that I was obliged to lay don n my knife
lfok, throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh
oi. Sir, it was irresistible."
Pours never spared any one whose
werer at the same time
„Tandy distinguished by station or character to make
3.0 p,jralar subjects of ridicule.
is we rear 1116, lie wrote an Afterpieee, entitled " The
Iwo to (*alas," in which he pourtrayed certain peculiar
attars in the character of the Duchess or KINGSTON,
(oat that tune was a topic of very general conversation
ikarats. The Duchess, when the report reached her,
1
Id her utmost influence against it, and finally pre-
-I,l;ed one as to prevent its representation. The follow-
s copy of the letter which FOOTE addressed to the
4, 3 C AAA is, on learning that an order nos
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hued for its suppression. It has all that poignancy of
doing, and archness of rebuke which characterised his
ms,
.g. Lonl-1 did intend troubling oury Lordship with
fan address ; bat the day after I received your pro-
digery misdate, 1 had the honour of a visit from Lord
gosirorrsav, to whose interposition, I find, I am in-
Amid for our first commands, relative to the ' Trip to
wag' by Mr. Cllctwynd, and your final rejection of it
if Odoael Keen.
ekes' Mountatuart has, I presume, told your Lord-
' that he read with me those scenes to which your
objected ; that he found them collected from
. nature, and applicable to none but those who,
Lord-
that
iousness, were compelled ro a self-applica-
nts. Ts such minds, my Lord, The Whole Deily of Man,
et to the Semi ‘Vritiego, is the severest satire that ever
• wrote ; and if Comedy directs not her aim to the
apasadt, her arrows are shot in the air ; for by what
Nebel no man, no man will be mended. Lord Mount-
ingessired that I would suffer him to take the play with
lie, led let hint leave it with the Duchess or KINGS..
too: he had my consent, my Lord, and at the same time
a ssiurauce, that I was willing to make any alteration
iit ber Grace would suggest. Her Grace saw the play,
pd, in consequence, I saw her Grace ; with the result of
Mt interview, I shall not, at this time, trouble your Lord-
nip. It may pee Naps be necessary to observe, that her
time could not di,ceru, which your Lordship, I dare say,
ell readily believe, a single trait in the character of Lady
LIM CIOCODILe, that resembled herself.
• After this representation, your Lordship will, I doubt
art, permit me to enjoy the fruits of my labour ; nor will
pstbink it reasonable because a capricious individual has
she it into her bead that I have pinned her ruffles awry,
art I should be punished by a poniard stuck deep in my
bet: your Lordship has too much candour and justice to
lid* instrumentof so violent and ill-directed a blow.
"Tour Lordship's determination is not only of the
reatest importance to me now, but must inevitably decide
of fate for the future, as, after this defeat, it will be im-
possible for me to muster up courage enough to face Folly
:gam: between the Muse and the Magistrate there is a
raters! confederacy ; what the last cannot punish the first
often eim-cts ; but when she finds herself not only de-
sated by der indent ally, but sees him armed in the de-
face of her foe, she has nothing left but a speedy retreat ;
*Aim then, my Lord, to the Stage. Vakat rev ludicra ;
to which, I hope, I may with justice add Plaudite ; as,
Vag my continuance in the sere ice of the public, I never
Titod by flattering their passions, or falling in with their
ravers ; as, upon all occasions, I have exerted my little
"ors (as, indeed, I thntight it my duty), in exposing
!",liev, how much soever the favourites of the day; and
r-ecious prejudices, however protxted and popular.
Z.-s, my Lord, has been done, if those may be believed
rsebare the best eight to know, sometimes with success ;
Oise add ton, that in doing this I never lost my credit
rth the public, because they knew that I proceeded upon
;r-eiple, that I disdained being either the echo or the in-
swum of any man, however exrdted his station, and
'sit I Never received reward or protection from any other
will titan their own.
" 1 have the honour to be, &c.
" SAUCES. room'.

1.1511104 V A NLR INTALLJGBNCL

Du Right Honourable John aid Lady Ann Beckett entertained
:4 Dales or York and a disiingui,hed party to dinner, yesterday,
sum holm in Drwoing-airett.
o..ntln 'ha, Esq., had a dinner racy yesierday, at his house
sCassa.strett.

is Duke or Norfolk left town on 'Monday for his scut, Arundel
Wt. Sow:.
.

_—..
pr aod— Lady Montague have left woo for their seat, Dittoo

T Ilesnmsnt, Esq., M.P., arrived yesterday at the Claren-
lislerl. fern Paris.
Tie Honourable 11 dliani llerrell arrived in town yesterda7,
ha Dover.
'l'4 Earl of Beshwrough has left town for his scat. Voehampton.
Vor.ant Bernard has arrived at his seat, in Ireland, item a
1/42.

Inrd Salley has anived at his seat, Next Dean, Sussex, from a
Ur.

Mr. sad Mrs. Lawrence have left Miller's Hotel, Jermyn.street,
art lir Item
toks. Lady. and Miss Campbell arrived yesterday at the
a'►:edoo Hotel; Jennyn•►treet. from Cheltenham. Departures
f.un ditts:—lit and ohs Aliases Spurting for their seat. Nor.
bey Park. t Captain Spurting, un a to,ll' 3 T. and G. Ala-
-14a.„ Este.. eel ilias Alamo, for their seat in Yorkshire ; and the
I'M J. ►:. iiisarmr, Sot Berkshire.

--
The Doke and Duchess of Clarence arrived at their re-
iirlice in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, yesterday morn-
Nn Bushy. Their Royal Highiiiisses dined with
o..:hes.s of Kent in the afternoon, at her apartments
"lit Ling's Palace, Kensington. The Duke and Duchess
siCatilCe afterwards returned to Rushy.
Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Tuesday
"flnaefor Beckenham.
iLertatzrer.—lt is this week our painful duty to re-
aril soy a/. tin most cruel Cain of sedection and elope-
Left that ever came ander our notice, and we trust, for
zen'er of human nature, such instances of depravity are
ter occurrence. The individual who has crmmitted
`+ outrage is a husband, and the father of a nume-
sa;initly—a man moving in a decent and reepeetaile
?err of life—a schoolmaster, encouraged for his learning
el talents, aril looked up to as a teacher of mor ility.
11. nee is itobzon, and the city of Durham is the scene
He came to that town, it seems, about
`•'ilytirs ago. its indifferent eirennistaaces. and from his
Ability and the so ivity of his manners, his school soon
'4.7.e the principal academy in the neight:•iurhoori. Ills
courted, and he gained the colitidence of the
citizens, with many of whom he lived on terms of
-j''T The astonishment then which was f‘lt in the
!.:1 °I Durham on Pi clay morning last, when it was known
he hal duped the night before, with a genteel and ac-
°pr`',4: 914esi young lady, about twenty years of age one of
pupils, the daughter of a respectable tra:lesman,
Ihe easily conceived. He has absconded, leaving a
sit
distress and difficulties, with six small children,
4sithout the means of supporting them. He is deeply
•.'('''4 in de t, and by eleven o'clock on Saturday morn-
:re were not less that 10 writs issued ont of the
f• of Pleas in Durham aeainst his goods. This un-
person alipears to be abot 43 years of age, and
4... tweed that he has gone with the unfortunate victim
Y'eduction, toAmecica, having with him, it is supposed;
-Ikrit—Ti
yMercury.
, e
u4Y a Court of Directors was held at the East
too 1 nous-, when the following Captains were sworn in-
lift!..earemand of their respective clips, viz.: Captain
~_"",-..-ntrie Hamilton, Dunks, and Captain Peter Came-
' lof Batumi, consigned to Bengal and China.

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